Here's a Pew Research Center poll, the results of which give us answers to the question of why President Donald Trump is playing dumb when it comes to the existence of extraterrestrial life and does not give any tangible support to Congressional efforts to promote UFO disclosure. We have been told by Prof Haim Eshed in 2020 and David Grusch in 2025 that Trump has been briefed, and even working with human-looking aliens. So why doesn't he support UFO/ET disclosure?
The poll reveals that Trump's biggest support base by far is white Evangelical Christians, 72-78% of whom approve of Trump's job performance. Given that there are approximately 80 million white evangelicals in the US, roughly 60 million support Trump. Given Trump won 77 million votes in 2025, one can understand why he, Republicans, and the MAGA movement generally want to ensure the continued support of evangelicals.
Now we reach the crux of the problem when it comes to UFO/ET disclosure. A majority of Evangelical Christians believe that UFOs/ETs are fallen angels or demonic in nature, and are involved in abductions, etc. Imagine Trump declaring ETs exist and he is working with them. How many Evangelical Christians would desert Trump believing he is colluding with fallen angels/demons?
This is no stretch as books by popular evangelicals such as Thomas Horn, Steve Quayle, Chris Putnam, Chuck Missler, etc., describe the deceptive nature of ETs and how humanity may have to fight an end times war against fallen angels and their human supporters as prophesied in the Book of Revelation.
Trump has probably concluded that it's too risky for his administration to move forward with UFO/ET disclosure and either wait for attitudes to change or allow someone else, e.g., Pope Leo XIV, to lead the ET disclosure process.