Donald Trump announced on Friday that all government records about aviator Amelia Earhart will be declassified nearly a century after the pioneering female aviator mysteriously vanished in 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world.Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform and noted that Earhart was “the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and achieved many other Aviation ‘firsts.’”The president then said he was “ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her.”But many people on social media wondered why he was releasing the files for Earhart instead of another famous person whose last name begins with “E”: Disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.There is nothing the government has on Amelia Earhart that we don't already publicly know. Is this Trump's big distraction from the Epstein Files? Declassify ALL of the files from Epstein! https://t.co/xg38NzcaAP— Russell Foster A New Texas (@RussellFosterTX) September 26, 2025Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were flying from New Guinea to Howland Island when she radioed that she was running low on fuel.Despite a U.S. Navy search, no trace of the two was ever found, and the government adopted the position that the aviators had gone down with their plane.Theories about what happened have popped up ever since, according to The Associated Press, including that they were abducted by aliens, living in New Jersey under an alias, executed by Japan, or had died on a deserted island, where their remains were eaten by massive coconut crabs.Close