President Donald Trump has been accused of signing a drawing of a naked woman as a gift to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday in 2003. Trump’s friendship with Epstein, who was a convicted sex offender, is currently under scrutiny after the US Department of Justice and the FBI claimed that there is no Epstein “client list.” Trump’s dismissive attitude about the case has only exacerbated the scandal.
On July 17, 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported that Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell contacted some of the former financier’s friends to compile a collection of letters for his 50th birthday. According to the publication, Trump was among the friends who participated. The news outlet described Trump’s contribution to the birthday gift as a letter that “contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman,” per MSNBC.
Trump allegedly signed his name across the woman’s body — “below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.” The end of the letter reportedly reads, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” Additionally, a typewritten note included with the letter allegedly stated, “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey,” People reported.
The president has denied these allegations. During an interview with the WSJ, he referred to the letter as “a fake thing.” “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” he claimed. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
But The New York Times has seemingly debunked this claim. According to the publication, Trump used to doodle — and even described doing so in his 2008 book, Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success.
A passage from the book reads, “It takes me a few minutes to draw something, in my case, it’s usually a building or a cityscape of skyscrapers, and then sign my name, but it raises thousands of dollars to help the hungry in New York through the Capuchin Food Pantries Ministry.”
Trump also took to his social media site Truth Social to deny writing a birthday letter to Epstein. “The Wall Street Journal printed a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein,” he wrote via his social media platform. “These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures. I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn’t print this Fake Story. But he did, and now I’m going to sue his a– off, and that of his third rate newspaper.”
