This story has the potential to turn into a raunchy scandal in the White House
Donald Trump is known for having a lot of loyalists in his cabinet and inner circle.
However, there is one very close to him who has never gotten much publicity.
That was before a sitting Senator brought attention to the very peculiar relationship between the president and a young female aide.
Ossoff fires at Trump’s close personal assistant
Jon Ossoff, the Senator from Georgia who is up for re-election in the swing state, delivered a campaign speech on Sunday.
Here, he threw some heavy criticism Donald Trump’s way. And then he brought up his close executive assistant and their alleged relationship.
“The president sleeps through his meetings, he golfs, and trades stocks,” Ossoff said at the rally. “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.”
Who is Natalie?
Ossoff is referring to the many scandals that plague Trump at the moment. But then he brought up the subject of Natalie Harp, Trump’s assistant with whom he apparently has a very interesting relationship.
Natalie Harp is a 35-year-old former far-right news anchor turned White House aide who has been a very close confidant and assistant to Trump since 2025.
Journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have described her as a “human printer” for Donald Trump because one of her literal job descriptions is to print out things for Trump to review and make decisions on. She also transcribes his Truth Social posts.
An unusual relationship
The journalists from The New York Times have described this as more than just a standard relationship between a president and an aide.
According to their new book, Regime Change, Harp had a habit of leaving Trump private notes where only he could find them. Some of these notes read, “You are all that matters to me” and “I want to bring you joy.”
Harp also reportedly spent a whole summer living out of a women’s locker room at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, so she could be near the president at all times.
Ossoff’s insult hits close to home
Jon Ossoff’s insult has created quite the media storm and it triggered a coordinated social media attack on Ossoff to defend both Trump and Harp.
White House communications director Steven Cheung was quick to fire back at the Senator. “Instead of denigrating hard-working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he’s a miserable person who hates this country,” Cheung wrote in a social media post.
Trump was unusually quiet about this when asked about his response to Ossoff’s dig. He tried to insult him by calling him a name, but quickly moved away from the topic, looking visibly uncomfortable.
The White House does not want to give this story any legs
While this seems like a salacious scandal on the surface, there is something more serious underneath it all.
The role of Natalie Harp being a “human printer” is far more damaging if it turns out that she ultimately controls what Trump sees and hears.
The other part is that their evidently close relationship not only opens up a discussion about appropriateness, but also the scope of a US president’s reliance on an assistant. As Haberman and Swan describe Trump’s feelings towards Natalie Harp:
“Natalie (or ‘Nathalie,’ as he would call her, using a French pronunciation) was the only one who loved him as much as his wife and kids. ‘All of you will go off and make money,’ he would say. ‘She’ll never leave me.’”
