There are many reasons to be disappointed by the Trump presidency, but here's one you may not have thought of: We now know definitively that there are no aliens. I mean, aliens may exist, but no one on this planet knows about them. The reasoning is simple: if the U.S. government was sitting on secret evidence of aliens - say, from Roswell - then they would have had to tell Donald Trump about it when he took office. And there's no way he could sit on a secret like that.
You know that would be on Twitter within the first month. At the very least, there'd be some hint of it. Say, he responds to a "small hands" joke with "hey, I've seen gray dudes and they have some really small hands."
Okay, maybe he'd leak it, but only to the Russians. But even then we'd see some evidence of it. You know, Putin annexes New Mexico, or announces a new fighter plane that's suspiciously saucer-shaped.
Just to be clear, I never thought that there was secret knowledge of aliens. But a part of me sort of hoped that there was something to it. But now I know it's nothing, it's disappointing. That's sort of emblematic of this administration, to reveal unpleasant realities. Losing faith in humanity was worse, but now I've even lost faith in aliens.
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