As high-risk jobs go, being President of the United States is right up there. Four presidents have been shot and killed while in office, and every president since John F Kennedy has been threatened with assassination, except Lyndon B Johnson. Not sure what his secret was.
So when it comes to security you really can't be too careful. Big displays that take place outside, like the inauguration, are particularly high-risk. So, when Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, walked the two-and-a-half miles down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House they were heavily guarded by a team of security guards.
One secret service agent in particular, let's call him 006, has attracted a lot of attention after his stiff-looking stance and the weird way he was holding himself. It led people to speculate that he was most likely wearing a pair of false arms, while his real limbs were holding a weapon, finger on the trigger, waiting.
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Credit: YouTube
Running with the idea, social media users went on to claim that it was likely he was carrying a semi-automatic weapon, as it required both arms to hold.
When I read this, I thought, 'nah, of course he's not wearing false arms' but then I saw this photo:
Credit: Sky News
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And now I don't know what to believe. Those shoulders don't look real, do they? And if you watch the clips his fingers don't appear to move ever.
Of all the high-tech gadgets James Bond gets to mess around with, I don't remember poorly made plastic arms being one of them. Maybe I missed that bit on Octopussy?
Humans can't be trusted
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You really can't be too careful. In fact, Barack Obama was so worried that he wouldn't even trust humans to look after him. Instead he opted for aliens, if this clip is anything to go by.
Yep, people actually believed that rather than a crappy quality link, it was, in fact, proof of aliens. However, the theory was quickly quashed when a spokesperson for the White House told Wired that the administration couldn't afford shape-shifting alien reptilian guards.
Caitlin Hayden, the chief spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said: "I can't confirm the claims made in this video, but any alleged program to guard the president with aliens or robots would likely have to be scaled back or eliminated in the sequester."
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So, that's cleared that up...sort of.
There's a lot of assumptions being made here. I mean, firstly the assumption that reptilian shapeshifters live amongst us, but also, why does this need to be Obama's security? There are nations from right across the globe at that meeting, could the alien belong to one of them?
We deserve the truth. Are aliens flying down to Earth and taking our jobs?
Topics: Donald Trump