President Donald Trump arrives to speak at an event in the East Room of the White House on July 18, 2025. Alex Brandon.
Even President Donald Trump doesn’t seem to think his angry and chaotic efforts to end the renewed storm over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will work.
He warned in a weekend social media post that “nothing will be good enough” to satisfy what he claims are leftists and troublemakers fanning the uproar.
In reality, however, the controversy was heightened by Trump’s defensive outbursts following his aides’ clumsy efforts to quell conspiracies they fueled before the 2024 election over Epstein’s death in prison and a supposed celebrity client list.
But Trump’s Truth Social post raises important questions.
Will the intrigue, which differs from most of his political tangles since it set the president against his own base, be accelerated by new revelations, including curiosity over Trump’s past ties to Epstein, an accused sex trafficker?
Or, after two weeks of internal recriminations, will the MAGA movement unite to protect its patron following a Wall Street Journal report Thursday on Trump and Epstein, which the president used to set up his trademark assault on “fake news”?
Trump did everything he could to ignite new political fires Sunday to distract attention from the Epstein saga. He demanded that the NFL’s Washington Commanders play again as the Redskins and blasted Obama administration officials over intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help him.
