Donald Trump raises eyebrows after making 'threesome' joke about his 'beautiful sons'
President Donald Trump left onlookers stunned after making an unexpected quip about his ‘beautiful sons’.
Trump had been speaking for around an hour at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota on 1 July, when he began to comment on how Roosevelt and his son both received the Medal of Honor.
“Except for Arthur and Douglas MacArthur, they're the only father and son pair to receive our nation's highest military award for courage above and beyond the call of duty,” he said.
He then looked at his two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, in the audience and joked that he could present the military honour to them.
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“Now, as I see my two beautiful sons sitting there, I think I'm going to give one to myself, one to them, and we'll have a threesome,” the president said.
The comment got a laugh from the crowd, as Trump went on: “OK I’ll pick out one of the two. I’ll give them the Congressional Medal of Honor for something for their genius at hunting, and I’ll get one for taking on Russia, Russia, Russia, or something, and we’ll have a third pair now.”
The unusual use of the word ‘threesome’ sparked conversation online, with one person writing on X: “There’s got to have been a better way to phrase that.”
Another said: “This is the kind of joke that makes the room go silent before anyone decides how to react.”
Someone else penned: “Every time I see a quote on a video like this, I think surely that cannot be what he actually said surely this has to be a weird paraphrase. It never is.”
Shortly after he made the comments, Trump said that it was ‘dangerous’ for him to joke because the ‘fake news is up there’.
“When I joke, I learned earlier, don’t be sarcastic in politics,” he added.
The US leader is a proud father of five - sharing Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr with his first wife Ivana, as well as welcoming Tiffany with Marla Maples and his youngest child, Barron Trump, with current wife, Melania Trump.
Earlier this month, he left his social media followers confused after praising an unknown woman in a deleted Father's Day post on Truth Social.
Shared on his account the day before Father's Day, Trump honoured a 'great daughter' alongside a photo of a woman with no relation to him, which was later reported to be Margo Catsimatidis, wife of billionaire Trump supporter John Catsimatidis.
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'I love inflation'
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For context, the US’ current inflation rate sits at a hefty 4%, the highest rate since April 2023.
War crimes don't count if the enemy has done bad things too
When asked by a reporter at Easter how it isn't a war crime to strike Iran's bridges and power plants, Trump responded: "Because they killed 45,000 people in the last month. They kill protesters. They are animals, and we have to stop them."
Describing the Iran ceasefire as 'shooting in a moderate manner'
In a June 2026 press conference, Trump said when being questioned on the shaky ceasefire with Iran: “It's a different part of the world, you know. I'd say in that part a ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner.”
A bombshell Pearl Harbor joke
In a March 2026 press briefing with Japanese prime minster Sanae Takaichi, Trump made a joke about the 1941 attack on the US.
A Japanese journalist asked Trump about why the US didn't inform its allies about its plans to attack Iran, to which he responded by saying that the US 'went in very hard' and 'didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise'.
He then said: “Who knows better about surprise than Japan?”
While this comment drew polite laughter from US officials in the meeting, the room was then plunged into silence at Trump's next remark, in which he said to Sanae: "Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"
Saying the Biden administration spent $8 million making mice transgender
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PBS later fact-checked this and concluded that this claim was false, with PBS News Hour's White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López saying 'the idea that scientists are making mice transgender is false'.
"These experiments were studying the effects of gender-affirming hormones on asthma and on whether gender-affirming hormones increase breast cancer risk," Barrón-López explained.
Topics: Donald Trump, US News
Claire Reid