Donald Trump announced on Monday that he would be releasing 80,000 pages of unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“People have been waiting for decades for this,” he teased during a press conference outside the Kennedy Center. “We have a tremendous amount of paper. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything.”
The official release comes about seven weeks after Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents related to JFK’s assassination, as well as the 1968 assassinations of his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
In 2017, during his first term in office, Trump promised he’d release the remaining files connected to the JFK assassination, but held back some documents that could potentially harm national security, according to The Associated Press.
But many people on social media were skeptical that the document dump would provide new information, considering President Joe Bidenordered the release of 13,173 assassination documents in December 2022.
Many also predicted that Tuesday’s dump would turn out much like last month’s release of the so-called Epstein files, which turned out not to contain anything that wasn’t already public.
Some folks predicted MAGA followers would be very disappointed.
Other people speculated about what might distinguish the files on Kennedy’s assassination from the Epstein files and ― spoiler alert ― it’s a five-letter word beginning with the letter “T” and rhymes with “rump.”
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One person who isn’t excited about the release of the JFK files is Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg.
Back in January, when Trump was first teasing the release of the documents, Schlossberg took to X, formerly Twitter, and declared, “Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back. There’s nothing heroic about it.”