The latest distraction attempt: Trump says he's ordering the release of all government records on Amelia Earhart.

[demmiblue]

Trump says he’s ordering the release of all government records on Amelia Earhart.

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T20:51:07.311Z

AMERICA: Release the Epstein files!

TRUMP: What?

AMERICA: RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

TRUMP: Say it?

AMERICA: 😠

TRUMP: Oh, the Earhart files!

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-26T21:10:05.020Z

If I was Donald Trump I would not be drawing the public’s attention right now to my ability to release files

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-26T20:59:56.409Z

[IcyPeas]

1. I thought this was The Onion

[SheltieLover]

3. I did, too!

[Jack Valentino]

28. Trump mistook the Earhart plane for the EPSTEIN plane....

[Dave says]

32. Me too. Thought it had to be the onion

[BOSSHOG]

2. That will never fly

[chicoescuela]

4. Ha

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Amelia Epstein? . . . . . nt

[some_of_us_are_sane]

21. LOL!

GOOD ONE!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Thanks.

I do claim that as an original.

[Prairie Gates]

6. 1) Nobody in history has ever asked Donald Trump about Amelia Earhart (starts with an obvious lie)

2) Trump read a big boy book about Amelia Earhart when he was first learning how to read, didn't he?
3) Wait, is there a right wing conspiracy about Amelia Earhart? What in the hell?
4) Usually, a competent observer can piece together the strands of intention and silliness that lead to some Trumpian proclamation, but I gotta say, this one is an ... enduring mystery...like Amela Earhart....

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Well, there is a conspiracy theory

I dunno whether it's right- or left-wing, but it's been around since at least 1943, when the B-movie Flight for Freedom was released. It stars Rosalind Russell as "Tonie Carter," who's Not At All Related in Any Way to Amelia Earhart, abd Fred McMurray as "Randy Britton," who's Nothing At All like her Alcoholic Navigator Fred Noonan on her Final Flight.

Set in 1940, the film has Carter/Earhart called to a top-secret Pentagon meeting before her around-the-world flight attempt. She's asked in the meeting to fake being lost near "Gull Island," where she can secretly land and wait to be rescued by the Navy, which has stocked the island with survival gear and food.

The strategy is, the Japanese wouldn't dare try to stop the Navy from searching for the world-famous aviator, which would allow searching every island in the vicinity and thereby gather a whole bunch of intel on Japanese military locations and strength.

There's a twist at the end, but I ain't sayin' nothin'.

[Prairie Gates]

30. A plot so asinine it could only have been conceived

by repentant CPUSA members recruited through coercion to the War Department

[Wednesdays]

36. There were many conspiracy theories

One, as you pointed out, was that Earhart was spying on the Japanese on behalf of the U.S. government. A lot of books all but came out and said it directly, I think one of them was The Search For Amelia Earhart (1966).

Another wild theory was that Earhart faked her disappearance, and was still alive in the USA under an alias in the 1960's. Amelia Earhart Lives (1970) was a big proponent of that theory.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. This made me smile

Link to tweet

[leftstreet]

7. So...he can just order the release of records?

I'm so confused

[Ocelot II]

8. Huh? I didn't even know there were classified files about Amelia Earhart.

Her disappearance has been extensively researched ever since, and while no final conclusions have been reached, most historians think she crashed in the ocean. There will always be conspiracy theories about everything, but AFAIK Earharts's disappearance isn't a controversy any more, just a curiosity.

And what about Jimmy Hoffa and Judge Crater? Was Lizzie Borden really innocent?

The Epstein files, on the other hand....

[Wednesdays]

37. "...she crashed in the ocean..."

The most prevailing theory now is that she landed safely on an uninhabited atoll, but the plane was washed out to sea and she perished from starvation within a few weeks.

There were human bones found on the island in question, and remains of a campfire that was dated around 1937. The bones were shipped to a lab, but they were lost sometime before 1991. They had taken measurements of the bones, and those measurements are a possible match to Earhart's size based on photos of her.

This organization has searched the island, but so far has not produced anything conclusive.
https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/AEdescr2.html

[Ocelot II]

39. I have read that this is a theory as well, but it all begs the question

of whether there are still unreleased files about Earhart in the first place and if so, why Trump is releasing them now. What it does suggest that he can release whatever he wants if he wants to do it. So where are the Epstein files?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

45. This is NOT going to work

[Ocelot II]

46. Yeah, I don't think a lot of people are still clamoring to know what happened to her.

What's clear is that she got lost and crashed, either on an island or in the ocean. Everyone associated with her flight is long dead, and while some historians and aviation buffs would like a definitive answer, it's not of great interest to anybody else.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

47. I agree

[ananda]

9. I wonder who thought of that and wrote it for him.

No way it has anything to do with Trump except
maybe the autopen.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Hey Dimwit, what is UNreleased?

Dipship Dimwit

[Disaffected]

11. Just another episode of the

Trump Bread & Circuses show.

[spudspud]

12. Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

I have to do a double take on whether these are The Onion headlines these days.

[Grins]

13. While you're at it, release the FULL Mueller Report.

I’ll bet there’s some fine reading in there!

[SSJVegeta]

14. Lol

[UTUSN]

15. Hah! - Any Fascist files on LINDBERG?

[MLWR]

18. Probably not.

According to all I've read, his leanings were more in the direction of Nazi Germany and the Fuehrer.

[Krazy_Kat]

27. How about the Lindbergh baby?

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. He's 95 now and in hospice

somewhere in France.

[BurnDoubt]

16. Did the Epstein Files disappear with her?

Just Asking For A Friend.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Oh! Finally I'll be able to sleep nights.

[Buddyzbuddy]

19. Nope, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.

In case you weren't able to hear. EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN.

[WestMichRad]

20. There's no way he wrote the text for that.

He’s simply not capable of it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. Well, except for the German Capitalization

of Improper Nouns, but that can be copied by Anyone.

[patphil]

22. Well, this is both timely and so very important.

Very few Americans who were alive when she disappeared are still alive today.
But the overwhelming majority of Americans were were alive when Jeffery Epstein died are still alive today.
One thing we do know is that Amelia Earhart never visited Epstein's island.

[canetoad]

23. I suspect there is not much information

About Earhart that is not covered on the TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) website.

https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/AEdescr.html

[Kingofalldems]

25. Internet MAGAt trolls are loving it.

[kacekwl]

26. If this is indeed real

and the media, social media really everyone in the world doesn't laugh in his face and call him a completely idiot then for gods sake what will it take ?

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. You think the legitimate news nedia

should "laugh in (The Felon's) face and call him a 'completely idiot' [sic]"?

That's for the op-ed pages. Exen there, it invites libel suits.

[kacekwl]

42. Yes.

I do.

[eppur_se_muova]

35. Oooh, do Judge Crater next ! nt

[IronLionZion]

38. Did she crash into Epstein island?

Maybe he's going alphabetically. Earhart, Epstein, etc.

[Paladin]

40. How pathetic is this?

If Amelia Earhart had a grave, this would amount to trump pissing on it...

[LuckyCharms]

41. Thank you Mr. President! I've been waiting for those records.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. Nice Try, release the Epstein Files