Trump says he doesn’t ‘draw pictures.’ But many of his sketches sold at auction

A photograph shared by Leland Little Auctions shows ‘Money Tree’, a drawing by Donald Trump that sold for $8,500; another drawing of Manhattan skyline from Nate D Sanders Auctions; a sketch of the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey, from Julien’s. The President disputes WSJ reporting that he drew a picture for Epstein, but as a real estate mogul, Trump often sketched for charity

President Donald Trump mounted a vigorous rebuttal Thursday night to a report in The Wall Street Journal that he sent a birthday greeting with a sexually suggestive drawing to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. His alibi: “I don’t draw pictures,” he wrote on Truth Social.

But a review of the president’s past reveals that, for years, Trump was a high-profile doodler – or at least suggested he was. In the early 2000s, he regularly donated drawings to charities in New York. The drawings, many of which appear to be done with a thick, black marker and prominently feature his signature are not dissimilar to how the Journal describes the birthday note he sent Epstein.

“It takes me a few minutes to draw something, in my case, it’s usually a building or a cityscape of skyscrapers, and then sign my name, but it raises thousands of dollars to help the hungry in New York through the Capuchin Food Pantries Ministry,” he wrote in his 2008 book, ‘Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success.’ After Trump was elected president, some of the drawings he signed were auctioned off for thousands of dollars – even as he claimed “art may not be my strong point.”