Donald Trump reacts to newly-surfaced photos with Jeffrey Epstein: 'You've got to be kidding me'

WASHINGTON, DC: President Trump reacted to a CNN report that uncovered previously unseen photos of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein at the former's 1993 wedding to Marla Maples.

Naturally, Trump wasn’t thrilled when CNN called him up for a reaction. He reportedly fired back over the phone, “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

According to CNN, he called the outlet "fake news” multiple times before hanging up the phone entirely.

Photos show Jeffrey Epstein attending Donald Trump's wedding

CNN’s investigative unit KFILE has been busy digging up receipts. One black-and-white snap shows Epstein casually attending the Trump-Maples reception.

Another throwback comes from visual artist Dafydd Jones, who captured Trump and Epstein mingling at the Harley-Davidson Cafe opening that same year. Two of Trump’s children were also in the frame.

Jones told CNN, “I must have recognized him going in [to the event],” referring to the Epstein wedding shot.

For context, these images were taken more than a decade before Epstein was accused of sex trafficking.

Furthermore, CNN unearthed a 1999 video of Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting it up at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. The report also features photos of them rubbing elbows at a Mar-a-Lago charity event with Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew in tow.

White House responds to new photos

Responding to the new photos, White House communications director Steven Cheung told CNN, “These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious.”

He added, “The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”

Just days before CNN’s bombshell, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Trump had allegedly sent Epstein a 50th birthday note in 2003 that featured an outline of a naked woman surrounding lines of typewritten text.

The message reportedly read in part, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret," with Trump’s signature below the woman’s waist.

Trump and his allies blasted the note as “fake” and announced plans to sue the Journal and its owner, conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch. Not only that, but he said he’d asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to dig up “any and all” grand jury documents tied to Epstein, pending a court's green light.

Meanwhile, a federal judge overseeing the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury records in the Epstein-Maxwell saga said Tuesday he’d rule “expeditiously” after asking for more information.

Donald Trump trolled by critics over new Epstein photos

Still, critics of Donald Trump are pouncing hard on what they see as damning history.

MSNBC exile Mehdi Hasan ranted on X, "The Trump-Epstein friendship should have been a huge scandal in the 2020 election, the year after Epstein was charged and then died in prison on Trump’s watch. It should have been a huge scandal in the 2024 election, after audio emerged of Epstein saying he was Trump’s closest friend. And it should be a huge scandal now!"

Former Pelosi advisor Jesse Lee added, “Is there more to the story of why they stopped being such close friends? It’s always that they had a ‘falling out,’ or this ‘creep’ line. Suspicious repetition.”

The West Chester Democratic Party posted on Bluesky, “Donald Trump was best friends with one of the most notorious child molesters in American history.”

“Trump is trying to distance himself, but this just further destroys his argument,” posted Democrat loyalist Harry Sisson.

“Holy S**T, Epstein was at Trump's second wedding and there's VIDEO,” wrote lefty hothead Keith Olbermann.

Despite all the noise, no one’s produced any proof that Trump was involved in Epstein’s criminal activities. Trump has repeatedly called Epstein a “creep” and insists he banned him from Mar-a-Lago.

He’s also alternated between claiming Epstein’s files don’t exist and calling them part of a Democratic “hoax.”

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