Banana smearing of Mar-a-Lago cars leads to arrest
A C l e a r wa t e r wo ma n wa s arrested on a trespassing charge after Palm Beach police said she sneaked onto President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club three times, smeared bananas on cars and left an explicit message on a computer hours before the inauguration Friday.
Kelly Ann Weidman, 48, told officers she “wanted to make a statement regarding her being cyberattacked,” when she repeatedly trespassed onto club property early Friday, according to a police report.
Officer Lori Minot wrote in her report that Weidman admitted to smearing bananas on vehicles in the parking lot, moving balloons from the grand ballroom to outside bushes and typing the explicit message on the computer.
Weidman first tried to drive her Kia onto the property, 1100 S. Ocean Blvd., at 1 a.m. but was told to leave, the report stated. At 6:30 a.m., a security officer saw her enter the property through the bushes that line the north side of the club’s border with Woodbridge Road. Guards told her to leave and she exited through the front gate, the report said.
A guard again told Weidman to leave when he saw her in the property’s “jungle area” 30 minutes later, but she refused, according to the report. A security supervisor was alerted at 7:29 a.m. and found a message typed on a bar computer that read “(expletive) UTrumpB.”
Police were summoned at 7:45 a.m.
Less than 12 hours later, about 450 people gathered to celebrate Trump’s inauguration held earlier in the day.
According to the report, Weidman did not explain her motives other than to say she wanted to “make a statement” about a cyberattack against her.
“Weidman stated no one would listen to her and she wanted to be arrested,” the report said.
Weidman was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on one count of misdemeanor trespassing. She was released on her own recognizance a few hours later, according to jail records.