TRUMP TO ET:
“STAY IN YOUR SAUCERS!”
DECEMBER 2024 / JANUARY 2025
Does a person such as Donald Trump help us to understand why extraterrestrials have not made open contact? Do his comments and beliefs provide us insight into why beings from elsewhere do not wish to meet us? Do his ideas and actions on women, immigration and minorities provide us clues as to why humans have not received an invitation to celestial society?
Trump’s hateful rhetoric and insulting tweets have included the racist “birther” lie about Obama, speaking about “black jobs", the questioning of Kamala Harris’ “blackness”, and reference to Mexican immigrants as “criminals and rapists”. When last time President, he removed the term “diversity” from government websites. He wishes to build a great wall to separate us from our neighbors. He is isolationist in nature and believes us to be superior to all other nations and peoples. He has referred to El Salvador, Haiti, and nations in Africa as “shithole countries” and that he does not want their people. He has vitriolic disdain for the trans community. He disparages people’s personal appearances and mocks the disabled. His constant “othering” of people and societies stokes fear and intolerance. Found liable for rape, he is vulgar and believes that celebrities are entitled to grab women’s genitals. His VP believes that childless women are “cat ladies”. Trump has declared that he is the protector of women “whether they like it or not”. He believes that Hitler “did some good things”. He appointed an openly White Nationalist, Stephen Miller, as Deputy Chief of Staff and to help develop policy for storm trooper mass deportation without concern for the aged, young children or family separation. Trump has no care for the environment – and no empathy for other species and the animal kingdom.
A visiting alien from another planet or realm would not be welcome by a man such as Trump. The alien would be the “Ultimate Immigrant”. It would be viewed as not only "not from our country" – but not even from our own world.
"Nationalism" is endemic to all countries today and throughout history. It is an engrained ideological apparatus where citizens and the nation-state find common loyalties and identification. We have all cultivated a devotion to the interests and culture of the respective nations in which we live. "Ethnic Identity" is our shared heritage. It can be based on such things as ancestry, traditions, language and territory.
Both of these powerful concepts – nationalism and ethnic identity – contribute to our sense of belonging. But the alien does not "belong". The alien does not fit any of our people's sense of nationalism or of ethnic identity. The alien would not "fit in" to any existing professional, social, cultural, racial, or legal class. In fact, it may well be that they do not share anything with us with which we are familiar. They would be distrusted. Many of us would find it difficult to cultivate a sense of kinship with them. How would you act towards a "stateless" person who does not have a past, an identity or any "ways of being" with which you can relate?
Nationalism and ethnic identity can lead to a "healthy pride". But left unchecked, it can also lead to a negative view of other cultures. It can promote an "Us versus Them" attitude which would not welcome the visiting alien. One could easily envision the uprising of a movement against the visiting alien.
In ancient times in primitive tribal states, the "foreigner" was viewed as an outlaw, enemy or criminal. Even today there is that same subtle sense that is instilled in many of us. We humans seem forever compelled to draw division. We need to box and label "them" in order to deal with "them". We often blame them. Over the centuries the Irish, Jews, the Indigenous, Italians, Asians, Blacks, Latinos, and LGBTQ+ have all taken their turns on the bigotry hot seat. The visiting alien would surely be next in line. We can conceptualize the visiting alien, but very few would actually welcome them at the dinner table.
As humans, we seek comfort. And the visiting alien takes us far out of our comfort zone. The fear of moving toward something that is not known is inherent in most all of us. If someone does not know the other person's culture, religion or race – prejudice emerges. And this prejudice stems from the fear of how such exposure might change ourselves. We would be frightened of the huge change that the visiting alien would represent.
The Alien recognizes that the Human is historically unable to get along with other humans of varying races, creeds, colors and countries. They see that we even find it difficult to deal with those of a different appearance, age group, ethnicity, gender, or sexual identity. They see how we avoid those with physical or mental challenges. We build up inaccurate or even hateful mental images of those things to which we are not exposed, about those who are not like us. Sometimes we even demonize them. Trump exemplifies man’s compulsion to label, belittle and vilify those who are not the same.
Until we are proven able to coexist as a human race, non-human races will not make open contact with us. They see that humans still cannot even understand each other – and for that reason we would be entirely unable to understand the visiting alien. We are still dealing with the tremendous challenge of being human. We are not ready for non-humans. Until we change our inner selves, our outer world will forever be in conflict. Until this personal transformation, Man will remain apart from the diversity and full splendor that is the Universe.
The alien knows that Trump divides those on this planet and that he would not welcome those from another.