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Trumpiana: Go away, spooky monster, go away!

 Trumpiana: Go away, spooky monster, go away!

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 Donald Trump was still gloating over his heady victory over Democrats in the longest shutdown war in American history when the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein came tumbling out of the closet to spook him, yet again.

Licking their wounds, Democrats in Congress lost no time in releasing a new tranche of cryptic emails sent by Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in prison, making tantalising insinuations about the POTUS.

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump,” wrote Epstein to his aide Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011. “Victim [name redacted] spent hours at my house with him…he has never once been mentioned.”

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Countering the “fake narrative to smear” Trump, the White House identified the victim as Virginia Giuffre, “who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.”

Another Epstein email in January 2019 to the writer Michael Wolff, author of several books on Trump’s presidency, claims “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop,” while acknowledging “he didn’t participate.”

Retaliating in a Truth Social post, Trump accused the Democrats of “using the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax to try and deflect from their massive failures, in particular, their most recent one — THE SHUTDOWN!”

“Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap,” warned Trump, who has long denied wrongdoing in connection with Epstein’s crimes, though he has acknowledged they were friendly in the 1990s. Last summer, he said he had expelled Epstein for luring spa attendants away from Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home and club.

In a counter attack, POTUS also directed the Justice Department, “together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with” everyone — from financial institutions to former president Bill Clinton — but himself.

“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem! Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!” wrote the POTUS grandiosely.

And as Trump faced heat from his MAGA base with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene questioning whether he is still an ‘America First’ president with his many trips abroad and focus on ending foreign wars, Trump was quick to denounce her as ‘Wacky Marjorie,’ who does nothing but “COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!”

And as MAGA rebels erupted again over Trump’s defense of H-1B visas arguing foreign labor is needed at times because U.S. workers do not have “certain talents,” he remained defiant. “MAGA was my idea. MAGA was nobody else’s idea,” Trump told Fox News. “I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else, and MAGA wants to see our country thrive.”

POTUS 45&47 than returned to his favourite pastime of making fun of Democratic Congressional leaders and bashing his predecessors Barack Obama (44) and Joe Biden (46), “by far, the worst President in American History.”

One Trump repost showed a picture of Obama’s 2012 inauguration. “A man using a different name swore on a bible he doesn’t believe in and betrayed a country he wasn’t born in,” the accompanying text said of Obama, repeating racist tropes.

He also accused “AUTOPEN Sleepy Joe Biden” of  weaponizing “Law Enforcement against his political opponent, while also persecuting many other innocent people.”

Trump also endorsed Greg Abbott, “the strong and highly respected Governor of Texas, a State I love and WON BIG three times,” for the passage of a “new, fair, and much improved, Congressional Map” that may give five new seats to “MAGA Republicans in the 2026 Midterm Elections.”

His Justice Department then joined a Republican lawsuit challenging California’s new congressional map that in a tit for tat gerrymandering move may cut Republicans’ share of the congressional delegation from nine to four seats out of 52, calling it “racial gerrymander.”

Meanwhile, as long lines formed outside food pantries with Trump refusing to use emergency funds to keep full food stamp benefits flowing to millions of poor Americans, the President hosted a private White House dinner with Wall Street executives.

He also attended a glitzy Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, where guests dressed as flappers and the theme was “A little party never killed nobody” — a line from a song in the film version of “The Great Gatsby,” according to a New York Times report.

Signifying his belief that there are no permanent enemies in diplomacy, Trump hosted Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaida commander who was once declared a terrorist by Washington with a 10 million dollar bounty.

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In a video that has gone viral, Trump presented al-Sharaa with a bottle of Trump Cologne playfully saying,”It’s the best fragrance. And the other one is for your wife.” As he sprayed a dab of perfume in al-Sharaa’s direction, he asked, “How many wives? One? With YOU guys, you never know!”

A follower Eric Daugherty approved saying “President Trump shows ONCE AGAIN he is the funniest president…Omg, how can’t you love him?”

Then out of the blue, he posted a “Blast from the past! — a 2008 clip from Express newspaper saying “Former JAMES BOND star SIR SEAN CONNERY is delighted he will officially open DONALD TRUMP’s £1 billion golf course resort in Scotland – because it will boost the country’s image around the world.”

Yet, a day after the release of the new Epstein emails, a12-foot sculpture depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein as friends reappeared on private property in Washington, D.C., following previous removals from federal sites.

How Trump wished he could sing away the ghost of Epstein like children do anytime they want to tell those monsters under the bed to “Go Away!”

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  • Arun Kumar served as the Washington-based North America Bureau Chief of the IANS, one of India's top news agencies, telling the American story for its subscribers spread around the world for 11 years. Before that Arun worked as a foreign correspondent for PTI in Islamabad and Beijing for over eight years. Since 2021, he served as the Editor of The American Bazaar.

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Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar served as the Washington-based North America Bureau Chief of the IANS, one of India's top news agencies, telling the American story for its subscribers spread around the world for 11 years. Before that Arun worked as a foreign correspondent for PTI in Islamabad and Beijing for over eight years. Since 2021, he served as the Editor of The American Bazaar.

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