Trump, 80, Cornered on Relationship With Blonde Aide, 35
Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Donald Trump has been confronted over his relationship with White House aide Natalie Harp as innuendo swirls about the 80-year-old president and his ever-present young staffer.
Trump was forced to address the issue on Monday after Democratic rising star Jon Ossoff publicly questioned the president’s closeness with his 35-year-old executive assistant, declaring at a rally that Trump would much rather “travel with Natalie” and build the White House ballroom than do his job as president.
Asked in the Oval office about Ossoff’s comments, Trump hit back at the Georgia Senate candidate before immediately reverting to a lengthy rant about his pet vanity project.
“You mean Pee-wee Herman? (He’s a) Pee-wee Herman look-alike,” the president said, referencing the nickname he has given to Ossoff.
“No, I would much rather do other things.
We’re building a great facility here.
We’re fixing the White House that hasn’t been taken care of.…The exteriors were falling apart.
The columns were falling apart.
The whole place was a mess.” The comments are the first time Trump has been asked publicly about Harp, who has become an ever-present figure in his orbit.
In recent weeks, she has been photographed alongside him at Camp David, spotted next to him at his Bedminister Golf Club and has been seen watching on adoringly as Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office requiring childhood vaccine shots to be spaced out.
She was also one of the few selected aides who was with Trump in Turkey when he escaped in a catering truck to a safer plane during an Iranian plot to target Air Force One with a missile.
The former television host joined Trump’s staff in 2022 and became known in Trumpworld as the “human printer” for carrying a portable printer to print articles and social media posts for the president in real time.
But her obsession with the president has come under the spotlight recently with the publication of Regime Change : Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump , the new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
The book claims that Harp would leave gushing letters for Trump in his “personal spaces” before joining the White House staff.
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