In 2017, the New York Times published an explosive report which stated that the Pentagon has carried out a secret program named AATIP (Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program) to know more about UFO sightings. Soon, To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences released two video clips that showed UFOs screeching across the skies at a breathtaking speed, as they were trailed by US Navy jets.

The videos soon went viral, and soon Pentagon admitted to having carried out AATIP. Later, Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher revealed that these clips are real, and they were not manipulated. However, he made it clear that these footages were not supposed to be released in the first place.

Earlier, this year, Pentagon officially released their videos, and many people still believe that it was the first step towards alien disclosure, which is basically a gradual process.

And now, Donald Trump’s comments on aliens, and his remarks on America’s military might have made many people believe that the President has actually threatened extraterrestrials.

On Sunday, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump about his views on UFOs, and asked him why the Department of Defense has set up a UFO task force.

“Well, I’m going to have to check on that. I mean, I’ve heard that. I heard that two days ago. So I’ll check on that. I’ll take a good, strong look at that,” replied Trump.

He soon started talking about the country’s powerful military and weaponry. As the president talked about the military as a reply to a query related to aliens, several social media users have started claiming that the president’s words are an indirect threat to aliens planning to invade the planet.

“I will tell you this, we now have created a military the likes of which we’ve never had before, in terms of equipment. The equipment that we have, the weapons that we have, and hopefully — hope to god we never have to use them. Russia, China, they’re all envious of what we’ve had. All built in the USA, we’ve rebuilt it, $2.5trn. As far as the other question, I’ll have to check on it. I heard about it two days ago actually,” added Trump.

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Harris’ first name is pronounced KAH’-mah-lah or, as she explains in her biography, ‘comma-la,’ like the punctuation mark.”

But mispronunciations have been rampant in the days since the California senator became the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman named to a major party’s ticket. Pence referred to her as kah-MAH’-lah, putting his emphasis on the second syllable, at events last week.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel did the same on Wednesday, as did Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday, the day after Harris delivered a prime-time speech accepting the Democratic nomination a speech he indicated he watched.

Harris’ supporters say the pattern amounts to a deliberate effort by Trump and his allies to portray Harris the daughter of immigrants as someone who does not belong at the top ranks of politics.
The mispronunciations follow a string of attacks that include racist and sexist memes and questioning about whether Harris, who was born in California, is eligible to serve as vice-president because her mother was Indian and her father Jamaican. (Constitutional scholars and other legal experts say there is no question that she is eligible.) It is an effort to diminish her, said Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund. It’s designed to signal difference. Trump campaign officials did not immediately respond to questions about the errors.

To be sure, Harris isn’t the only politician who has watched other politicians and voters trip over her name. Former President Barack Obama, whose father was from Kenya, used to crack jokes about being a skinny kid with a funny name.

Former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, whose father was from Malta, went mostly by Pete though his campaign made posters, chants and T-shirts with the pronunciation Boot-Edge-Edge. In the introduction to her biography, Harris says her name means lotus flower.

It’s a symbol of significance in Indian culture, she wrote, noting a lotus grows underwater, its flower rising above the surface while its roots are planted firmly in the river bottom. When she first ran for the US Senate, her campaign produced a video with small children demonstrating the proper way to say her first name.

But her defenders say Harris is well past the point of introduction especially with Republican opponents. Harris served as California’s attorney general for seven years before being elected to the Senate in 2016. Since then, she’s made headlines for tough questioning of Trump appointees and raised her profile even more with her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

And even before she was elected to the Senate, Trump knew who she was, he donated to her 2014 campaign for attorney general.

Yet, Trump has continued to get her name wrong, as have his allies.

Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani called Harris Pamela during an appearance on Fox News. Pence mispronounced her names multiple times during a stop last week in Iowa, where he warned a cheering crowd that the November election isn’t about a choice between Republicans and Democrats or conservatives and liberals.

I think the choice in this election is whether America remains America, he said, going on to mispronounce her name moments later.

Pence pronounced Harris’ name correctly during an appearance on Fox News on Friday, hours after the exchange between Louis-Dreyfus and Yang.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson grew agitated when a guest corrected him last week after he also pronounced Kamala incorrectly. So what? he said, before mispronouncing her name again and complaining about liberals being too sensitive.

McDaniel also got the pronunciation wrong earlier this week during an appearance on Fox News, even though the host questioning McDaniel was saying it correctly.

Many people, particularly people of colour, relate to Harris having her name mispronounced because they face the same situation in workplaces and elsewhere, said Goss Graves. She’s grappled herself with people mispronouncing her first name it’s fah-TEE’-mah and whether, or when, to correct them.

But it’s a very different thing, she said, to be a candidate for one of the highest offices in the world and have your colleagues and members of the media repeatedly mispronounce your name or not care enough to get it right.

When people are running for the highest levels of government, there’s an expectation they will be afforded with dignity and respect, she said.

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