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Trump
Lashes Out at Charlamagne Tha God Over Epstein Comments
President
Trump railed against the radio host after he said the administration’s handling
of the Jeffrey Epstein case had created an opportunity for “traditional
conservatives” to take back the Republican Party.
Adeel
Hassan
By Adeel
Hassan
Aug. 3,
2025
President
Trump railed at the radio host and author Charlamagne Tha God early Sunday
morning, after the host said that the administration’s handling of information
related to Jeffrey Epstein was fueling a “coup” in the Republican Party.
“I think
that traditional conservatives are going to take the Republican Party back,”
Charlamagne said on a Fox News program on Saturday hosted by Lara Trump, the
president’s daughter-in-law and a former co-chair of the Republican Party. “I
think there’s a political coup going on right now in the Republican Party that
people aren’t paying attention to,” Charlamagne said.
Mr. Trump
posted on Truth Social early Sunday, saying that Charlamagne “knows nothing
about me or what I have done.”
Mr. Trump
was friendly for nearly 15 years with Mr. Epstein, the disgraced
multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in a Manhattan
jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The Trump
administration has been lambasted for its refusal to release the federal files
of Mr. Epstein’s case, after the president and top officials had for months
suggested that they would expose hidden truths about his death. The reversal
triggered outrage among Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters.
Charlamagne,
who was born Lenard McKelvey and is best known as a host of the popular radio
show “The Breakfast Club,” said in the interview on Saturday that the episode
meant that “traditional conservatives” could “probably take their party back”
without angering the president’s MAGA base. “I think they’re going to do that,”
he said.
Ms. Trump
was skeptical. Charlamagne, who interviewed Kamala Harris before the 2024
election, went on to acknowledge that “Donald Trump is a once-in-a-lifetime,
one-on-one political juggernaut,” but maintained that “we have the opportunity
to have, like, a huge reset.”
Charlamagne
also said on Ms. Trump’s program that the comedian Jon Stewart should run for
president in 2028, and have his fellow late-night TV host Stephen Colbert as
his running mate, “because Colbert’s not going to have a job,” referring to the
announcement by CBS that it was canceling his show.
Adeel
Hassan, a New York-based reporter for The Times, covers breaking news and other
topics.
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