MAGA can be very loud about anyone daring to question Trump's improper on-going relationship with a staffer, but not a peep about the critical issues of the day.

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I’ve spent my career watching officials maneuver and scheme, often in absurd ways, to get closer to presidents. But I’d never seen anything like the photo of Natalie Harp dashing after President Trump’s golf cart in Scotland three years ago. I’d also never heard of a staffer jumping into the trunk of an S.U.V., as Harp did, when she was denied a seat in the motorcade.

The hit horror movie “Obsession,” about a man who wishes for more adoration from a young woman, who falls under his spell and maniacally provides it, is playing out on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Like others, I winced when I first heard Senator Jon Ossoff, the Georgia Democrat, refer to how Trump liked to “travel with Natalie.” Was he gratuitously turning a salacious spotlight onto a White House aide?

But as it turns out, with three little words, Ossoff pulled a string and unraveled something really dark and deranged at the innermost circle of Trump’s White House.

The president’s proclivity for surrounding himself with sycophants — and attractive young blondes — is well known.

But this relationship is pathological, and a source of great irritation among other courtiers. It is Trump distilled to his essence: cult leader and his most rabid follower, narcissist and his most flattering mirror.

The daughter of a devoutly Christian real estate broker who died by suicide during the pandemic, Harp idolizes Trump with a rare fervor.

Harp is nicknamed — and refers to herself as — “the human printer” because she follows Trump around with a portable printer to provide him with paper copies of any positive stories or tweets.

The Harp saga reflects a truly weird fact about Trump. The 80-year-old president got elected, governs, provokes and seeks revenge using social media, and he was surrounded by bootlicking tech titans at his inaugural. But he still needs someone young and online to sit beside him and type his posts. Their online symbiosis raises the question of whether all those strange capitalizations are his or hers.

But it was the MAGA megaphone that did in Natalie. The White House was clearly rattled by the allusion to the close relationship between Trump and his 35-year-old, $150,000-a-year social media helper. Melania even made a rare appearance to show the conjugal flag.

Harp made headlines earlier when the president chose her and a few other close aides to accompany him when he sneaked into a catering truck and switched planes to fly back from Turkey to the District, after a threat of an Iranian assassination attack. Shockingly, Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent and the media were left on the other plane as decoys.


After Kristen Holmes, the CNN White House correspondent, asked Trump about Ossoff’s critique, the White House tweeted a creepy warning: “Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive. It’s quite troubling.”

But the troubling thing was the tone of Harp’s adoring letters to the man she addresses as “Mr. President,” released by The Daily Beast, in which she talks about her fragile emotional state — forgetting to eat or sleep and getting hurt by others’ critical remarks.

“I want things to always be right between us,” she writes, adding, “I’m sorry I lost my focus. You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

She frets in another that she works so hard for him that she looks like “a hunchback who didn’t have time to freshen up.” She pleads, “We shouldn’t have to talk about work all the time!!” and pines to “hear every conversation” he has.

Harp quotes a line from “Pride and Prejudice” to say that it would have been hard to lose her father if she had not had someone so “worthy” to turn to in Trump. “And, I will add,” she signs off, “it is I who is unworthy.”

It’s a perfect (taxpayer-funded) relationship. She thinks he’s amazing. And he agrees.


Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/natalie-harp-jon-ossoff-trump.html

too. Particularly his attack on Massie is unacceptable to me.

Disclosures: I’m just commenting on your words. I didn’t read your embedded stuff.

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