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Topics: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Politics, US News, Jimmy Fallon, Social Media
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Politics, US News, Jimmy Fallon, Social Media
Donald Trump is no stranger to causing controversy, but his recent remarks on Jeffrey Epstein have really ruffled people's feathers.
Trump's friendship with the late financier has been under the microscope of late after the FBI and Department of Justice announced that it would not be releasing any more files relating to the convicted criminal.
The president has promised complete transparency when it came to investigations regarding the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. and other cases in the public interest.
He's since declassified files on the two political figures, but there's another case in the public interest that Americans are wanting to learn the truth about — the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Trump administration have released a handful of files on the Epstein. They continue to dance around the fact that he had links with the president, however.
With this in mind, the POTUS has been grilled about Epstein on numerous occasions and was recently quizzed about Epstein's island.
The financier owned Little Saint James, a small private island in the United States Virgin Islands. It was put up for sale for $125 million in 2022, BBC News reported at the time.
"Never went to the island," Trump told reporters. "And Bill Clinton went there, supposedly, 28 times."
Trump also claimed he didn't talk to Epstein 'for years', adding: "I wouldn't talk because he did something that was inappropriate."
He went on to say that he'd been invited there but he 'turned it down'.
Trump shared: "I never had the privilege of going to [Epstein's] island. And I did turn it down. A lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island."
"In one of my very good moments I turned it down," the president added.
His undeniably bizarre wording has left people unimpressed as Trump implied that going to Epstein's island, where some of the sexual abuse he was convicted of occurred, would have been a 'privilege'.
Jimmy Fallon is one person who has taken aim at the president for his comments on Epstein's island.
Playing a snippet of the POTUS' interview on last night's The Tonight Show, Fallon quipped: "Trump’s staff was like, 'A simple no would’ve been fine.'"
He continued: "Trump said he was invited to the island but didn’t want to go. I get it — it’s so annoying when you get invited to a destination crime scene, isn’t it?"
Another of Trump's critics described his answer as 'the most disgusting moment of his presidency'.
They further fumed on Twitter: "NEVER HAD THE PRIVILEGE? There is no coming back from this. Anyone who supports him now is as disgusting as he is."
"I’m so tired of being embarrassed by this administration," said another person in the wake of Trump's unpopular remarks.
"Only evil people would consider it a privilege," suggested another.