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When was the last time Trump and Clinton were photographed together?
Executive summary
The most recent widely reported public photographs of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton together date to events in 2000: a June 16, 2000 visit to Trump Tower and a U.S. Open appearance later that year, images released by the Clinton Presidential Library and published by outlets including Politico and Hindustan Times [1] [2] [3]. Getty Images also hosts extensive photo collections showing both men at later high‑profile events such as the January 20, 2025 inauguration, but those search result snippets describe Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s attendance rather than identifying a specific new photo of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump together [4] [5].
1. Old photos, new attention: why the 2000 images matter
Photos taken in 2000 — including Biden‑era descriptions of a Trump Tower meeting on June 16, 2000 and images from a Trump box at the U.S. Open — are the pictures most consistently cited when reporters and archivists document Trump and Bill Clinton together; the Clinton Digital Library’s finding aid explicitly lists photographs of Clinton greeting Trump in 2000 and the Clinton Library released a set of about two dozen images from that period now circulating online [1] [3] [2].
2. What the pictures actually show — and how they’ve been used
Published frames from June and September 2000 show convivial greetings, laughter, and group photos that include Melania Trump and others; Politico and Hindustan Times describe images in which the men are “yukking it up” or laughing while photographed at Trump Tower and a tennis tournament box at Flushing Meadows [3] [2]. Snopes notes that additional photos from the same events show friendly interaction and that claims that a single circulated image proves a sexually improper act are misleading; Snopes emphasizes multiple photographs from the same, heavily photographed setting and questions the plausibility of such conduct amid White House photographers and crowds [6].
3. Are there more recent photos after 2000?
Search results show Getty Images galleries that include photographs of both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump at the January 20, 2025 inauguration and many other images of Trump with Hillary Clinton in campaign and debate settings [4] [5]. However, the Getty snippets refer to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton attending the 2025 inauguration and to large image collections; available sources do not specifically say those galleries include a new, direct Bill Clinton–Donald Trump portrait akin to the 2000 Trump Tower/U.S. Open images [4] [5]. Therefore, the clearest documented pairing remains the 2000 photos released by the Clinton archive [1] [3].
4. New social media claims and the Epstein revelations
The 2000 photos have resurfaced amid November 2025 media coverage of Epstein‑related email releases and ensuing social‑media speculation about Trump, Clinton and Epstein; outlets including Reuters, CNBC, ABC, Deadline and others report that Trump publicly called on the DOJ to investigate Epstein’s ties to Clinton and other figures after material from the Epstein estate and congressional releases stoked renewed attention [7] [8] [9] [10]. Some of that attention has tied the resurfaced 2000 photos to lurid, unverified online claims (including a widely shared email suggesting “photos”); journalists and fact‑checkers warn that circulating images and leaked emails do not equate to verified evidence of sexual activity between the two men [6] [11] [12].
5. Conflicting signals and how outlets framed them
Major news organizations reported Trump’s call for investigations into Epstein ties as a political move to shift focus from his own connections to Epstein; coverage is explicit that flight logs and past statements have been used to argue both for and against various allegations — for example, ABC notes flight logs showing Clinton traveled on Epstein’s aircraft on several trips but that records do not place Clinton or Trump on trips to Epstein’s island, and Clinton’s spokesperson has denied wrongdoing in response to released emails [9] [10]. At the same time, some outlets (e.g., Telegraph, LGBTQ Nation) documented the viral online reaction to an Epstein email that jokingly referenced “photos,” and those outlets report denials and uncertainty from Epstein’s associates [11] [13].
6. Bottom line and reporting limits
Available sources most reliably identify the year 2000 as when Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were photographed together in images released by the Clinton Presidential Library and covered by Politico, Snopes, Hindustan Times and others [1] [3] [2] [6]. Claims that newer, conclusively identifyable photos show sexual conduct between them are not supported in the cited reporting; fact‑checks and archive descriptions emphasize the convivial nature of the 2000 photos and caution against conflating archive images with sensational online conjecture [6] [3]. If you want, I can pull or summarize the specific Clinton Library photo captions and dates or scan Getty’s indexed captions to check whether a plainly identified post‑2000 Bill Clinton–Donald Trump portrait exists in their 2025 coverage [1] [4].