U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to sue the Wall Street Journal after the publication revealed details of a “bawdy” note it says was written by Trump, alongside a lewd sketch of a naked woman, to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday.
Trump promised the lawsuit after the WSJ described a suggestive letter it contends included the president’s name as part of a 2003 album created by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein.
Trump denied the note was of his creation and, according to the WSJ, said the letter was “a fake thing.”
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” he added. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
“I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else.”
The WSJ said the note bore Trump’s signature and contained “several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker.”
“A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts,” it says, with the president’s signature written in a “squiggly” font below her waist and a final line that reads: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
Trump and Epstein were friends throughout the 90s and early 2000s, according to the WSJ article, and socialized both casually and professionally, including at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

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In 2002, the future president told New York Magazine he had known Epstein for 15 years.
“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life,” Trump told the outlet.
The pair fell out over an alleged business dispute in 2004, and before Epstein pleaded guilty to a 2008 charge for procuring prostitution.
In a Truth Social post on Thursday night, Trump reiterated his pledge to pursue legal action against the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper.
“The Wall Street Journal printed a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein. These are not my words, not the way I talk,” he wrote. “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 ass off, and that of his third rate newspaper. Thank you for your attention to this matter! DJT.”
News of the letter broke after Trump targeted his own supporters pushing for the release of the Epstein files, saying they were “weaklings” for demanding to see the documents and attempted to place blame on Democrats, who he claimed created the Epstein files narrative as a “hoax.”
The president spent years building political support from those who have stoked claims of a cover-up of Epstein’s 2019 death, which conspiracists claimed was ruled a suicide to protect the former financier’s wealthy friends from incrimination.
Thursday’s revelation — coupled with frustration from Trump-allied lawmakers on Capitol Hill — pushed Trump to abruptly reverse course and direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to try to make some of the documents in the case public.
Bondi said she would seek court permission Friday to release grand jury information, but it would require a judge’s approval, and she and Trump were silent on the additional evidence collected by federal law enforcement in the sprawling investigation that Bondi last week announced she would not release.
— with files from The Associated Press
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