Former President Donald Trump offered a vivid and intimate description of the FBI's 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate during a campaign rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Friday, comparing the operation to a literal panty raid.
From Policy to Personal Drawers
The unusual anecdote emerged as Trump digressed from discussing his proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." He claimed he hadn't pursued the name change earlier because he was preoccupied with "bigger problems to deal with."
"I had these animals trying to attack me at Mar-a-Lago," Trump stated, an apparent reference to the federal agents who executed a search warrant at his Florida resort-home in August 2022. The raid was part of an investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents after he left the White House.
A Cheeky Pun on 'Drawers'
Trump then focused on a specific part of the search, alleging that agents entered his wife's closet. "They went into my wife's closet," he told the crowd. "And I'll say this: Number one, it's very bad, but it sounds a little strange."
He proceeded to play on the double meaning of the word "drawers," pantomiming the action for emphasis. "They looked at her drawers. You have drawer and then you have drawer," Trump said, indicating both furniture and undergarments. "They looked at both. And she's a very meticulous person."
Disorder in the First Lady's Undergarments
Trump spent several minutes detailing the precision of his wife's organization, contrasting it with the disorder he claims the FBI left behind.
"Everything is perfect," he continued. "Her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties, are folded, perfect. Wrapped. They're like, so perfect. I say, 'That's beautiful.'... I think that she steams them."
He condemned the FBI for the alleged aftermath. "She opened the drawers and it was not that way," Trump asserted. "They were a mess. It was all over the place. And she said, 'Oh, what happened? That's so terrible.'"
The detailed account served as Trump's latest sharp criticism of the federal investigation into his possession of sensitive government records, framing the legally authorized search as a deeply personal violation.
