The response was a reference to a birthday message Trump allegedly wrote in 2003 to his then-friend Jeffrey Epstein, who would be convicted of sex crimes in 2008 and later died in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

President Trump has taken aim at late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon in the days since Stephen Colbert's top-rated CBS show was canceled, predicting that both of the Jimmys will soon be out of a job and taking credit in advance.