Trump pledged to reveal the ‘truth’ about JFK, UFOs and Jeffrey Epstein… which secret will he expose first?

Donald Trump promised to get busy remaking the US in his image from his first day in office after his election victory over Kamala Harris.

Many policies on his wide-reaching agenda, though radical, cover bread-and-butter issues like immigration, the economy, and education.

He vowed mass deportations for undocumented migrants and asylum-seekers, a worrying purge of the public service, and controversial tariffs on China.

But Trump also made other promises from the unconventional to the bizarre that he may or may not implement, but will certainly be talking points from day one.

Declassifying JFK assassination files

The assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, has fascinated the American public for decades – even after the Warren Commission ruled shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

The secrecy around the investigation and claims of other gunmen and plots by the CIA, Cuba, and the Soviets fueled persistent conspiracy theories.

In 1992, a law was brought in which declared that all the documents about the assassination should be made publicly available by 2017, by which time Trump was in the White House.

About 320,000 files were supposed to be released, but the law allowed officials to postpone some of them on privacy and national security grounds.

Trump delayed the release of some documents until 2021 for those reasons, and released another 19,045 in 2018 with redactions.

Joe Biden again delayed the release of those files, but made about 13,000 more public over the course of his presidency so far.

But after securing the endorsement of Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is JFK’s nephew, Trump promised to make all the rest public and pledged to do so ‘early’ in his presidency.

‘This is a tribute in honor of Bobby. I will establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts, and they will be tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,’ he said at a rally in Phoenix in August.

RFK Jr believes the CIA was involved in his uncle’s murder and wants the files made public to prove it.

Trump said the new commission would investigate all presidential assassination attempts, including his own.

He reiterated his plan to release the JFK documents on a podcast with right wing personality Lex Fridman on September 3.

‘They also are pushing me on Kennedy, and I did release a lot, but I had people come to me and beg me not to do it. But I’ll be doing that very early on,’ he said.

‘Kennedy’s interesting because it’s so many years ago. They do that for danger too, because it endangers certain people, etc etc.’

Trump previously said he got a lot of pushback in his efforts to declassify the files when he was president.

Gerald Posner, who wrote the 1993 Kennedy assassination book Case Closed, said wasn’t so sure Trump would follow through.

‘You had an opportunity to do it, you said you were going to do it, and you didn’t do it,’ he told the Washington Post. 

‘Now, with the RFK Jr endorsement, maybe that’s a quid pro quo, and maybe this time he’ll actually do it.’ 

Exposing the ‘truth’ about UFOs

Trump claims the question he is asked most about his time in office is what he learned about extraterrestrial contact.

He was asked on the Fridman podcast if he would ‘help push the Pentagon to release more footage (of UFOs), which a lot of people claim is available’.

‘Oh yeah, sure, I’ll do that. I would do that. I’d love to do that. I have to do that,’ he replied.

Trump’s comment, along with his history of giving credence to UFO theories, sparked excitement about what he would expose.

UFO ‘expert’ Nick Pope claimed there was a ‘strong possibility of bombshell UFO information being released’ next year.

‘It’s the perfect storm: a maverick, populist President in his second term, and – thus – not up for re-election,’ he told The Mirror.

‘For those in the UFO community who believe there’s been a decades-long conspiracy to cover up the truth about an alien presence, Trump in his second term offers the best-ever hope for pushing back against the Deep State and delivering Disclosure.

‘I believe Trump views the subject in the same way as he views the JFK files, where, if there’s top secret information still being withheld, it should be declassified and released.’

Trump has on several occasions claimed American military pilots shared UFO sightings with him that they couldn’t explain.

‘I have met with pilots… they are not conspiratorial, they are not crazy, and they tell me stories that they’ve seen things that you wouldn’t believe,’ he said in June.

He told influencer Logan Paul that he believed there was something out there.

‘It’s very possible there is something. And why wouldn’t there be? You look at the universe and you see all of the different planets and you see… look, here we are, one relatively small planet. 

