Epstein Email Claims Trump Rated Melania A “Hot Piece Of A**”

The Moment

Newly released documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein allegedly include an email in which Epstein claims Donald Trump, not yet president at the time he’s describing, referred to Melania as a hot piece of a** the first weekend he met her.

According to a Feb. 1, 2026, report from a British tabloid that reviewed the material, Epstein sent the email on November 9, 2016, the day after Trump won the presidency. Writing to an unnamed friend, Epstein reportedly said he couldn’t believe Hillary Clinton lost, then veered into a memory from years earlier: flying on Trump’s plane, when Trump supposedly kept emerging from a bedroom raving about Melania’s looks in crude terms.

The same report says Trump’s name appears more than 3,200 times in the new cache of files posted by the Department of Justice, and that some of the more sensational claims about him were briefly taken down from the government site before being restored.

Trump has long denied any wrongdoing connected to Epstein and has, over the years, tried to distance himself from their past friendship. There’s no public indication in the available record that he’s addressed this specific quote from the email.

The Take

I’m going to say the quiet part out loud: if you’re shocked that Trump allegedly talked about Melania like this, you haven’t been paying attention since the Access Hollywood bus.

Is this email explosive? More like depressingly on-brand. A rich man allegedly bragging to another rich man about the woman he’s just met, reducing her to a hot piece while they cruise between mansions and private jets. It’s less a plot twist and more a deleted scene from the 2000s we all suspected existed.

What makes it disturbing isn’t just the language. It’s who is trading it. Epstein, a convicted sex offender who targeted minors, casually recounts how a future U.S. president supposedly talked about the future First Lady. That’s not gossip from some nightclub bathroom; that’s the private chatter of men who had real power over girls and women, and in Trump’s case, over the country.

And poor Melania, once again, is treated as a set dressing in a story about men. She’s not a person with a biography here; she’s a rating. A body part. A yes-or-no on a scale of how impressed the guys on the plane are. It’s like reading the group chat you always knew your ex and his friends had, only this one ends up in a federal file.

Does this email prove anything criminal about Trump? No. Does it add to the long, exhausting record of how he allegedly talks about women when he thinks the world isn’t listening? Absolutely. And when it intersects with Epstein, it reminds us of a darker truth: misogyny is often the soft launch of something much worse.

Receipts

Confirmed:

• Jeffrey Epstein was a financier who pleaded guilty in 2008 to sex offenses involving a minor in Florida, and he was later charged federally in 2019 with sex trafficking before dying in jail that same year, according to court records.
• Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were socially connected in the 1990s and early 2000s; photos show them at events together in Florida and New York, and in a 2002 magazine profile, Trump called Epstein a terrific guy who liked women on the younger side.
• Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein and has said publicly, including in 2019 comments at the White House, that the two had a falling out years before Epstein’s final arrest.
• The Department of Justice has overseen large-scale releases of Epstein-related materials since his death, including court files and investigative records, as reflected in federal case dockets.

Unverified / Reported:

• The specific email dated November 9, 2016, in which Epstein allegedly recounts Trump calling Melania a hot piece of a** is described in a British tabloid report that says it reviewed a new document dump posted on a Justice Department site. The email itself has not been widely reproduced in full by official channels.
• The claim that Trump’s name appears more than 3,200 times in the new cache, and that more outrageous claims about him were briefly removed from the DOJ site and later reinstated, also comes from that same report and has not been independently confirmed in public government summaries.

Friendship between Melania Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell reflected in the Epstein files

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— Minh Alexander minhalexander.bsky.social (@alexander_minh) February 1, 2026

Sources: Newly reported court-file materials described in a British tabloid story published February 1, 2026; federal court records from Epstein’s 2008 plea and 2019 case; Trump’s own on-record comments in a 2002 magazine profile and in 2019 remarks at the White House.

Backstory (For Casual Readers)

If you only half-followed the Epstein saga, here’s the quick refresher. Jeffrey Epstein was a wealthy money manager who moved in elite circles and was accused of running a sex-trafficking operation that targeted underage girls. He took a controversial plea deal in Florida in 2008, was re-arrested on federal charges in 2019, and died in jail that year in what was officially ruled a suicide.

Donald Trump and Epstein traveled in the same social circles in the 1990s and early 2000s, especially around Palm Beach. Photos from 2000 show Trump and Melania, then his girlfriend, posing with Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago. Trump later said he banned Epstein from his properties and downplayed their friendship after Epstein’s crimes became public.

Melania Knauss, a Slovenian-born model, began dating Trump in 1998, married him in 2005, and became First Lady in 2017. Throughout Trump’s rise, his language about women  from the infamous Access Hollywood tape to multiple accusations of misconduct (some upheld in civil court)  has been a recurring theme in how the public reads his character.

What’s Next

This latest email is part of a broader wave of Epstein-related documents that will likely keep trickling out, each one reviving questions about who knew what, when, and how they talked when they thought history wasn t listening.

For Trump, the political damage may be more cumulative than catastrophic. On its own, one more crude quote probably won’t move his most loyal supporters. But in an era when voters are exhausted by scandals, every fresh detail about his world pre-White House becomes another data point for moderates and independents sizing him up.

For Melania, it’s another reminder that her public image is still largely shaped by men around her: photographers, husbands, donors, and now a dead predator’s email. She rarely speaks about any of it, but these stories keep landing at her feet anyway.

And for the rest of us? We’re left to decide how much we care about what powerful men say behind closed doors. Are these just ugly words from an ugly era, or are they clues to how they use power when no one can push back?

Your turn: Do emails like this actually change how you see Trump and his circle, or do they just confirm what you already thought and add more noise to the pile?