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Stephen Colbert forced Barack Obama to confirm if aliens are real or not.
The Late Show host urged the former president to “just come clean” about what he knows about extraterrestrial life.
Obama swore that if the U.S. government had an alien or alien spaceships, or even knew about their existence, that intel would have already leaked.
Stephen Colbert refuses to end The Late Showwithout finding out exactly what Barack Obama knows about aliens.
The late-night host grilled the president on his knowledge of extraterrestrial life on Tuesday’s episode, more than two months after Obama made headlines for claiming that aliens were real but that he had never encountered one.
When urged by Colbert to “just come clean” about the existence of the little green men, a laughing Obama confessed, “I thought it was so obvious what I meant.”
Obama and Colbert on ‘The Late Show’
Credit: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS
“Oh, it was obvious what you meant!” a teasing Colbert replied. “And we all got the message!”
Obama then took a moment to set the record straight.
“Here’s the thing: for those of you who still think that we’ve got little green men underground somewhere, one of the things you learn as president is the government is terrible at keeping secrets,” he said.
He continued, “This idea of conspiracy theories — if there were aliens or alien spaceships or anything under the control of the United States government that we knew about, seen photographs, what have you, I promise you some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend and impress her. It would leak!”
Colbert, in turn, suggested that there would at the very least be “certain hints” that alien life had touched down on Earth, like “a presidential center would look like a scout ship that’s just come down from low orbit and landed in Chicago.” The quip was a nod to Obama’s presidential center, which is set to open in June.
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While he may not have seen one, and swears that the U.S. isn’t hiding one E.T. or Paul style, Obama did note that he hopes aliens are real and has an interest in communicating with them. “I’m putting in a plug now,” he proclaimed. “First contact: I think I would be a good emissary for the planet.”
The politician proceeded to list some of his credentials in order to hopefully boost his chances. “I’ve got a diverse background, some experience in statecraft and diplomacy. I’m friendly,” he said. “So I actually think, I could do a pretty good job.”
Colbert, stepping into the role of a hiring manager for Earth’s alien relations, told Obama that “we will keep that in mind” moving forward in the process. “Thank you so much,” Obama said, before once again reiterating that the U.S. encountering alien life “hasn’t happened yet!”
Obama’s found himself beamed up in alien drama when he first stated his beliefs on the No Lie podcast in February. He later clarified his remarks in an Instagram post, noting that “statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there” but that “the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low.
He continued, “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”
If the former president would like to see an alien, or, at least, a photo of one, then he’d need only to go hang out with Blink-182 guitarist Tom Delonge. The rocker, who has been researching them for years, famously showed Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor a photo of a dead alien at Foo Fighters drummer Ilan Rubin’s wedding.
Watch Colbert and Obama discuss aliens in the clip above.
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