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The Democratic senator Jon Ossoff is inflicting a dustup within the Trump administration after calling out the president’s relationship to Natalie Harp, the previous One America Information anchor who’s turn out to be one in all his most allegiant aides. At a rally in Atlanta on Sunday, Ossoff took a jab at President Donald Trump for being derelict in his responsibility.
“Whereas the sailors on the Lincoln struggle his struggle, whereas he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps via his conferences, he golfs, and trades shares,” Ossoff instructed the gang. “He doesn’t wish to do the job. He needs to construct his ballroom and journey with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.”
Ossoff says that Trump doesn’t wish to do his job however needs to “journey with Natalie” pic.twitter.com/aDLMKFeMmR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 16, 2026
Harp has been by Trump’s aspect for years now. In 2023, sources instructed the Washington Publish that Harp was “practically at all times” by the president’s aspect. In 2024, the New York Instances reported that she had been nicknamed the “human printer” as a result of one in all her essential duties was following the then-president-elect round with a conveyable printer and handing him bodily copies of flattering tales.
Final 12 months, the journalist Michael Wolff wrote in his guide All or Nothing that when some staffers had been attempting to push Harp out of Trump’s orbit on the 2024 marketing campaign path, she doubled down. In response to Wolff, she spent the summer season primarily based out of the ladies’s locker room at Trump’s New Jersey golf membership in an effort to keep as near him as potential always. In July, Harp was reportedly one of many few Trump aides to fly with Trump on his decoy aircraft out of Turkey whereas a number of Cupboard members remained on Air Power One, which was dealing with a reputable risk.
Clearly, Trump and Harp stay shut. And it appears as if the White Home shouldn’t be taking too kindly to Ossoff citing simply how shut they’re.
“Jon Jackoff must be the largest cuck loser in politics,” White Home communications director Steven Cheung wrote on X. “As a substitute of denigrating hard-working individuals serving their nation, Jon ought to look deep into his soul and ask himself why he’s a depressing one who hates this nation. It’s as a result of he’s a radical, extremist Dumocrat.”
“Jon Ossoff is a cringeworthy, female theatre child cosplaying as Barack Obama,” White Home spokesman Davis R. Ingle wrote on X. “No one offers a shit what this light-weight loser says.”
The president himself weighed in on Monday, form of. When requested about Ossoff’s feedback within the Oval Workplace, Trump replied, “You imply Pee-wee Herman? Pee-wee Herman lookalike.” (Not his finest work.) He rapidly pivoted to speaking in regards to the “nice facility” they’re constructing on the White Home, calling his East Wing renovation “far more than a ballroom.”
On Monday, political analyst and former White Home press secretary Jen Psaki requested Ossoff on MS Now why he selected to invoke Harp. Ossoff mentioned that the president has “mired us on this geopolitical catastrophe” and is tired of truly main. “He retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who’re his safety blanket to make him be ok with himself, to reassure him that he’s doing an amazing job, to assist him whereas he designs his new ballroom,” Ossoff mentioned. “And he adorns the Oval Workplace in gold and picks the inside decorations on this new luxurious flying palace he obtained from a international prince.”
Ossoff’s smack discuss would possibly sound like somebody who’s gearing up for a 2028 presidential run, however apparently that’s not the senator’s angle. He instructed Psaki that he has “zero curiosity in working for president in 2028.” Ossoff is as an alternative centered on attempting to “restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterm elections.” I believe it’s secure to imagine that Harp shouldn’t be printing out any of the tales about Ossoff for her boss.
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