The Wrath of MAGA
M AGA world is angry.
Again.
The target this time is Jon Ossoff, the Democratic senator from Georgia.
At a reelection rally in Atlanta on August 16, Ossoff was attacking President Trump over the Iran war when he pivoted to a more personal attack on the commander in chief.
“The president sleeps through his meetings,” Ossoff said.
“He golfs and trades stocks.
See, he doesn’t want to do the job.
He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.” Those three words— travel with Natalie —sent MAGA world into paroxysms of rage that have yet to subside.
Natalie is a reference to Natalie Harp, the president’s 35-year-old special assistant, who is known as “the human printer” because she accompanies the president carrying a portable printer and battery pack.
She uses it to print out hard copies of positive news articles, flattering social-media posts, and polling data to hand-deliver to him on the go.
What Trump’s defenders heard in Ossoff’s line was innuendo.
The White House tore into Ossoff.
The White House aide Stephen Miller said the senator’s comments are “among the most vile things I’ve seen in American politics.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said Ossoff is “ a miserable person who hates this country .” He also referred to Ossoff as “Jon Jerkoff” and as “the biggest cuck loser in politics.” The White House spokesperson Davis Ingle referred to him as a “cringeworthy feminine theater kid” and a “lightweight loser.” When the CNN reporter Kristen Holmes asked about Ossoff’s comments, the White House Official Rapid Response X account responded by saying , “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.” The president, for his part, referred to Ossoff as a “ Pee-wee Herman look-alike .” The MAGA ecosystem—podcast hosts, radio-talk-show hosts, political commentators, and others—followed suit.
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