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Trump talks about neuroses, selecting chairs and his wife's underwear drawer in latest affordability speech
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/trump-speech-north-carolinaTrump talks about neuroses, selecting chairs and his wife’s underwear drawer in latest affordability speech
By Kevin Liptak
President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy.
He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her lingerie drawer.
“I think she steams them,” he offered at one point, hoping to underscore the violation Melania Trump felt when, in his telling, FBI agents rummaged through the pristine undergarments — “sometimes referred to as panties” — during their 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago.
In the realm of Trump tangents, it wasn’t the wildest, or angriest, or most bizarre.
Yet as the president hopes to refocus the nation’s attention on his economic record ahead of next year’s critical midterm elections, it was another reminder that his own focus often remains somewhat adrift.
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