Trump breaks silence on FBI’s bombshell raid of John Bolton’s home

President Donald Trump responded to the raid of his former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Friday by calling him a ‘lowlife’ and ‘not a smart guy.’

During a visit to the White House Historical Association Museum on Friday, the president told press that he will be briefed on the FBI raid later in the day, but admitted he didn’t know it was happening until it was in the news.

‘He’s very bad at what he does,’ Trump claimed.

‘He doesn’t talk, he’s like a very quiet person except on television and then he can say something bad about Trump. He’ll always do that. But he doesn’t talk, he’s very quiet,’ Trump told reporters.

Donald Trump will announce that the 2026 World Cup draw will be moved from Las Vegas, Nevada to Washington, D.C., White House officials confirmed.

The president wants the draw to happen at the Kennedy Center now that he chairs the board of the performing arts venue.

Earlier the White House teased that Trump would make a secretive announcement from the Oval Office on Friday.

After visiting the White House Historical Association Museum on Friday morning, Trump went across town to the Kennedy Center for business that was closed to the press.

A woman carrying a ‘No Kings’ poster demonstrating outside of John Bolton’s home was heckled by a passing car.

‘Trump uses FBI for vengence. #NoKings,’ her poster said.

A man driving by told the woman the economy is flourishing and claimed we are safer than we’ve ever been.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino called out ‘public corruption’ amid raid on John Bolton.

‘Public corruption will not be tolerated,’ he said on X.

Donald Trump was photographed with a large patch of foundation covering his hand on Friday.

In July, the White House revealed the president had been diagnosed with a vein condition after growing concern over the bruising and makeup that appeared on his hand at several events.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president was checked out by his doctor after noticeable ‘swelling’ and revealed that Trump has been diagnosed with ‘chronic venous insufficiency.’

She said it’s a ‘common condition’ in individuals over the age of 70 and there was ‘no evidence’ of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease.

Donald Trump wore a hat that says he ‘was right about everything’ as he made a few surprise visits around Washington, DC on Friday.

The signature MAGA red hat is embroidered with white lettering that says, ‘Trump was right about everything.’

Resuraced video showed John Bolton told MSNBC that Donald Trump did not care about the classification process during the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.

The FBI appeared to be moving cars in John Bolton’s driveway as they continue their raid of his home.

During an interview on ABC’s ‘This Week’ on August 10, John Bolton was asked by Jonathan Karl about his concerns over being targeted by the Trump administration.

‘Well, I think he’s already come after me and several others in withdrawing the protection that we had,’ Bolton said.

‘So I think, and I said in the new foreword to the paperback edition of my book, I think it is a retribution presidency.’

Roger Stone asked John Bolton ‘How does it feel’ to have your home raided bright and early in the morning shortly after the news broke of an FBI raid at the property of Trump’s former national security advisor.

‘Good morning. John Bolton. How does it feel to have your home raided at 6 o’clock in the morning?’ Stone said on X.

Notably, the raid on Bolton’s home started around 7am.

In 2019, Stone was arrested after an early morning raid on his Florida home in connection with Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential election.

Stone was convicted of those charges, but had his sentence commuted by Trump and was later pardoned.

John Bolton served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser from April 2018 to September 2019.

Before joining the Trump administration, he served as the US ambassador to the UN from 2005 to 2006 during the George W Bush administration.

In the 1980s, Bolton served as an assistant attorney general during the Ronald Reagan administration.

Bolton was the third person to take on the role in Trump’s first administration and clashed with the president over Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea.

After parting with the administration, Bolton, a Republican, became a vocal critic of Trump.

In June 2020, Bolton published a memoir about his time working for Trump called The Room Where it Happened.

The first Trump administration had unsuccessfully sought to block the publication of a Bolton book that it said contained classified information.

In September 2020, Trump’s first-term Justice Department opened a probe into the book. However, during the Biden years, his DOJ did not pursue the investigation further.

Once back in office, Bolton was stripped of his security clearances and Secret Service protection.

Trump’s Executive Order specifically cited Bolton’s memoir as part of stripping the security clearances of former intelligence officials.

He said Bolton’s ‘reckless treatment of sensitive information’ undermined national security because it risked exposing classified material.

The investigation into Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is over whether he illegally shared or possessed classified information, two sources told the New York Times.

FBI agents raid Bolton’s Maryland home at 7am on Friday. Several agents were seen carrying boxes in and out of his house.

Other agents were spotted entering Bolton’s Washington, DC office.

One of John Bolton’s neighbors told the Daily Mail that the FBI’s raid on his Maryland home is ‘karma’ for not testifying during Trump’s impeachment.

‘It’s disruptive, it’s ridiculous, obviously it is to persecute an enemy,’ the neighbor named Holly said.

