US President Donald Trump Threatens To Sue Comedian Trevor Noah After Grammy Award Remarks

• The President of the United States, Donald Trump, criticised comedian Trevor Noah, the host of the 68th Grammy Awards ceremony, for a remark he made
• Noah roasted Trump and alleged that Trump was present at Jeffrey Epstein's Epstein Island, which has been linked to sex trafficking
• Trump threatened to sue Noah and trashed the Grammy Awards, calling them the worst and unwatchable

Tebogo Mokwena, affiliated with Briefly News, covered local and international politics, political analysis, and interviews in South Africa for Daily Sun and Vutivi Business News during his 10 years of experience.

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES — The President of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened to sue comedian Trevor Noah and criticised the Grammy Awards in one fell swoop.

X account Pop Base posted a screenshot of a post on Trump's Truth Social account on its @popbase X account. The post was shared a day after Noah hosted the 68th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, held in Los Angeles on 1 February 2026.

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Noah roasted rapper Nicki Minaj and said that she did not attend the awards because she was with Trump at the White House, discussing very important issues. Minaj responded and alleged that Noah had a boyfriend. Noah also mentioned Trump and alleged that Trump was on Jeffrey Epstein's island, where suspected sex trafficking allegedly took place.

What did Trump say?

Trump said that Noah was as bad a host of the Grammy Awards as Jimmy Kimmel was at the Academy Awards. He said Noah alleged that Trump and former United States president Bill Clinton were on Epstein Island. Trump emphatically denied that he was at Epstein's Island. He called Noah a loser and threatened him to "get his facts straight and get them straight fast."

"It looks like I'll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty $," he said.

View Trump's full post on X here:

Trevor Noah also recently defended African countries against criticism that Africa's progress and growth was slow. He was joined by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, and discussed how Western nations judge Africa's progress compared to their own historical contexts.

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Noah said that those who say Africa has not done well for itself ignore the real reasons behind the lack of growth. Mottley said that larger countries exercise a form of bullying towards other smaller countries by failing to put themselves in the smaller countries' shoes.

Anele Mdoda comments on Trevor Noah hosting Grammy Awards

In a related article, Briefly News reported that radio personality Anele Mdoda weighed in on Trevor Noah hosting the Grammy Awards for the 6th time. She spoke a few weeks before the Grammy Awards were hosted on 1 February 2026.

Mdoda, who is one of Trevor Noah's closest friends, shared a reaction of excitement at the news of Noah returning as the awards' host. South Africans were pleased with Noah's hosting skills.

"He really kept that ceremony watchable all these years. Respect," one netizen said.

Source: Briefly News