Critics Claim Trump Let Out ‘Freudian Slip’ About Jeffrey Epstein

President Donald Trump on Monday denied ever visiting a private island belonging to late sex offender and his former friend Jeffrey Epstein.

But Trump’s critics are focusing on two unusual words he used when describing a potential trip to the infamous island: “the privilege.”

The president called it “such old history” and said Epstein “did something that was inappropriate.”

The “inappropriate” behavior was hiring some of Trump’s staff.

“He stole people that work for me,” Trump said. “I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He did it again, and I threw him out of the place. Person non grata. I threw him out, and that was it. I’m glad I did.”

But then he added unprompted that he never visited Little Saint James, Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and one alleged scene in his child sex trafficking operation.

“And by the way, I never went to the island,” Trump said, while accusing others of doing so. “I’ve, I never had the privilege of going to his island.”

“Authorities suspect that he molested hundreds of girls over a five- or six-year period in Palm Beach alone and possibly operated an international sex-trafficking organization around the world,” Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown told NPR.

And it was the president’s two words about the island that drew criticism on social media, with many shocked he would refer to “the privilege” of visiting it while denying he had done so: