{"id":133290,"date":"2025-09-10T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133290\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:16:07","slug":"watch-late-night-hosts-joke-about-trumps-birthday-card-for-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133290\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Late-Night Hosts Joke About Trump’s Birthday Card for Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe salacious birthday card<\/a> Donald Trump<\/a> made for Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> was the main subject of late-night shows last night, with the hosts commenting both on the scandal and on the president\u2019s artistic skill. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn The Late Show<\/a>, Stephen Colbert<\/a> recapped the situation, recalling how Trump initially denied being part of Epstein\u2019s infamous birthday book<\/a>. \u201cEarlier this summer the Wall Street Journal reported that back in 2003 Trump contributed to a book for Epstein\u2019s 50th birthday, and the letter he wrote was a Picasso of pervitude,\u201d Colbert said. He added that Trump sued the newspaper for $20 billion and called the letter \u201cnonexistent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTurns out, existent,\u201d Colbert replied. \u201cBecause yesterday the House Oversight Committee released it<\/a> and whoops-a-pubey. That sure as hell looks legit. It\u2019s directly from the Jeffrey Epstein estate. It\u2019s exactly what the Wall Street Journal reported and the signature identically matches a bunch of ones from the same era. And you know what they say: If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck that duck should not be allowed within 300 yards of a school.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Late Show also aired a fake advertisement for a presidential drawing school. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live, Jimmy Kimmel explained how he was enjoying the \u201cfull MAGA freakout\u201d that had ensued after the letter was released. \u201cIt\u2019s turned into a gift that keeps on giving,\u201d Kimmel said about the birthday book given to Epstein. \u201cNot only does it contain the now-infamous creepy letter and drawing with Trump\u2019s signature on it, it holds a number of disturbing pictures and notes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter describing how Republicans claimed that Trump couldn\u2019t have drawn the letter because he\u2019s not much of an artist, Kimmel responded, \u201cThen he couldn\u2019t have done it, right? He\u2019s not much of an artist? What are you talking about? He\u2019s an amazing artist. He\u2019s a con artist. He\u2019s a bullshit artist. He\u2019s not an artist? He paints his whole face orange every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOn The Tonight Show<\/a>, Jimmy Fallon<\/a> remarked of the letter, \u201cIt is gross, but in Trump\u2019s defense Hallmark really doesn\u2019t have too many options in the \u2018sex-trafficking friends turning 50\u2019 section.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn The Daily Show, Michael Kosta discussed the \u201ccreepy\u201d birthday card and Trump\u2019s ongoing denial of its existence. \u201cOkay, okay, I know what we\u2019re all thinking,\u201d Kosta said after sharing an image of the card. \u201cThat\u2019s an excellent drawing. I think Donald Trump might have a wonderful future as an artist.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe turned to a second camera and whispered, \u201cNow, obviously that\u2019s a crappy drawing. But as a student of history one thing I\u2019ve learned is when a certain type of person dreams of being a great artist we should encourage that instead.\u201d <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The salacious birthday card Donald Trump made for Jeffrey Epstein was the main subject of late-night shows last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,1376,75,12208,13397,4592,4701,7180,3668,18745,22943],"class_list":["post-133290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-late-night-tv","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-late-show","tag-the-tonight-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}