And while a fair share of his policies and proposals have been somewhat controversial, as well as his reaction to tragic events under his second presidency, there is a universal sense of anticipation when it comes to one thing the 47th POTUS has promised.

It all comes down to Trump’s dedication to revealing state secrets that have not been released to the public. Some of these have remained classified secrets for decades, dating back to the 1960s.

Anna Paulina Luna is a member of the US Congress and following her appointment by President Trump to lead the declassification force, here is a run down of the biggest secrets we could soon know.

Disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died at the age of 66.

This was while he was in prison serving sentences relating to allegations of sexually abusing children and sex trafficking minors. His suicide came while he was set to face trial over new child trafficking charges.

Now, under Trump, Epstein’s so-called ‘client list’ will be revealed after being declassified by the federal government.

Trump himself was a known associate of Epstein before his sexual offence charges came to light. There is zero suggestion of any wrongdoing by the President.

Epstein and Trump in 1997 (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Marsha Blackburn, a Republican senator for Tennessee, said: “I have been working on this for years, trying to get those records of who flew on Epstein’s plane and who helped him build this international human trafficking, sex trafficking ring.”

Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, said: “Child sex trafficking has no place in the United States of America, and I will do everything, if confirmed as FBI director, to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened in the past and how we are going to countermand missing children and exploited children going forward.”

Assassination of JFK

The assassination of President John F Kennedy sent shockwaves through America and the wider world when the POTUS was shot in the head and killed while in Dallas.

Happening back in 1963, it has arguably become the most famous conspiracy theory of all time despite the FBI ruling that Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed the President himself from the a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.

A US Marine veteran, Oswald said he was framed for the murder. He never faced trial, with 24-year-old murdered on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. And it Oswald’s plea of innocence, combined with theories of FBI or CIA involvement, that has led to decades of conspiracy build up on the case.

Moments before JFK was assassinated (Getty Images / Bettmann)

Now, Trump could end that for good by releasing the JFK files to the public. Speaking to Joe Rogan before his re-election, Trump said: “I did partially open [the files]. I think I’ve opened 50 percent but I was asked not to do it, and I thought that was a reasonable ask.

“But now I’m going to do it I’m going to do it very soon there’s a lot of interest in it.”

Trump has appointed JFK’s nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The first cases of Covid-19 were detected in China (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Covid-19 origins

While fresh in our minds despite attempts to forget about those brutal years spent in lockdown and fighting the virus before vaccines were created, talk continues around where Covid-19 came from.

The first outbreak happened in Wuhan, China, with it very quickly spreading around the world.

Trump previously called it the ‘Chinese virus’, angering officials in Beijing. And despite US national intelligence saying in 2020 there was no evidence of it originating from a Chinese laboratory, Trump stood by this theory.

Former FBI director Christopher Wray echoed Trump in 2024, saying it ‘most likely’ originated from a ‘Chinese government-controlled lab’. Beijing once again hit back, accusing the US of ‘political manipulation’.

Trump is now set to release the federal files on the origins of Covid-19, which should make for interesting reading.

What is out there? (Getty Stock Images)

Aliens and UFOs

Trump previously spoke to Joe Rogan about declassifying files relating to unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

“There’s a lot of interest in the people coming from space. And I know you’re interested in that. It’s never been my thing. I have to be honest. I never have been a believer,” Trump told the UFC colour commentator.

Speaking about what others have seen, though, Trump said: “I interviewed jet pilots that were solid people, perfect – great pilots, great everything. And they said, ‘We saw things, sir, that were very strange. Like, a round ball but it wasn’t a comet or a meteor’.

“It was something and it was going four times faster than an F-22, which is a very fast plane, you know. And it was round, which isn’t, in theory, a great shape.”

This one is sure to get the attention of pretty much everyone.

The attack on the Twin Towers (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

9/11 terrorist attacks

On September 11, 2011, a number of coordinated attacks were carried out on the United States by al-Qaeda, destroying the Twin Towers in New York City and flying a plane in to the Pentagon.

A total of 2,977 people lost their lives, with it changing the course of history forever and seeing the USA wage its ‘war on terror’ that has dominated global politics for the two and a half decades since.

Alongside the awful real-world consequences of the attack, 9/11 conspiracy theories have become a social phenomenon.

From controlled demolitions of the Twin Towers to the Pentagon being attacked by the US military, not a separate plane, there are what feels like countless takes on what really happened.

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO just can’t seem to stay out of the headlines at the moment.

Musk was the centre of controversy at President Donald Trump’s inauguration last month, as he was seen doing a ‘Nazi gesture’ up on stage, which Grimes also commented on.

The South African-born tech entrepreneur has been a huge supporter of the 47th US President, and he’s one of his closest allies, as he was part of an Oval Office press conference at the White House yesterday (11 February).

