President Donald Trump temporarily tabled his grudge against media mogul Rupert Murdoch to wish the billionaire happy birthday.
Though the president is currently suing Murdoch for $10 billion, he had nothing but praise for the news tycoon in a video played at his posh 95th birthday celebration in New York City on Saturday night.
Fox News’ Bret Bair introduced the recording, in which Trump called the former chair of Fox Corp. and News Corp “legendary” and “one of a kind,” while also praising him for his “courage, vision, and determination” and how he’s “changed the world,” according to the Murdoch-owned tabloid New York Post.
The video had no hints of Trump’s current beef with Murdoch, which stems from a much more provocative birthday message the president allegedly sent to well-heeled sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein that was exposed by The Wall Street Journal last July.
The text of the note, which was reportedly part of a book of letters Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday, features a cryptic exchange between “Donald” and “Jeffrey,” outlined with the shape of a woman’s figure and with Trump’s spiky signature appearing at the bottom to look like pubic hair.
