FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ A banana-wielding, trespassing, U.S. postal worker marred Inauguration Day at President Donald Trump's newly dubbed winter White House in Palm Beach, according to police.
A few hours before Trump on Friday took the oath of office in Washington, D.C., a woman smeared bananas on cars parked at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, police said.
The intruder also took balloons from inside Trump's historic estate and left them in the bushes, according to police.
She typed a profanity about Trump on a Mar-a-Lago computer screen, according to the arrest report.
Kelly Weidman, 48, of Clearwater, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of trespassing. She works as a postal clerk in Clearwater, according to the U.S. Postal Service.
Weidman told police she wanted to get arrested to draw attention to "her being cyberattacked," according to the arrest report. She told police that no one would listen to her cyberattack concerns.
About 1 a.m. Friday, Weidman tried to drive her gray sedan onto the Mar-a-Lago estate, but was turned away by security, police said.
Then starting at 6:30 a.m., security guards say they spotted Weidman walking on the Mar-a-Lago grounds and again told her to leave.
Police responded about 7:45 a.m. and arrested Weidman after she refused to leave the property, according to the arrest report.
Weidman had at times showed up in a bar, a ballroom and the beach club at the estate, according to the arrest report.
Weidman, who has worked for the U.S. Postal Service since 1999, was released from custody just after 5:30 p.m. Friday. She has a court appearance scheduled for Feb. 14. Weidman couldn't be reached for comment, despite an attempt by phone.
Trump in 1985 bought the 18-acre, oceanfront Mar-a-Lago estate, which includes a Mediterranean-style, crescent-shaped building with a 75-foot-tall tower.
The new president plans to keep using the island estate for White House getaways.
