The truth is out there.
Former President Barack Obama said that aliens are real but he has no idea where they are during a podcast appearance released Saturday.
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama told YouTuber Brian Tyler Cowen after he asked him about extraterrestrials.
The former president did not offer any further details on what he mean by “real” — and no follow-up questions on the topic were asked — but he used the appearance to cast doubt on several longtime theories as to where they might be.
“They’re not being kept in Area 51, there’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States,” Obama said.
Barack Obama unleashed a blistering warning about America’s collapsing political standards after President Donald Trump shared a video depicting him and Michelle Obama as apes.
Obama said that American political discourse had descended into a degrading ‘clown show’ that most Americans still find ‘deeply troubling’.
The former president’s remarks came after Trump earlier this month reposted a meme video on Truth Social that included a segment showing the Obamas’ faces superimposed on ape bodies.
Such imagery has long held racist overtones and sparked bipartisan condemnation, forcing the White House into damage control.
Asked directly about the episode during an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama did not mention Trump by name in his response, but delivered a sweeping rebuke of the tone and tactics that now dominate modern politics.
‘First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling,’ Obama said.
‘It is true that it gets attention. It’s true that it’s a distraction… you meet people… they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and there’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television.’
His intervention marked his most direct public comments since Trump shared the incendiary video, which some critics described as one of the most racially offensive social media posts shared by the president.
Former President Barack Obama criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ conduct in Minnesota as dangerous, saying “the rogue behavior” is akin to what “we’ve seen in authoritarian countries” and “in dictatorships.”
The comments, which came during a wide-ranging interview with liberal podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen out Saturday, are the latest example of the former president reneging on his long-standing strategy of minimizing his public presence to allow the next generation of Democrats to emerge. He deliberately took a back-seat role during former President Joe Biden’s term.
Obama, who has previously criticized President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal agents to US cities, called the actions of immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota “deeply concerning and dangerous.”
The sweeping immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, which saw the deployment of roughly 3,000 federal agents, has been hallmarked by numerous videos showing federal agents’ aggressive tactics and confrontations with the public.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/politics/obama-minnesota-ice-operation-dictatorships