Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over Epstein joke at Grammys
Awards host alluded to president’s association with late sex offender in awards ceremony remarksUS politics – live updatesGrammys host Trevor Noah has been threatened with legal action by Donald Trump for a joke during Sunday’s awards ceremony about the president’s connection to the...
<p>Awards host alluded to president’s association with late sex offender in awards ceremony remarks</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/02/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-trevor-noah-ice-minnesota-minneapolis-cuba-latest-news-updates">US politics – live updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Grammys host <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/trevor-noah">Trevor Noah</a> has been threatened with legal action by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> for a joke during Sunday’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/01/grammy-awards-bad-bunny-kendrick-lamar-anti-ice">awards ceremony</a> about the president’s connection to the disgraced late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.</p><p>Trump fired off an angry post on his Truth Social platform shortly after the comedian said the song of the year award was “a Grammy that every artist wants – almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/trevor-noah-trump-grammys">Continue reading...</a>
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