Donald Trump spent Christmas Day doing what he does best: projecting so hard you could screen a movie on him.
WHAT’S GOING ON: Instead of, say, enjoying eggnog or pretending to care about peace on earth, the president fired off a deranged Truth Social screed targeting “Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein”—the convicted sex offender who happened to be Trump’s longtime pal and party buddy.
The post rambles about people who “gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties” before eventually dropping Epstein “like a dog when things got too HOT.”
The kicker? Trump claims HE was “actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so.” He signed off with the genuinely unhinged holiday greeting: “Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!”
BUT BUT BUT: Here’s the thing about Trump positioning himself as the anti-Epstein crusader: His own name appears hundreds of times in the recently released Epstein files. He threw parties with Epstein at Mar-a-Lago.
And according to DOJ documents citing a federal prosecutor, Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet “many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware).” This wasn’t some casual acquaintance—there’s literal video footage of them partying together.
OF COURSE: This follows Trump’s Christmas Eve rant about “Radical Left Scum” and his Monday claim that the Epstein file releases are just meant to “deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has.”
Because when you’re definitely innocent and have nothing to hide, you spend back-to-back holidays rage-posting about the investigation and threatening that people should enjoy “what may be your last Merry Christmas.” Very normal behavior!
THE DETAILS: Trump also went after the New York Times for its Epstein coverage, claiming their reporting would hurt “so many of their friends, mostly innocent.”
He insists the whole thing is just another “Radical Left Witch Hunt”—throwing in Republican Rep. Thomas Massie as “one lowlife ‘Republican'” for good measure—and promises that when names come out, “there will be a lot of explaining to do.”
BOTTOM LINE: A man whose documented ties to Jeffrey Epstein include parties, plane rides, and hundreds of mentions in federal files is loudly insisting everyone ELSE needs to explain themselves. The projection is so transparent it’s almost impressive.
The question isn’t whether Trump knew Epstein—the evidence is overwhelming that he did. The question is why his Justice Department has faced such backlash for its handling of these files, and why the president is spending his holidays threatening people instead of, you know, governing.