Trump Drawings Resurface After President Claims ‘I Never Wrote a Picture in My Life’
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Several drawings made by President Donald Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s resurfaced on Thursday after the president claimed to have “never wrote a picture in my life.”
The president made the claim after a Wall Street Journal report alleged that Trump had written a birthday letter to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, which included a drawing of a naked woman, complete with pubic hair formed out of Trump’s signature.
“This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story,” said Trump in response to the report. “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women.”
Despite his claim to have “never wrote a picture” in his life, Trump has sketched a number of drawings over the years, including a drawing of the Manhattan skyline dated 2004 – just one year after he is accused of drawing the naked woman for Epstein.
The 2004 Manhattan drawing was reportedly sketched by Trump for a charity art sale before being put up for auction again in 2019.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted a photo of the drawing on social media, Thursday, along with the caption, “I never wrote a picture in my life.”
Trump sketched another drawing of the Manhattan skyline in 2005, this time for another charity auction. It was put up for auction again in 2017.
These sketches from the early to mid-2000s were reportedly drawn with Sharpie markers.
Yet another sketch – this one displaying the Empire State Building – was produced by Trump for a charity auction in 1995, where it sold for less than $100. It was sold again at auction in 2017 for $16,000.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump’s alleged 2003 letter to Epstein “contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. 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.”
