For a brief window this past week, anyone who typed JeffreyEpstein.com into their browser found themselves staring at the official website of the White House. The redirect, engineered by satirist and political domain collector Toby Morton, lasted only long enough for thousands of visitors to notice before someone on the government end pulled the plug.
Morton is no stranger to this kind of digital provocation. The comedy writer, who has contributed scripts to “South Park” and “Mad TV,” has spent years purchasing politically charged web domains and transforming them into satirical platforms that walk a careful line between parody and public record. He currently operates around 50 such sites, none of which he has any interest in selling.
In an open letter addressed directly to White House staff, Morton made his motivations clear and his tone unmistakable. “I realize you’re quite busy at the moment, starting wars, managing distractions, and generally doing whatever it takes to pull attention away from inconvenient Epstein-related questions, so I’ll keep this brief,” he wrote.
He then identified himself as the person behind TrumpKennedyCenter.org and similar projects, describing his work as “dedicated to preserving inconvenient public records in one place.”
When the White House cut the redirect, Morton acknowledged the move. “If thousands of people suddenly arrived at my official government website via a domain associated with one of the most infamous s*x traffickers in modern history, while Donald Trump’s documented connections remained publicly searchable, I’d probably act fast too,” he wrote. “No worries!”
Rather than letting the domain sit idle while his team builds out its permanent destination, Morton has since pointed JeffreyEpstein.com toward TrumpKennedyCenter.org as a temporary measure.
That site came about through a similar process. When Trump began restructuring the Kennedy Center’s leadership and eventually had the institution renamed “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” Morton had already anticipated the move.
“As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,'” he explained in a previous interview with The Washington Post. He secured both TrumpKennedyCenter.org and TrumpKennedyCenter.com in August, months before the formal renaming.
The JeffreyEpstein.com project, he says, is more involved. Morton’s team has been compiling screenshots, emails, quotes, photographs, and public records documenting connections between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
“This takes time if it’s going to be clean, accurate, and impossible to ignore,” he wrote in a social media update. Once the material is ready, Morton says the next phase will involve billboards and paid advertising, a tactic he has deployed before. A billboard he placed in Oklahoma, styled to resemble a text message from God, called on the then-state schools superintendent to resign. He later did.
Morton’s broader body of work includes NancyMace26.com, which presents itself as a credible campaign site before giving way to biting satire, and MTG2026.org, where he characterizes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as “Building a Whiter Tomorrow.”
He also owns a fake MAGA dating site and ResignChuck.com, a parody of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that mocks what Morton portrays as political spinelessness.
His process is straightforward by his own account. When a person or issue gains momentum in the news cycle, he moves quickly to register the relevant domain and begins developing a concept. Speed matters.
“Once something is obvious to everyone, it’s usually gone,” he has said, adding that he will “forever regret” not securing a domain tied to Jake Tapper before the release of “Original Sin,” the book Tapper co-wrote that drew widespread attention for its account of how aides to former President Joe Biden handled concerns about his decline.
Donations to support Morton’s current work are live at JeffreyEpstein.com, and he has credited a collaborator, Christina Dior, for helping coordinate upcoming advertising efforts.
As for the White House’s swift response to the redirect, Morton seemed almost grateful for the confirmation it provided. “Before it was disconnected, it did rack up thousands of views,” he noted, “which tells me interest remains high, and redirects are not the issue, information is.”
He closed his open letter to the administration with a farewell that required no elaboration: “Dog Bless and Go F*ck Yourselves, Tobes.”
