New headcanon: after the events of Independence Day, the scientists at Area 51 decide that President Whitmore's speech was just too good at uniting humanity. If allowed to continue his term, they think all wars on earth will end as humanity unites to defend itself against the potential return of a common foe. So they make him disappear, staging it as a foreign assassination.

Instead of killing him though, they wipe his memory and use one of the alien flyers to drop him off at a monastery somewhere in the Ford Galaxy. Since he is kinda royalty, they leave him only with a necklace... #independenceday #spaceballs