The photo shows Trump with his arm around Clinton as they pose with their spouses, Bill Clinton and Melania, The Daily Mail reported. The same estate later served as the backdrop for Trump’s victory speech during the 2016 Republican primary season.
During that speech, Trump said of the general election, “I’m going to go after one person: Hillary Clinton.”
Trump previously referenced Clinton’s attendance at his wedding when questioned about his past political donations during the first Republican presidential debate.
“Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding, and she came to my wedding,” Trump said. “She had no choice because I gave to a foundation.”
Reports at the time indicated Trump may have donated as much as $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation after the wedding.
Clinton campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri responded by saying the two were acquaintances.
“He invited her. They’re acquaintances. This is long, long established,” Palmieri said. “It hurt her feelings, I’m sure, to hear him suggest that he didn’t actually want her there for her company.”
The two families moved in similar social circles in New York and Palm Beach in the early 2000s. Their daughters, Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton, have also spoken publicly about their friendship.
Clinton later reflected on her past impression of Trump during an appearance on “Morning Joe.”
“I didn’t know him that well, but I did know him,” she said. “It’s been most surprising to me to see somebody who was affable and was good company and had a reputation of being kind of bigger than life really traffic in a lot of the prejudice and paranoia. And some of the comments that he’s made, which have been so divisive and mean spirited, doesn’t quite fit with what I thought I knew about him.”
They were pals in 2005!
Hillary and Bill Clinton at Donald Trump and Melania's wedding reception, 2005 https://t.co/xEY1rXMMrv pic.twitter.com/o24McUJIMa— JBONTHEROCKS (@mitzvah88) February 14, 2026
Clinton sharply criticized Republican lawmakers after she was questioned about so-called Pizza-gate and UFOs during her deposition in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
“I don’t know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein. I never went to his island. I never went to his homes,” Clinton said Thursday after her testimony.
“It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizza-gate, one of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet.”
Clinton spoke to reporters following a closed-door congressional session at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center near the Clintons’ home in Westchester County, New York.
Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to appear before lawmakers at the same venue on Friday, becoming the first former president compelled to testify in a congressional investigation.
The Clintons initially resisted Republican-led efforts to require their testimony but agreed after facing the possibility of being held in contempt of Congress.
The hearing was briefly disrupted shortly after it began when Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., took a photograph of the former secretary of state, violating confidentiality rules governing the private session.
Clinton’s attorneys requested that the proceedings be paused after the photograph began circulating on social media.
The closed-door hearing was being recorded, but any footage must be reviewed by Clinton’s lawyers before it is released. The deposition resumed within an hour.
Clinton later asked Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who is overseeing the deposition, whether the press could be allowed into the hearing after the photograph surfaced. Comer denied the request.
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