President Donald Trump, a 79-year-old man who controls the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, spent the wee hours of Monday morning threatening to sue a comedian for making a joke at the Grammys.
Trevor Noah, hosting the ceremony for the sixth and final time, delivered the offending quip right after Billie Eilish won Song of the Year: “That is a Grammy that every artist wants… almost as much as Trump wants Greenland. Which makes sense, I mean, because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton, so…”
As the audience reacted, Noah reminded everyone, “I told you it’s my last year! What are you gonna do about it?”
Trevor Noah takes another jab at Donald Trump #Grammys: “Song of the Year — that is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton” pic.twitter.com/quUWEpX4NL
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) February 2, 2026
THE MELTDOWN: Trump did exactly what you’d expect. He fired off a Truth Social screed calling the Grammy Awards “the WORST, virtually unwatchable!” and comparing Noah to his longtime nemesis Jimmy Kimmel.
“Noah said, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. WRONG!!!” Trump fumed. “I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false and defamatory, statement, have never been accused being there, not even by the Fake News Media.”
Then came the threats: “Noah, a total loser, better get his facts straight, and get them straight fast. It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$.”
BUT BUT BUT: Here’s the thing—while there’s no evidence Trump visited Epstein’s island specifically, his documented ties to the convicted sex trafficker are extensive. Trump was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for approximately 15 years before they allegedly fell out in the mid-2000s.
The issue isn’t whether you went to an island. It’s whether you abused children.
A 2020 email from the Southern District of New York included in the December Epstein files release stated: “Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported.” Trump was listed as a passenger on eight flights between 1993 and 1996—one of which included an unnamed 20-year-old woman.
Former Mar-a-Lago employees have said they were sent to provide services to Epstein for years. And one of Epstein’s victims testified that accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell attempted to make her “available” to Trump and his friends, with Maxwell allegedly saying things like “Oh I think he likes you. Aren’t you lucky.”
OF COURSE: White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also jumped in, calling Noah “a giant loser who will be forever known for being unceremoniously kicked off The Daily Show for being a complete psychopath.” (Of course, Noah left the show voluntarily, but who’s counting?)
Noah also triggered MAGA during the evening by mocking Trump’s bizarre friendship with Nicki Minaj, doing an impression of the president saying, “Actually Nicki, I have the biggest a–. I have it. Everybody’s saying it Nicki.”
WHY IT MATTERS: This isn’t just about a thin-skinned president rage-tweeting at 2 AM. Trump has weaponized defamation suits to silence critics—pointing to his settlement with George Stephanopoulos and his ongoing lawsuit against CBS. The threat isn’t empty posturing; it’s part of a pattern of using legal intimidation to chill speech.
A sitting president threatening to sue comedians for jokes about his well-documented associations with a dead sex trafficker is, apparently, just another Monday in America.