Charles Barkley has officially weighed in on the Great Galactic Debate, and his conclusion is as on-brand Sir Charles, equal parts cynical and hilarious. During a recent episode of The Steam Room podcast, Chuck and Ernie Johnson discussed recent comments from former POTUS, Barack Obama and incumbent President, Donald Trump regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). Or as outsiders of the extraterrestrial explorers community call it, ‘aliens.’

While the political world remains fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial life, Barkley remains a staunch non-believer—not because of science, but because of his lack of faith in the discretion of the United States government.

“First of all, our government probably got so many secrets. I don’t think you could keep that a secret. So, I don’t believe in aliens. I do not. I don’t believe in ghosts or anything like that,” Barkley claimed. So explain who stole your insane athletic ability in Space Jam, Chuckster.

When Ernie asked if Barkley truly believed humanity is “as good as it gets,” the very opinionated Chuck doubled down. The core of Barkley’s argument rests on his personal theory that a secret as massive as alien life would be far too valuable for a politician to keep quiet.

“Listen… as many crooked people as we have in politics, a lot of y’all crooks, insider trading, which would be illegal. Stop stealing people money,” was Barkley’s sudden detour into a critique of Washington.

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Charles Barkley has ‘definitive’ proof aliens don’t exist

His all-time favorite president, Barack Obama, fueled the extraterrestrial inquisitive when he not only claimed aliens exist, but said they’re not in the famed Area 51. Donald Trump claims he’s neutral on this issue but wanted to release Area 51 files to prove if aliens exist or not. Well, Charles Barkley thinks the answers are not in Area 51 but in the capital.

Chuck claims that if any politician had definitive government-verified proof of life outside the planet, a bunch of media houses would get the call. “If I was a politician, you think I wouldn’t sell that to TMZ or some network and make a gazillion dollars? There’s no way you could keep that a secret. It’s impossible to keep that much of a secret.”

In Chuck’s opinion, if the martians haven’t shown up in “250 years” of humanity’s history (the world’s a lot older than that, Chuck), then they don’t exist. What about the Martian named Marvin who helped Michael Jordan save Barkley, Patrick Ewing’s and Muggsy Bogues’ careers?

It’s not new for Chuck who said the same to astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. But Chuck’s logic stems from the people on the Big Blue Planet. Back in his talk show era with Gayle King, he said he was afraid aliens might be as mean as Twitter trolls. So he’d rather not believe in that same as he would never join X.

While figures like Obama have admitted there is “footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” Charles Barkley’s TMZ test proves that if there was footage of a little green man somewhere, a certain someone would have cashed the check by now.