But the dominoes were set in motion. At a White House news conference, Karoline Leavitt was asked about online rumors that Donald Trump has an aliens speech ready to go (she denied knowledge). Then Peter Doocy of Fox News asked Trump himself about the Obama alien comments, yielding a weird claim that the former president had revealed classified information and then, via social media, a Trumpian pledge to declassify everything related to “these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”