What to Know
As people continue to wait on the Epstein files that the Department of Justice was ordered to release by December 19, 2025, President Donald Trump’s alleged birthday message for Jeffrey Epstein is on display in Washington D.C. Those who visit the National Mall have the opportunity to see a giant replica of Trump’s birthday card for the convicted sex offender, and can even write a message to the Trump administration.
The installation, which is 10 feet tall, shows “the several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman” that Trump allegedly gifted Epstein in 2003.
The other side of the card reads, “Happy Birthday To A ‘Terrific Guy!'”
An anonymous group called the Secret Handshake created the installation, which was put on display overnight on Sunday, January 18, CNN reported. According to photos and a report from the Washington Post, the card has been decorated with messages like, “Looking forward to your jail sentence, DJT!” and “You embarrass America & the world!!!”
According to the Washington Post, the group said it created the installation to “use creative and artistic free speech about one of the most relevant political issues of this moment, and to highlight the conversation about President Donald Trump’s friendship and relationship with Jeffrey Epstein using his own reported language and correspondence.” Additionally, the group hoped to draw attention to “the heavily redacted files that have been released and those that haven’t.”
The birthday card went viral in 2025.
In July 2025, the Wall Street Journal publicized the alleged birthday card, which Trump has claimed he did not write. The birthday letter included several lines that caught people’s attention, like “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret” and “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.”
Trump described the report as “fake.” Why? Because he doesn’t draw pictures like that, apparently. “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.”
In a Truth Social post, he reiterated this claim. “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.”
Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that Trump did actually draw — or at least claimed to in his 2008 book, Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success.
In the book, he wrote, “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.”
