WASHINGTON — President Trump flipped off a person who shouted that he was a “pedophile protector” during a Tuesday trip to a Ford plant in Michigan.
A clearly irritated president pointed and twice mouthed “f–k you” from an elevated platform at the unidentified heckler — then extended his middle finger.
White House communications director Steven Cheung confirmed the authenticity of the video to The Post.
“A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response,” Cheung said.
The incident was not seen by members of the traveling White House press pool, initially creating doubt about the video’s authenticity.
The “pedophile protector” heckle was a clear reference to the Justice Department’s slow release of files on notorious late sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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The ongoing release of files was mandated by a transparency law that Trump unsuccessfully attempted to derail last year, framing interest in Epstein as a Democratic “hoax” designed to smear him for his association with the disgraced financier.
Trump has said he broke off his friendship with Epstein for poaching Mar-a-Lago staff years before the pedophile was initially arrested in 2006.
