Trump Lies About Not Knowing Prince Andrew Amid Epstein Scandal — But He Once Said Andrew Was 'a Lot of Fun'

“I don’t know Prince Andrew, but it’s a tough story, it’s a very tough story,” President Trump told reporters on Tuesday.

That’s quite different from what he told PEOPLE in 2000, saying of Andrew then, “He’s not pretentious. He’s a lot of fun to be with.”

Trump and Andrew were photographed together as recently as June, when the president met with the royal for a breakfast meeting during his last visit to the U.K. The pair was photographed walking outside St. James Palace, where they also met with the U.K.’s then-prime minister, Theresa May.
Another photograph shows Trump with Andrew at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in 2000, along with First Lady Melania Trump, when she and the president were dating.

Trump also bragged in a 2018 interview that he played 18 holes of golf with Andrew and beat him, according to Tom Newton Dunn, editor at Britain’s The Sun, which Trump has spoken to repeatedly.

The Duke of York’s official Twitter account also shared photos of Trump and Andrew during their June breakfast meeting.