Jimmy Fallon Says Trump's Changing Story On Epstein Will Lead To Shocking Conclusion
Playing off Trump's recent suggestion that Democrats could have planted his name in the files of the heavily connected sex offender, the 'Tonight Show' host cracked:
'Trump went from saying there are no files to I'm not in the files to I'm only in there because the files were changed. By next week we're gonna find out that Trump is Jeffrey Epstein.'
Fast-forward to 2:47 for a more complete look at Fallon's bit:
Fallon's joke follows a run of twists in the president's reaction to the files.
After hyping the release of documents related to the long-dead predator, Trump called the files a hoax and the Justice Department announced there was no client list.
The list had been promoted by Republicans and dangled as red meat for conspiracy-minded supporters of the president, some of whom are angry over his about-face.
Trump, who was reportedly told by Attorney General Pam Bondi that he is mentioned in the files (though the context is not known), recently urged GOP leaders to change the subject by making unfounded accusations about President Barack Obama and the 2016 election. The story of his friendship with Epstein has also taken a few turns.
Related...
Trump's Shifting Explanations Are Prolonging The Epstein Scandal He Wants To End
Trump Implies Epstein Poached Virginia Giuffre From Mar-A-Lago Spa
'What The F**k?': Jon Stewart Stunned By 2 Words In Trump's Latest Epstein Denial
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
New York Times
9 minutes ago
- New York Times
Corrections: Aug. 7, 2025
An article on Tuesday about jurists losing faith in President Trump's Justice Department misstated Andrew Wiederhorn's role with the restaurant chain Fatburger. He was previously a chief executive of the chain and founded its parent company. He did not create the restaurant chain. A picture caption with an article on Wednesday about a growing debate in Japan between those who defend pacifism as a national virtue and those who think the country must abandon it referred incorrectly to a treaty that Japan has not signed. It is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, not the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. An article on Wednesday about how the Trump administration will gain access to the standardized test scores and grade point averages of all applicants to Columbia and Brown University misstated the findings of an SAT report from the College Board. The report found that 1 percent of the African American high school graduates who took the SAT in 2024 scored between 1400 and 1600, the highest possible scores, and 27 percent of the Asian graduates scored at that level. It is not the case that, of all the high school graduates who scored between 1400 and 1600 in 2024, 1 percent were African American and 27 percent were Asian. An article on July 31 about Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva voicing frustration with President Trump over tariffs misidentified birds roaming the presidential palace lawns. They were rheas, not emus. An article on Wednesday about how Texas Republicans are hoping the surge of Hispanic support for President Trump in 2024 will last through the 2026 midterm elections misstated the percentage of votes that Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, won in Starr County in the 2024 elections. It was 69 percent, not 60 percent. An article on Wednesday about the Trump administration's plans to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes misstated the amount of money the Georgia Bright Communities Coalition was using to provide free rooftop solar panels to about 800 Georgia households. It is about $12 million of a $156 million Solar for All grant, not the entire $156 million grant amount. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Fox News
10 minutes ago
- Fox News
Dean Cain 'proud' to be among the 'patriots' who stepped up to join ICE
Actor Dean Cain sheds light on joining I.C.E. and why he got involved in law enforcement on 'Fox News @ Night.'
CBS News
10 minutes ago
- CBS News
Why a Blaine man built a giant guitar visible from the sky in his backyard
In the land of Prince and Bob Dylan, there's a music tribute that you can see from the sky. On his five-acre property in Blaine, Minnesota, Erik Lund has plenty of space to fine-tune his golf game and his guitar game. "That one I bought out of California and that one is a 2550," said Lund. "Collector's edition gig." He's had a love for music his entire life. In the big hairband days of the 80's, Lund was a drummer and a lead singer for a band called Bad Credit which was a shout-out to their credit scores at the time. "Yeah, I was blessed with great hair. I bleached it white, and we rocked," said Lund. But his favorite guitar is one that doesn't make a sound. Wanting to pay tribute to rock 'n' rollers who inspired him, like Jimmy Page and Randy Rhoads, he got the idea to build a work of art in his backyard. "I just thought, I've always wanted to do something weird like that, and why not," said Lund. He used his Les Paul guitar as a template, laid out a design on his lawn, then dug it up and had concrete poured into the shape of his six-string. He added a metal fire pit where the guitar pick-ups would be. The concrete guitar is 22 feet wide and 72 feet long, making it easy to see from the sky. Especially with an airport just a few miles away. And that's noteworthy, because an aerial image of the guitar showed up on Zillow, and then on the Facebook page Quirky Minnesota. where it's gotten nearly 2,000 likes. People loved the mystery and mystique with some speculating that Bob Dylan lived there. "I made a couple of comments on there saying, oh yeah, it doesn't really belong to anybody famous," said Lund. "The neighbors don't even know it's here." He was never seeking attention for this. But if the view from up top gets people thinking about rock 'n' roll, then he knows he struck the right chords. "It is different and if somebody sees it they are going to go wow, that is different," said Lund. "It's just for the musicians. For the guys that spend all that time doing that. And the ones that are ultra-talented." Lund said he hopes to add more parts to the guitar in the future. He also wanted to thank Kurt's Construction for all the time they spent pouring concrete for his crazy idea.
