Trump Humiliated With Wild Epstein Joke at Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump was the target of jokes on the Kennedy Center stage on Sunday night as one comedian took aim at the president’s questionable connections.

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Comedian and TV host Bill Maher was being honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and it wasn’t long until the president’s name was mentioned. The president himself was not in attendance.

“I actually heard Trump may come tonight but he couldn’t make it,” Cummings said, according to Deadline, adding, “He got caught in sex traffic.”

Trump has denied knowing anything about the late sex offender’s crimes and maintains he was never involved in any wrongdoing, but many have expressed concern about his friendship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he was friends for nearly two decades until the pair fell out in the mid-2000s.

Cummings also poked fun at the controversial White House dinner Maher attended alongside Kid Rock and UFC CEO Dana White last year, joking that “seeing Dana White, Donald Trump and Kid Rock all together at the White House really proves there is no God.”

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment on Cummings’ jokes.

The joke was among a number of embarrassing moments for the president.

The ceremony was the first event held at the Kennedy Center since a federal judge ruled that Trump’s attempt to change the Center’s name to include his own was unlawful.

In May, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper struck down the president’s attempt to change the Kennedy Center’s name to The Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the grounds that he failed to seek congressional approval.

“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” Cooper wrote in his 93-page memo.

The white tarp erected over the center’s name by workers overseeing the removal of Trump’s name from the facade was still in place on Sunday night.

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Jay Leno told reporters that the tarp was “hilarious” as they walked down a red carpet bearing the center’s original name. Maher, meanwhile, labeled it “hysterical.”

Maher spoke to CNN on the red carpet about the insults the president has hurled at him, as well as the White House’s outrage at his being named as the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize and its attempt to block it.

“You know, the last 4 or 5 times he’s been public about me, it’s all back to yelling and screaming,” Maher told CNN’s Camila DeChalus, adding, “I’m this, I’m terrible, I’m a lunatic liberal, I’m a lunatic, I’m a lightweight, I’m a jerk. So we’re back to that. It’s okay.”

Despite that, Maher explained that he’d rather “the channels be open,” and that fighting and yelling are just the president’s “way of talking to people.”

He also joked that he wouldn’t be surprised if the White House attempted to prevent him from receiving the award once more before the show started.

“Anything could happen,” he told CNN.

Maher and Trump have often clashed in the past, although relations appeared to be improving after the comedian’s dinner at the White House last year.

The truce was short-lived, however, with the president launching multiple attacks against Maher via Truth Social in the intervening months, including describing him as a “highly overrated lightweight” and a “weak and ineffective person.”

A number of politicians from both sides of the aisle were in attendance, including a member of Trump’s Cabinet, who went out of his way to defend Trump.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters of the president’s takeover of the Kennedy Center that he believes Trump is “gonna try his darndest to make this building shine, and I think he’s gonna be successful.”