• The Wall Street Journal reportedly obtained a 2003 letter from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, which allegedly included a sketch of a naked woman and a cryptic note about making each day “another wonderful secret”
• Trump slammed the WSJ‘s bombshell report about the letter as false, claiming, “I never wrote a picture in my life”
• Internet sleuths quickly poked holes in the president’s rebuttal by tracking down multiple doodles that Trump has sketched and signed over the years

Almost immediately after Donald Trump dismissed the latest allegation about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, internet sleuths identified a major flaw in his denial.

On Wednesday, July 17, The Wall Street Journal reported on a graphic letter that Trump allegedly gave Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. While the newspaper didn’t show a copy of the letter — which was reportedly part of a collection of well wishes that Ghislaine Maxwell assembled from friends of the billionaire — they described its contents as “bawdy.”

“It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker,” WSJ claimed. “A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.”

WSJ reported that Trump’s birthday message also included an imagined conversation between Trump and Epstein. In the fictional exchange, Trump says, “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.” Epstein replies, “Yes, we do, come to think of it.”

“Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?” Trump then asks Epstein, who answers, “As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.”

“The letter concludes: ‘Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,’ ” WSJ claimed.Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump pose together at Mar-a-Lago in 1997.

In an interview with WSJ, Trump denied writing the letter and threatened to sue them “just like I sued everyone else.”

“This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story,” he told the outlet. “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women… It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”

The internet quickly latched on to the president’s claim that he “never wrote a picture in his life.” Within minutes, critics began digging up a variety of well-documented Trump doodles.

Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger compiled several Trump sketches into a photo collage on X, with the caption, “Trump loves to draw. Just saying.”

Others were found on auction sites, including a 2004 cityscape skyline that was listed and auctioned off at Sotheby’s, a sketch of the Empire State Building that sold for $16,000 at Julien’s Auctions, a 2005 rendition of the Manhattan skyline that went for $29,184 at Nate D. Sanders Auctions, and a drawing of a tree with money falling from it that sold for $8,500 at Leland Little.

All of the auctioned doodles appear to feature the president’s distinctive signature.

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Trump even admitted to his prolific scribbling prowess in his 2010 book, Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success.

“Each year, I donate an autographed doodle to the Doodle for Hunger auction at Tavern on the Green,” he wrote. “It’s a great event.”
Donald Trump signs a copy of his new book “Think Big and Kick Ass” at Barnes & Noble on October 16, 2007.

Despite the counter-evidence was presented, Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., took to X to also try refuting the Wall Street Journal article.

“My father has a very specific way of speaking. People all over the world have mimicked it for decades. The insanity written in the Wall Street Journal AIN’T IT and everyone knows it,” he wrote. “Also in 47 years I’ve never seen him doodle once. Give me a break with the fake ‘journalisming.’ “

California Rep. Eric Swalwell replied to Don Jr.’s post with Kinzinger’s nine screenshots of Trump’s reported doodles.