Overview
- At the Feb. 1 Grammys, host Trevor Noah joked that Epstein’s island is gone and quipped that President Trump needs a new place to “hang out with Bill Clinton.”
- Trump responded on Truth Social, calling the line “false and defamatory,” denying he has ever been to Epstein’s island, and saying he will send lawyers to sue Noah.
- As of Tuesday, no lawsuit had been filed, though Trump told reporters Noah was “a lightweight” and dismissed the Grammys as “not watchable.”
- Jimmy Kimmel, whom Trump also insulted in his posts and remarks, reacted on his show with surprise, saying, “How did I get in there?”
- The back-and-forth follows the DOJ’s Jan. 30 release expanding its Epstein document library past 3 million pages; the New York Times tallied over 5,300 files referencing Trump, earlier DOJ records listed him on Epstein’s jet in the 1990s, and both Trump and Bill Clinton deny wrongdoing and have not been charged.