The release on Monday of the birthday messageDonald Trump allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 not only looked bad for the president, but it was really embarrassing for Vice President JD Vance.

The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee posted the message to the disgraced financier on social media.

The letter features what appears to be Trump’s signature with a drawing of a female body around a message that reads, in part, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

The Wall Street Journal reported the letter’s existence back in July, and Trump previously called it fake and sued the publication.

🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist.

Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files! pic.twitter.com/k2Mq8Hu3LY

— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) September 8, 2025

After the letter was made public on Monday, White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich claimed the signature on the note didn’t match Trump’s more recent signatures on official documents.

“Time for @newscorp [the company that owns the Journal and Fox News] to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!” he said on X.

White House press secretary Karoline Levitt also claimed the birthday message was a hoax.

“As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it,” she said on X.

However, the signature on the card does seem to match other instances of the president signing only his first name.

As a result, Trump was brutally mocked on Monday after the publication of the letter, and so was Vance, who, back in July when the birthday message story first broke, took to X........

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