X AE A-XII, better known as X, could be seen sitting atop Musk’s shoulders as the tech CEO was asked about the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

One of the questions Musk was asked about pertained to rumours that $50 million (£40.1 million) worth of condoms was being sent to Gaza in Palestine, though the reporter corrected this claim to be the Gaza Province in Mozambique.

The purpose of the move was to protect people from HIV, according to the reporter, but Musk stated that sending that many condoms anywhere wasn’t the best idea, adding: “That’s really an enormous number of condoms, if you think about it.”

While his answer garnered some laughs from the press on Tuesday, the mother of his son, Candian singer Grimes, was not happy with X’s public appearance.

Taking to social media platform X, she wrote: “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.”

The ‘Oblivion’ singer was responding to a post from a user that called him ‘polite’ and ‘cute’, as he told the President, ‘please forgive me, I need to pee’.

Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, has so far not spoken too much about Musk’s role on Trump’s team, though she addressed his ‘Nazi gesture’ by mentioning that she was ‘happy to denounce Nazi-ism’, saying that she needed to think ‘diplomatically’ before saying anything further.

The 36-year-old previously said of Musk’s public display of their son: “I have made it very clear I do not approve of that in every conceivable way I know how,” adding that it’s a ‘personal tragedy of mine’.

X was the star of the show in the Oval Office (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Grimes also previously wrote online that she just doesn’t ‘wanna be deported haha – like literally’, when speaking about some of the new bills being put in place.

Musk and Trump were in the Oval Office on Tuesday for the President to sign an executive order aimed at scaling back the federal work force, making agencies employ ‘no more than one employee for every four employees’ that leave, report Semafor.

Trump stayed quiet as Musk answered questions from reporters for about 30 minutes.

And while even the smaller sharks can be fairly creepy, it tends to be that the bigger the shark, the scarier it is.

So prepare for fear levels to be heightened as the ‘biggest great white shark’ ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean has been discovered off the US coast.

Named ‘Contender’, the ‘powerful’ male shark is tipped as the ‘ultimate ocean warrior’. I know right, sounds like he’s about to take part in Gladiators, doesn’t he?

Contender is a whopper. (OCEARCH)

Global shark tracker, OCEARCH, had a first ping of Contender on 17 January off the coast of the Florida-Georgia border. And it then pinged again on Monday this week further south down the coast of Florida.

The absolute whopper measures in at 13.8 feet long and is estimated to weigh a hefty 749.79 kg.

It’s added that ‘important biological samples’ have also been collected, including ‘urogenital material’ which are now being analysed.

The shark tracker explained that the shark has been named in honour of Contender Boats, a long-time partner of OCEARCH, who provide boats for its research missions.

It also shared a video to Facebook as it caught Contender to track it. The caption reads: “Contender is the largest male white shark ever caught, SPOT tagged, released and now studied in the NW Atlantic white shark population!”

With the shark travelling 292 miles in 25 days, some users took issue with the shark being caught as it has been explained to be due to research purposes.

He’s a big lad. (OCEARCH)

The largest preserved female great white shark measured in at 19.1 feet in length and around 2,000 kg in weight.

Typically though, the males tend to measure in at about 11 to 13 feet and females 15 to 16 feet. A 2014 study found that the lifespan of these whoppers of the sea is estimated to be about 70 years or even longer. So this Contender could be knocking about in the waters for quite some time at its mega length and weight.

Comments on the Facebook video called the shark ‘beautiful’ and an ‘amazing creature’.

And he might not just be one of the greatest of Brits, as Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight branded the Liverpudlian ‘one of the best actors on the planet’.

This comes as the pair team up again for the new Disney+ series, A Thousand Blows, with Graham making a ‘physically scary’ transformation to turn him into a beast for it.

Created by Knight and produced by the actor’s company with his wife Hannah Walters, Matriarch Productions, the show is inspired by true life stories in London’s East End in the 1880s.

Releasing later this month, the star’s appearance as the boxer has already been wowing fans as he put in the ‘hard graft’ to change his body. The 51-year-old tells LADbible he ‘wanted to completely change his shape’ over the six months from the project being greenlit.

Graham ‘loved’ the process, working hard with a trainer and boxing coach to ‘try and make a brawler’. Well, bulked up he did, as trailers show him looking intimidatingly brawly as the Victorian boxer with tattoos across his chest.

“I’m only little, so I wanted to have a little bulldog kind of thing,” he adds. “So it was a cross between Mike Tyson and this Bare Knuckle fighter called Lenny McLean that we wanted to use.”

And the result was something that left his cast mates and crew stunned, with an ‘impressed’ Kirby admitting he felt ‘a little bit vulnerable’ knowing he’d have to fight Graham. While Doherty said it was ‘gorgeous’ as it’s a ‘physical representation’ of the impressive work Graham normally applies ‘internally’.

For creator Knight, it was ‘unbelievable’ to see but also a little bit ‘annoying’.

