A rumor that circulated online in July 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump once called now-deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a "fun" and "terrific guy," adding, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

The 2019 suicide of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a New York jail cell  generated conspiracy theories, fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump's conservative MAGA movement, that he was killed by one of his famous connections.

MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson said President Trump is making a huge political blunder by calling the Jeffrey Epstein scandal a "hoax." "Nobody had ever heard of Bill Clinton on a predator island before Donald Trump brought it up,

Kevin Spacey has called for the Jeffrey Epstein files to be made public — saying “the truth can’t come soon enough” to help clear his name. “Release the Epstein files. All of them,” tweeted Spacey, 65, who once flew on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” jet and posed on a Buckingham Palace throne with the pedophile’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Some of Trump's most prominent supporters had promoted the idea of his naming a special counsel to review the case.

Sources tell Variety that the White House attempted to block the publication of a Wall St. Journal article about President Donald Trump allegedly writing a letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 that contains suggestive language.

President Trump avoided questions from reporters about the swirling Jeffrey Epstein controversy Friday as he signed legislation to better regulate cryptocurrency to strengthen dollar-backed “stablecoins” that can be used for quick financial transactions.