President Donald Trump’s decision to green light an attack on Iran has left many of his detractors scratching their heads.

After all, Trump loudly and repeatedly promised not to get the US involved in another war when he was campaigning for office in 2024. Kamala Harris would drag the United States into a conflict with Iran, it was said, and Trump would ensure that they had at least four years of relative peace.

It took little over a year for him to break that promise, with the POTUS agreeing to help Israel attack Iran over alleged fears that the Middle Eastern nation are on the verge of having a nuclear weapon.

With no concrete evidence that the claim is true, the door remains open for critics of Trump and his airstrikes on Iran – of which there are many – to speculate if there aren’t ulterior motives at play.

There are many, for example, who have voiced the opinion that launching an invasion of Iran is the perfect way to get people to stop talking about the Epstein files. Trump, readers will surely remember, was mentioned thousands of times in the files, and though being named is not proof of wrongdoing, there are rumored to be a lot of documents that remain unpublished.

Put simply, there are those who say Trump is trying to distract from the fallout of the Epstein files by giving the world at large something bigger and more explosive (pardon the pun) to look at.

And if employing the classic wag the dog tactic is what Trump truly intends, there are other subjects he can turn to that could well succeed in gripping the public’s attention.

The 79-year-old recently instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to release government files relating to aliens, prompting a new wave of scepticism as to whether or not he’s trying to generate a storm capable of burying certain other, less-than-flattering stories.

Vivian Wilson, estranged daughter of Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk, certainly thinks so.

Writing on social media, Wilson penned: “Not to put my tinfoil hat on, but I think this alien bull— is a distraction from the Epstein Files.”

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

Last month, Pete Hegseth provided an update, telling reporters that he had people currently “working on it”.

Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time Vivian Wilson has weighed in publicly on the Epstein files. After the Department of Justice released in excess of three million files – included in which were email conversations between her father, Elon Musk, and Jeffrey Epstein – Wilson posted on social media to share what she remembered from her childhood.

“There was this boat ride from St Vincent to St Barth’s I remember from when I was little,” she wrote in one post. “We used to visit around the holidays. I remember the sea being so dark at night.”

She later added: “I’m just going to speak directly instead of being vague and cryptic. I can confirm we were in St Barth’s at the time specified in the emails, and therefore I believe they are authentic.”