Groundhog Day 2026 can only mean three things:
(1) Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
(2) the government shutdown continues
and
(3) President Trump is threatening another law suit
After staying up late to watch the Grammys (which he described as “virtually unwatchable!”) Trump took to Truth Social threatening to send his “lawyer to sue” host Trevor Noah over a joke. What upset Trump was not the countless celebrities wearing “ICE OUT” pins or the multitude of winners who took to the stage to denounce his administration’s immigration policy.
This includes the big winner of the evening Bad Bunny who used his time on stage to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
“Before I say thanks to God,” Bad Bunny said, “I’m going to say ‘ICE out. We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.”
But it wasn’t that which sent Trump to Truth at 1 am threatening legal action, it was something he is far more sensitive about - being tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
When Billie Eilish won the Grammy for song of the year she too denounced ICE. Once again Trump seemed to pay little attention, but became enraged when Noah followed Eilish’s statement with an Epstein joke:
“That is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland,” Noah said “which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton.”
Trump’s response? A Truth Social post denying that he spent any time on Epstein Island, charging Noah with defamation and threatening to “sue” him “for plenty $.” “Get ready Noah,” he ended his post “I’m going to have some fun with you!”
This follows the Department of Justice’s release late last Friday of millions of files related to the government’s investigation into Epstein. Based on a search of the latest batch of files, the New York Times reported “more than 5,300 files contain[ed] more than 38,000 references to Mr. Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, and other related words and phrases.”
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and as recently as Saturday told reporters that the latest batch of files “absolves” him of any wrongdoing in the matter.