“You have to look at yourself like, ‘therefore, I could do that possibly, if I committed myself’,” he jokes. “And it makes you feel like ‘Why am I not doing that?’”

The writer says Graham produced a transformation that made him ‘scary’ but that also helped the storyline.

“The scariness physically is what is tempered by the emotion that he shows,” Knight explains. “He’s such a great actor that it means I was able to delay his appearance on screen for quite a long time, knowing that when we finally reach that destination, it won’t be a let-down, it won’t be disappointing.”

Graham plays boxer Sugar Goodman. (Disney+)

It’s Graham’s abilities as an actor that’s a key reason why Knight continues to work with him.

“He’s one of the best actors on the planet, to start with,” he says. “He’s great person, great person to work with. When he’s on a project, everybody else becomes better because they know they have to bring their best performance.”

With Graham having appeared in Knight’s Peaky Blinders series and set to appear in the film, the writer therefore names A Thousand Blows ‘a dream project’.

The stars were once the duo that made up many fans’ favourite comedy bromance, having worked together on the likes of The Interview, This Is the End and Pineapple Express.

At the time of the allegations, Franco described them as ‘not accurate’ but added he didn’t want to ‘shut down’ those who ‘didn’t have a voice’.

The American agreed to pay out $2.23 million (£1.67 million) to settle a lawsuit brought by two former students of his now-defunct film school, Studio 4.

Following that, Franco was largely out of the spotlight and told Variety he had ‘changed his whole way of life’ before going into the changes of his relationship with Rogen.

Published yesterday (11 February), Rogen was asked in an Esquire profile how it felt ‘to have something so personal become so public’.

According to interviewer David Holmes, the 42-year-old was ‘clearly not surprised to get the question’ but was ‘just as clearly not happy about it’.

Referring to Franco’s comments, Rogen said: “Honestly, I absorb so little media that it really wasn’t on my radar.” And Holmes added: “That is all he wants to say about that.”

Well, fair enough to be honest. When Franco’s Variety interview went live, he was slammed as people accused him of ‘trying to make Seth look like the villain’.

As others added that ‘Seth did the right thing’ by ‘cutting off all ties’.

Rogen said it ‘wasn’t on his radar’ (Mike Marsland/WireImage)

But while Franco had faced particularly serious allegations that were settled by the suit, there were still fans who called the pair’s partnership the ‘end of an era’ as one even claimed: “Real friends don’t drop you when you’re down.”

Rogen did also publicly speak out in 2021 when he told the Sunday Times about the stance he was taking on Franco.

“What I can say is that I despise abuse and harassment and I would never cover or conceal the actions of someone doing it, or knowingly put someone in a situation where they were around someone like that.” he said.

“I look back to that interview in 2018 where I comment that I would keep working with James, and the truth is that I have not and I do not plan to right now.

Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée has spoken out about the death of the singer for the first time

Maya Henry and the former One Direction star officially started dating in August 2019 before he proposed that November. The pair then broke up in May 2022, and the singer dated Kate Cassidy until his sudden death in October 2024.

In a written statement for Rolling Stone Magazine, the 25-year-old said while she loved Payne ‘deeply’, he did things that ‘hurt’ her in ways she’ll ‘never fully understand’ and continued to do so after their split.

No public comment came on this from Payne before his death, which was caused by ‘polytrauma’ as he fell from the third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 16 October 2024.

“On drugs, he became someone unrecognisable — so different from his sober self,” she wrote. “I kept hoping each incident would be a wake-up call for him to get help, but it never was.”

The model said she convinced herself she ‘could fix things’ and believed ‘he would change’.

“I put myself in situations that were unsafe and harmful, ignoring every red flag because I didn’t want to give up on him,” she wrote. “I let myself believe that love could be stronger than addiction, that if I endured enough, if I sacrificed enough, he would see how much I cared and finally choose a different path.

“But that’s not how addiction works. No matter how much I tried to save him, I was drowning in the process.”

Payne died in October 2024 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Henry went on to say that ‘he was struggling’ with parts of himself and it wasn’t the ‘betrayals or addiction’ that broke them up.

“It was the realisation that I had spent years in something that was never what I thought it was. I don’t fault him for his struggles,” she said.

She added that she ‘stood by him in his darkest moments’ and when it was over, she was ‘left with nothing but emptiness’.

Henry said: “I wasn’t just heartbroken; I felt defrauded, as so many women in my position would. But what I do know is this: It wasn’t about me or anything I did. It was about struggles beyond my control. And in the end, I had to choose myself. I had to walk away, no matter how much it hurt, because staying in his world meant losing myself.”

After Payne’s death, she says what hurts the most is she is ‘left with the aftermath of his actions that continue to unfold’.

“As I’ve uncovered the extent of his non-consensual image sharing — images he acquired during our engagement and shared without my knowledge or consent — I’m faced with the complexity of grieving for someone I cared so deeply about despite the pain they have caused me,” Henry concluded.