‘Why wouldn’t there be, on a planet that’s 400 times the size? Why wouldn’t there be something, somebody?’ 

This position is still very different to believing aliens have actually visited Earth, and the CIA’s official position is still that they have not.

Trump elaborated on his UFO thoughts in his podcast with Joe Rogan, again citing conversations with pilots.

‘I interviewed a few people, it’s never been my thing, I have to be honest. I have never been a believer,’ he said.

‘So I interviewed jet pilots that say they saw something. If you saw them you’d love to have them [on your show]…that were solid people, perfect, great pilots, everything. 

‘And they said, ‘we saw things sir that were very strange, like a round ball that wasn’t a comet or meteor, it was something and it was going four times faster than an F22, which is a very fast plane. 

‘And it was round, which in theory is a great shape [for flying].’

Trump added that while the sighted UFOs ‘could be’ drones or Chinese spy balloons, he remained swayed by the eyewitness accounts of the fighter pilots he spoke to. 

He added: [They are] solid, beautiful people. [They said] this is something sir, this is something. They’re not conspiracy guys.’

Releasing the ‘Epstein files’

Many Trump fans, including Elon Musk, want him to release all documents relating to the investigation of billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein, who hung himself in jail, flew numerous well-heeled friends to his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, where some of them sexually abused children.

The billionaire was known to have many famous friends and acquaintances in Hollywood, politics, and business, and many Americans want to know their level of involvement in his dealings.

Some documents became public last year from a defamation case with his alleged victim Virginia Roberts in 2015, but no one famous was incriminated.

There are rumors of a ‘client list’ but it has never been proved to actually exist.

Trump was asked abut released Epstein-related documents during the Fridman podcast, including if the supposed ‘client list’ would be made public.

‘It’s very interesting, isn’t it? It probably will be, by the way, probably,’ he said.

‘I’d certainly take a look at it. Now… Kennedy is very different from the Epstein thing but I’d be inclined to do the Epstein. I’d have no problem with it.’

Trump appeared more cautious in another interview, wary that people could be smeared by potential lies contained in the files.

‘Yeah, yeah, I would. I guess I would because… I think that less so because, you know, you don’t know you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that world,’ he said.

‘But I think I would or at least… Yeah I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others (the JFK assassination and 9/11 files).’

Trump himself knew Epstein and was photographed with him, but has consistently downplayed his involvement.

‘I’m not involved. I never went to his island, fortunately, but a lot of people did,’ he said on the Fridman podcast.

However, hours of recorded interviews with Epstein by author Michael Wolff, who interviewed the billionaire for his Trump book Fire and Fury – well before his hideous crimes were exposed – told a different story.

Epstein, in the recordings given to the Daily Beast, called Trump his ‘closest friend’ and spoke extensively of their relationship. 

‘Freedom cities’ and flying cars

Trump, in a March 2023 campaign ad, said he planned to build 10 new cities on federal land he referred to as ‘freedom cities’.

‘In other words, we’ll actually build new cities in our country again,’ he said. 

‘These Freedom Cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact, the American Dream.’  

Trump waxed lyrical about how past generations had ‘big dreams’ and pursued impossible projects, but the country had ‘lost its boldness’.

‘Under my leadership, we will get it back in a very big way. If you look at just three years ago, what we were doing was unthinkable, how good it was, how great it was for our country,’ he said.

‘Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living.’

The freedom cities plan hasn’t been mentioned since then, and may go the way of another bizarre idea from Trump’s first term – buying Greenland from Denmark.

In the same video Trump said he planned to fill American driveways with flying cars and declared ‘America, not China, leads the revolution in air mobility’.

‘Dozens of major companies in the US and China are racing to develop vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles for families and individuals,’ he said.

‘Just as the United States led the automotive revolution in the last century, I want to ensure that America, not China, leads this revolution in air mobility. 

‘These breakthroughs can transform commerce, bring a giant infusion of wealth into rural America, and connect families and our country in new ways.’ 

Some companies are working on these projects, but they are a lot further off than the end of Trump’s second term, if they are ever feasible.