On Sunday, Jon Ossoff went after Trump’s handling of the Iran war. He’d been golfing and trading stocks, he observed, while men toiled aboard the USS Lincoln.
But the senator also landed on a line that lit up the internet: “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.”
The White House responded through communications director Steven Cheung. “Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics,” he tweeted. Ossoff, he added, should “look deep into his soul and ask himself why he’s a miserable person who hates this country.”
If you read that closely, you’ll notice that response — inflammatory as it is — doesn’t contain a denial of a single damn thing.
So who is Natalie?
Well, her last name is Harp, and she’s 35. She first publicly appeared in Trump’s orbit in 2019. She’d survived cancer, and she credited Trump’s Right to Try law with saving her life. Then she became an anchor at One America News, where she promoted the Big Lie.
In March 2022, she left the network to work for Trump directly. She had no formal title but, but she’d earned a nickname: the “human printer.” She followed Trump everywhere with a portable printer and a battery pack, handing him hard copies of articles. Much of it, per the New York Times, came from far-right outlets like Gateway Pundit.
In January 2025, Trump finally gave her an official job title. She’d executive assistant to the president, Oval Office Operations.
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Now, she sits in on Oval Office meetings, positioned against the wall. She still prints the president’s readings. She also travels with him constantly, reportedly among the handful of aides on last month’s unannounced plane transfer out of Turkey.
And Natalie posts to his Truth Social account: she takes dictation from the president, tapping out his controversial posts. Sometimes she operates it on her own.
Much of what’s newly public about Natalie comes from “Regime Change,” the tell-all book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. I wrote about that book when it came out.
It’s pretty shocking stuff. She apparently leaves private notes for Trump to find, one of which read “You are all that matters to me.”
White House staff have reportedly attempted to put distance between her and the president, and they’ve failed. One aide described the dynamic as “a Christian devotional relationship.” Chief of staff Susie Wiles, for her part, was reportedly shocked at the scope of Harp’s access. “Where am I?” she asked.
Then there’s Michael Wolff’s material.
In his newsletter, Wolff reports that, in 2023, when Trump’s operation moved to Bedminster, Harp wasn’t assigned a room. So she slept in the maids’ quarters and a women’s locker room to stay near him. Wolff calls the notes she writes Trump “love letters.”
Harp’s own brother told the Times her relationship to Trump is “very unhealthy.” She’s “just like his fan club,” he says.
Meanwhile, Melania has not moved into the White House. I spent 20 years of my life investigating cases, and this one’s pretty fuckin’ suspicious.
Now, two things can be true about the Ossoff line, and I think both are.
Nobody has said, on or off the record, that there’s a sexual relationship going on here. It’s stranger and sadder than that, a woman who by every account has organized her existence around being near this man.
Newsweek ran a piece arguing the “cheap innuendo” is a loser for Democrats, and the right called the remark sexist. They’re not exactly wrong: we don’t know if Harp has done anything but serve the man with total devotion.
But who gives a shit? Trump and his movement have spent the last decade lobbing vile innuendo at anyone who opposes them. Their enemies, they say, are pedophiles. They’re crooked and belong in prison. Hillary Clinton is eating adrenochrome from babies, harvested in the basement of a pizza shop.
So now the right thinks we should take the high road? Now they think these sorts of insinuations are toxic? Yeah, fuck off.
This stuff is scandalous, yeah, but it’s also deadly serious. The President of the United States is 80 years old, and his energy seems to be fading fast. His public statements to Truth Social move markets and shape foreign affairs, and they’re all mediated through an executive assistant, at all hours, occasionally to the administration’s own surprise. Trump’s daily readings are curated by the same aide, drawn substantially from far-right, conspiratorial media.
Harp’s chief of staff cannot control her access, and she’s said so. And that aide in question holds a job that required no confirmation, answering to exactly one person, whom she serves with slavish loyalty. Does anyone think this woman would stand up to Trump if she believed he was making a mistake?
Again, salacious stuff, but these are ultimately borin and procedural questions. Who has the authority to post on the account the President uses for official statements, and is there any sort of review process? The administration has never answered that.
“Where am I?” Susie Wiles asked.
As Natalie’s power grows, the country might want to ask the same thing.
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