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Time of India
20-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Trump says he doesn't 'draw pictures.' But many of his sketches sold at auction
A photograph shared by Leland Little Auctions shows 'Money Tree', a drawing by Donald Trump that sold for $8,500; another drawing of Manhattan skyline from Nate D Sanders Auctions; a sketch of the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey, from Julien's. The President disputes WSJ reporting that he drew a picture for Epstein, but as a real estate mogul, Trump often sketched for charity President Donald Trump mounted a vigorous rebuttal Thursday night to a report in The Wall Street Journal that he sent a birthday greeting with a sexually suggestive drawing to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. His alibi: "I don't draw pictures," he wrote on Truth Social. But a review of the president's past reveals that, for years, Trump was a high-profile doodler - or at least suggested he was. In the early 2000s, he regularly donated drawings to charities in New York. The drawings, many of which appear to be done with a thick, black marker and prominently feature his signature are not dissimilar to how the Journal describes the birthday note he sent Epstein. "It takes me a few minutes to draw something, in my case, it's usually a building or a cityscape of skyscrapers, and then sign my name, but it raises thousands of dollars to help the hungry in New York through the Capuchin Food Pantries Ministry," he wrote in his 2008 book, 'Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success.' After Trump was elected president, some of the drawings he signed were auctioned off for thousands of dollars - even as he claimed "art may not be my strong point. "
Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump Claims He ‘Never Wrote a Picture in My Life.' He Actually Drew Plenty of Them
This evening, The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report on letters allegedly gifted to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday and compiled in a 2003 album by Ghislane Maxwell, also a convicted sex offender. According to the newspaper, among the dozen of letters from Epstein's associates was a note bearing Donald Trump's name outlined by a drawing of a naked woman that also enclosed the text: 'We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.' The president on Tuesday denied that he wrote the letter or drew the picture in an interview with the Journal, threatening to sue the newspaper if it published the story. 'I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women,' he said, according to the Journal. 'It's not my language. It's not my words.' Despite the president's insistence that's he's never doodled during his 79 years on earth, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. Take for example, this mediocre sketch of the Manhattan skyline drawn by Trump that raked in $30,000 at an auction. Featuring the Trump Tower at the center, the picture was created by the now-president two decades ago for a charity event. Then there's the marker drawing of the Empire State Building that Trump scrawled for another charity auction in 1995, which sold in 2017 for $16,000. Trump himself has boasted about his artistic benevolence, and in a 2010 book titled Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success, he wrote: 'Sometimes being a giver will open you up to new talents. Each year I donate an autographed doodle to the Doodle for Hunger auction at Tavern on the Green. It takes me a few minutes to draw something.… Art may not be my strong point, but the end result is help for people who need it.' According to Journal, the album was part of the documents reviewed by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell following allegations of sexual abuse. It's unclear if any of the pages in the leather-bound collection are part of the Trump administration's recent examination. News of the alleged letter arrives amid an ongoing MAGA revolt as the president's supporters continue to condemn the Justice Department's memo announcing the administration's belief that Epstein killed himself in prison, and that the department was effectively closing its case. The president's relationship with Epstein has been under renewed scrutiny since. The pair were photographed together many times during the 1990s and early 2000s, were shot on video at a party together, and Trump appeared in flight logs for Epstein's private jet. Trump today continued to deny that he signed the letter or scribbled the bawdy drawing. 'The Wall Street Journal printed a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein,' he ranted on Truth Social. 'These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don't draw pictures.' More from Rolling Stone Republicans Obey Trump, Vote to Cut Funding for NPR and PBS 'Five-Alarm Fire': Texas Dem Sounds Off on Trump's Bid to Gerrymander Midterms The No Kings Playbook to Confront Trump's 'Authoritarian Breakthrough' Best of Rolling Stone The Useful Idiots New Guide to the Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence Solve the daily Crossword
