Giant version of Epstein birthday card allegedly from Trump is placed on National Mall in DC

Source: Independent

A ten-foot-tall mockup of a reported birthday message from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein that the president allegedly penned to Epstein in 2003 appeared overnight on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol.

It is the first of its kind to appear in 2026, it’s the latest effort by left-leaning organizations to highlight Donald Trump’s past ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile and alleged sex trafficker who died in federal custody in 2019, through art pieces in downtown Washington, D.C. A statue of the president and the pedophile laughing and holding hands appeared at various locations around the city in the fall of 2025, lasting in one for less than a day.

The newest display, constructed by a group calling itself The Secret Handshake, omits the suggestive references made in the birthday message to Epstein obtained and released by House investigators last year, which was purported to be authored by the president. It instead bore the inscription: “Happy birthday to a ‘Terrific guy!’”, inside the same sketch of a nude woman from the original note. The same group was behind the statue that cropped up repeatedly last year.

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A news release from the Secret Handshake stated that the art display was timed around the dead pedophile’s birthday, January 20 — which also this year happens to be the one-year anniversary of Trump’s second inauguration.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-birthday-card-trump-national-mall-b2903347.html

Giant version of Epstein card allegedly from Trump is placed on National Mall

— The Independent (@the-independent.com) 2026-01-19T16:21:48.213Z