“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” Trump said in an interview Tuesday with the Wall Street Journal about the sketch, the newspaper reported. Trump, however, has made multiple drawings over the years; at least four were publicly auctioned off during his first term as president.

Trump, amid growing backlash from some in his MAGA base over his administration’s stonewalling of the release of the Epstein files, has vowed to sue the Journal over the story.

The president denied a Wall Street Journal report alleging he had sent a salacious birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein