Trump talks about neuroses, selecting chairs and his wife's underwear drawer in latest affordability speech
Source: CNN Politics
PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2025, 12:21 AM ET
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.
Trump did periodically discuss the economy in his 90-minute speech, which he called a “quick little stop” in Rocky Mount on the way to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays. He trumpeted a report this week that showed inflation unexpectedly cooling. He recounted an announcement he made earlier in the day on lowering some drug prices. He framed an uptick in the unemployment rate as a success since he’d fired so many government workers.
Supporters behind him held signs reading “Lower Prices” and “Bigger Paychecks.” But even the visual cues couldn’t keep the president from veering well off-piste — often to the delight of his crowd.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/trump-speech-north-carolina
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I have to go offline to seriously immerse myself in work.
See you in a year DU (or whenever I finish a paper ..if you never again hear from me, I died toiling on it to the end of my days)..don’t have too much fun following awesome stories like these ;-/.
This somehow seems like an appropriately absurdist snapshot of the era to log off to 
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I definitely will after my work on this paper has gotten good enough to feel it’s a breeze ahead.
Trump has been kinda hard to ignore ..yeah it’s been quite a year hasn’t it . I am determined to not let him suck away all of 2026 as well. I pay less attention to him directly than factors around him that could make such a moronic tabloid figure suddenly so important.
Either way, I’ll be back . Look fwd to seeing yoh all then..I like this uncommodified (as much as the web can be..I am cynical about the web overall, but I buy DU) goofy, but definitely politically polarised part of the web.
DU’s mission statement has always jived with my view of pragmatism..go as left as you want to without forgetting that unfortunately the US is a one party country..has been as long as I can remember.. shrug..
Rock On!!
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Dying seems like just a smidge excessive dedication to your job, so... don't do that.
I promise to be back plus paper.
I have been trying to sound more like a member of the community, but I have a strong suspicion that instead of sounding wise or charming like many others, I legit sound like a serial killer looking for their next victim or best case one looking for character witnesses or alibis.;-/.
I am blaming it on being Gen X. But this is a good community, so I will be back.
Hope to see you around then Chellee
I was also attempting to sound like a community member, but as a fellow Gen Xer, it doesn't always come out quite right either. If it helps, I did not get serial killer vibes.
See you on the other side.
See you later electric blue…
and good luck! 
