Readers have all had the same response after reading the classified JFK documents that Donald Trump released.
The 47th president was sworn in on 20 January and in his first week, made some major moves, including signing an executive order releasing the sealed documents regarding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
On 23 January, the 78-year-old shocked everyone when he made plans to declassify documents surrounding three US assassinations.
As of 17 March, the 80,000 page document was available to the public but those who have read appear to be slightly underwhelmed.
At the time, Trumo said: “As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents.
“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
Speaking to reporters while signing the executive order, Trump said: “That’s a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades.
“And everything will be revealed.”
Conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination have been circulating for decades. The 35th president was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald on 22 November, 1963.
Oswald was then shot dead two days later by nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. So naturally, the public have been desperate to know what happened.
However, according to social media, the documents were underwhelming. One person wrote: “I’m quickly going through the JFK files to see if we would get everything unredacted like promised. We have not.”
Another added: “Most of these documents were marked ‘safe’ for declassification YEARS ago. There is nothing here. Where are the ‘exempt’ and ‘excluded’ JFK files?”
“Today, the final 80,000 JFK assassination documents were supposed to be declassified. Instead, we got a pathetic trickle – just over 1,000 files, most of them already known, heavily redacted, or long marked for release.
“A smokescreen of transparency, carefully curated to reveal nothing of substance.” said another.
JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, has addressed how he feels about the historic move.
Taking to X, he wrote: “JFK conspiracy theories – The truth is a lot sadder than the myth – a tragedy that didn’t need to happen.
“Not part of an inevitable grand scheme. Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back. There’s nothing heroic about it.”
Other social media users responded, with one writing: ‘JFK would absolutely be ashamed of what his kin have become’, to which Schlossberg responded: “I’d love to speak to JFK from beyond the grave just let me know how best to reach him and then I’ll start behaving with some class per his instructions in the meantime there is traffic I’m gonna go play in it come you first.”
