Hunter Biden unloaded on Donald Trump in a new interview, saying he would tell Trump to “go f**k his f**king self” and mocking what he called Trump’s years long obsession with tormenting his father. The former first son made the comments during an appearance on “The Jim Acosta Show,” the independent program the former CNN anchor now hosts, and clips spread quickly on X after being posted by the account Marco Foster.
Hunter Biden waved off any idea of taking the high road. He acted out how a more diplomatic version of himself might talk about staying civil and keeping things constructive with a powerful official, then rejected the whole premise, making clear he has no interest in playing nice. His reasoning was personal. Hunter Biden said Trump has spent roughly ten years coming after him and attacking Joe Biden, and he singled out one jab in particular: the framed picture of an autopen that Trump had placed on the White House colonnade, which Hunter described as a deliberate move to demean his father.
That detail is real. In September 2025, Trump had a framed image of an autopen mounted next to a photo of himself along what the White House calls “The Presidential Walk of Fame,” on the colonnade near the Rose Garden. The display was tied to a Republican led argument that aides, not Joe Biden, used an autopen to sign official documents and pardons late in his term. Joe Biden has pushed back hard on that, telling the New York Times that he personally made every clemency and pardon decision and that autopen use is legal and long predates him. For Hunter Biden, the colonnade stunt clearly registered as a personal insult aimed squarely at his family.
The autopen fight has been one of the most persistent attacks on the Biden family since they left office. Trump has called Joe Biden’s use of the device one of the biggest scandals in a century, his Justice Department opened an investigation into the former administration’s clemency decisions, and Senate Republicans launched a probe into Biden’s mental fitness while in office. Biden and his allies have dismissed the whole effort as a distraction. That is the backdrop Hunter Biden was reacting to, and it explains why a picture of a signing machine hit him as far more than a joke.
Even while venting, Hunter Biden drew one firm line. He said he would never resort to physical violence against Trump, and he framed telling him off as a matter of basic self respect rather than aggression. He came back to a rhetorical question more than once, asking what kind of man he would be if he did not at least say exactly how he feels. It was a way of casting the profanity as principle instead of a loss of composure.
From there, Hunter Biden pivoted to a challenge he has issued before. A self described UFC fan, he said he has now challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a cage match three times and has never heard back. That tracks with the record. In April, Hunter Biden said he was fully in on a fight that filmmaker Andrew Callaghan was trying to organize, and in June he closed a long open letter to podcaster Joe Rogan, written after the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn, by daring Don Jr. to meet him in a cage anywhere but the South Lawn. Don Jr. has not publicly accepted any of it.
Then came the punchline. Hunter Biden joked that the cage match is how he plans to pay off all his debt, floating the bout as a potential payday. The line plays on his well documented financial and legal troubles, and it captured the tone of the whole clip, which swung between real anger and the self aware humor that has defined his recent run online.
The cage match talk has drawn reactions of its own. When Hunter Biden issued the June challenge, MMA fighter Sean Strickland fired back in defense of the Trump family, while Don Jr. spent that weekend posting celebratory photos from the White House event rather than engaging. The pattern has held since: Hunter Biden keeps raising the stakes in public, and the Trump side largely ignores the bait, which only gives him more room to keep talking.
For years, Hunter Biden was treated as a political liability, tied up in tax and gun cases before his father pardoned him in December 2024. Since reemerging on X in the spring of 2025, he has rebuilt himself into an unfiltered online presence, sitting for a long and surprisingly candid podcast with Candace Owens, giving a combative New York Times interview, and firing off viral posts aimed at Trump and at Democrats who wanted him to stay quiet. “The Jim Acosta Show” comments are the latest chapter in that reinvention, and they show him leaning further into the provocateur role rather than backing away from it.
