Is a photo showing Melania Trump kissing Jeffrey Epstein an authentic image and was it “unseen” until aired by Stephen Colbert? No, that’s not true: The photo is not real and it was not shown on an episode of CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The Hive Moderation AI content detection tool rated the image as 99% fake.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared on X on August 12, 2025. The caption below the image read “EPSTEIN F*CKED HER.” Below that was a screenshot from a YouTube video that read:

Trump GOES NUTS After Stephen Colbert AIRS Melania’s UNSEEN Epstein Secrets On Live TV

The Hive Moderation AI content detection tool concluded with a 99.9% certainty that the image was “likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content.”

Source: screenshot of HiveModeration.com by Lead Stories

A search of YouTube for videos that matched the title in the meme found several examples using the fake photo as a thumbnail image, but none of them actually included the image in the video.

A search of President Donald Trump’s post on his Truth Social timeline also revealed posts criticizing Colbert, but none supported the claim that “Trump GOES NUTS After Stephen Colbert AIRS Melania’s UNSEEN Epstein Secrets On Live TV.”