‘However, I will say, if he would have testified in the first impeachment hearing, maybe we wouldn’t be here, so there is a little bit of karma.’

Donald Trump visited The People’s House, an immersive White House experience by the White House Historical Association, on Friday.

The attraction is less than a block away from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue.

It wasn’t clear what he was doing there and the visit wasn’t on his official schedule.

Trump was spotted on video posted on social media walking into the building with his chief of staff Susie Wiles.

The association has a gift shop and a replica of the Oval Office as part of its educational center about the White House.

Attorney General Pam Bondi added on to a message from FBI Director Kash Patel shortly after FBI agents launched a raid on the home of Trump’s Former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

‘America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always,’ Bondi said while reporting Patel’s message.

The FBI Director said, ‘NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission.’

FBI agents were pictured walking inside the back entrance of John Bolton’s Washington, DC office while others searched his home.

Three FBI agents were spotted carrying boxes into John Bolton’s house, then leaving a few minutes later.

Former NSA John Bolton’s wife, Gretchen Smith Bolton, appeared to be given a rude awakening on Friday morning when the FBI rolled up to raid their home in Bethesda, Maryland.

Gretchen was spotted at the front door interacting with the federal agents, then walking away as they entered the home.

George Conway, estranged husband of Trump ally Kellyanne Conway, spoke with the Daily Mail outside John Bolton’s in the middle of the FBI raid.

He said Bolton should be held accountable if he is illegally storing classified documents ‘the way Trump should have’ during his Florida case.

‘If he’s got classified documents, my view is well, he has to answer for that if he’s got them, the way Trump should have,’ Conway said.

‘On the other hand, if it’s just about harassing him because he said uncomplimentary things about Trump… that’s not legit.

Donald Trump made a cryptic Truth Social post just hours after the FBI raided the home of his former national security advisor.

‘The United States is the “Hottest” Country anywhere in the World. There is no other Country that is even close…And just think, one year ago, we were a “DEAD” Country, with no hope of ever seeing GREATNESS AGAIN! But that all changed on Election Day, November 5th, 2024. LANDSLIDE!!!’ the president said.

The director of the Office of Personnel Management, Scott Kupor, said that 300,000 federal jobs will be cut by the end of the year.

‘That’s roughly like 2.4 million to start and ending roughly about 2.1 million,’ he told the New York Times on Thursday.

He said a bulk of the resignations came from the incentives first introduced by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and most would be officially separated by the end of September, and others by the end of the year.

The Trump administration started sending emails to thousands of federal workers in January, offering them a chance to voluntarily vacate their government posts while remaining on the payroll for months.

John Bolton served as Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor from April 2018 until September 2019.

In response, Bolton has become one of the former officials that Trump has taken aim at since getting back into office this year.

Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stripped Bolton of his security clearance.

On his first day back in office on January 20, 2025, Trump ordered the clearances be revoked of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter suggesting the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.

In June 2020, Bolton published a memoir about his time working for Trump called The Room Where it Happened.

The president tried to block its publication, claiming Bolton breached a nondisclosure agreement he signed as a condition of his employment. He also argued that the memoir endangered U.S. national security.

In September 2020, Trump’s first-term Justice Department opened a probe into the book. But during the Biden years, his DOJ did not pursue the investigation further.

Trump’s Executive Order once back in office specifically cited Bolton’s memoir as part of stripping the security clearances of former intelligence officials.

He said Bolton’s ‘reckless treatment of sensitive information’ undermined national security because it risked exposing classified material.

Amid the feud with his former top national security aide, Trump also revoked his Secret Service protection, saying at the time: ‘We’re not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives. Why should we?’

He called Bolton a ‘very dumb person’ and a ‘warmonger.’

Shortly after FBI agents launched a raid on the home of Trump’s Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X.

‘NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,’ he said.

Although it is unclear if he was referring to the search on Bolton’s home, Patel wrote a 2023 book that included Bolton in a list of ‘members of the Executive Branch Deep State.’

The president is scheduled to make an unknown announcement at 12pm ET in the Oval Office on Friday.

It is the only event listed on Trump’s public schedule and it is unclear what the announcement will be about.

The announcment comes just hours after the FBI launched a raid on the home of Trump’s Former National Security Advisor, John Bolton.

The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s home on Friday morning.

Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump’s NSA from April 2018 until September 2019, has been at odds with Trump ever since parting with the first administration.

The raid is part of the FBI’s investigation into the former Trump official involving classified documents.

‘NO ONE is above the law… FBI agents on mission,’ FBI Director Kash Patel wrote in a post to X.

Bolton was home at the time of the 7.00 am raid on his DC-area house, a source familiar with the matter told the Daily Mail.