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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAide Natalie Harp in "unhealthy relationship" with Trump:
White House aide Natalie Harps obsession with Donald Trump has become so severe that her own brother has spoken out.Preston Harp, 38, the estranged brother of Trumps favorite personal assistant, blasted the 80-year-old president and his too-close-for-comfort bond with Prestons 34-year-old sister.
In an interview with The Daily Mail, Preston called Trump a national embarrassment and said his sisters relationship with him is very unhealthy.
Harp has since risen through the ranks to become Trumps favorite personal assistant, her devotion to the president becoming so intense that it caused concern within the Secret Service. According to Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Harp would leave gushing letters for Trump in his personal spaces before joining the White House staff. One reportedly read, You are all that matters to me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-aide-natalie-harp-s-brother-calls-her-relationship-with-president-unhealthy/ar-AA26AFYV
sop
(20,059 posts)leave me.
I don't think Melania loves you all that much, Donnie. And the jury's still out on your kids.
Pototan
(3,258 posts)has all the ingredients to become a blockbuster.
GoCubsGo
(35,103 posts)More likely, she loves the access. I wouldn't be surprised if she's really another Russian honey pot.
no_hypocrisy
(55,867 posts)Hicks parents tried intervention to get her away from Trump.
tanyev
(50,010 posts)would inspire such slavish devotion from much younger, very attractive women.
CanonRay
(16,330 posts)Who by all accounts was filthy.
infullview
(1,168 posts)Im sure his reeking stench makes him so attractive .
a kennedy
(36,904 posts)Maru Kitteh
(32,153 posts)See Megyn Kelly, et al.
mucholderthandirt
(1,816 posts)Nothing else explains the continued adoration of horrible people, letting them be leaders in any way, like Musk, or electing them over and over to political office, or putting up with their bullshit when they have power over a company, a church or any other kind of group.
The main focus for science shouldn't be how to make sure you don't wrinkle as you get old, but to find ways to genetically fix humanity. Illnesses like diabetes, arthritis, and others, but especially mental illness. The rate for sociopathy is astounding, for example. At any given time there are at least 50 active serial killers in America alone, and almost all are white men. Why is that? Can it be fixed?
orangecrush
(32,038 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(3,745 posts)3_Limes
(652 posts)Seems unlilely.
GPV
(73,482 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(33,746 posts)
sop
(20,059 posts)Jedi Guy
(3,534 posts)That was the first thought that went through my head when I saw the images of her in the article.
She's not drop dead gorgeous but she's quite pretty. She'd have no trouble finding a guy her own age and yet she's obsessed with an ambulatory glob of Cheeto dust and cheap tanning oil.
Humans really are strange creatures.
Wiz Imp
(11,017 posts)From Wikipedia:
Trump invited Harp to speak at the Republican National Convention in August 2020.[3] Her speech compared Trump to George Bailey, the protagonist of It's a Wonderful Life (1946),[7] leading to criticism from the family of the character's actor, Jimmy Stewart.[8] By August, she had become a member of the advisory board for Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.[9]
A reminder that Jimmy Stewart was a lifelong conservative Republican. Donald Trump is Mr. Potter in It's Wonderful Life. He's as far from George Bailey as one can get.
Harp is responsible for most of the unhinged posts on Trump's Truth Social. According to Wikipedia:
Cha
(321,745 posts)idiot, and ugly ass Racist.
Liberty University, "Christian", which means in this case they support Pedophiles, a Rapist, Homicidal Maniacs, stealing from the poor to give to Billionaires. etc etc ad nauseam.
I looked her up in wiki, too.. Thanks for posting it.
Aristus
(72,807 posts)Poison capsules in her future, maybe?
Cheezoholic
(4,203 posts)An unequivocal irresponsible MORON
— Marty Ema (@emaenoiaen.bsky.social) 2026-05-13T23:19:13.777Z
Trump Team Is Pissed at Aide Secretly Enabling Crazed Nighttime Rants
Harp doesn't share her drafts with anyone else in White House but the president, claiming she works for him & only him, reported the WSJ.
newrepublic.com/post/210363/... via @newrepublic.com
Cha
(321,745 posts)Where's melania in all this?
niyad
(135,744 posts)MineralMan
(152,152 posts)I don't see why this story is significant in any way. Nobody cares if Trump is boinking his personal assistant. He's not Bill Clinton, for pete's sake!
yardwork
(70,178 posts)Apparently she's up all night with him, feeding him memes and internet crap that he reposts with her assistance. She may be writing the posts.
She's helping Trump be the worst version of himself. It's an irritant to Republicans because they wish Trump would stop posting this embarrassing crap. The MAGA base loves it, though.
It's an interesting story to me because it shows how one person's actions can have an outsized impact on a presidency. Does it matter? I don't know.
Cha
(321,745 posts)explaining some of why.
Here is Wiz Imp's excerpt from Wikipedia.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21330829
mdbl
(9,095 posts)Joining the female magats that still do the same thing.
Wounded Bear
(64,920 posts)I don't think so. That level of narcissism precludes any form of healthy relationship.
Kid Berwyn
(25,677 posts)Everything he touches
LessAspin
(2,177 posts)Pototan
(3,258 posts)LessAspin
(2,177 posts)She helps put these crazy things into Trump's head and then promotes it on social media..
Trump returns to the White House after lunch at his Virginia golf course. Natalie Harp goes in first, carrying his diaper bag.
— Molly Ploofkins (@mollyploofkins.bsky.social) 2026-06-27T20:53:26.121Z
Weird. Natalie Harp's brother claims she is estranged from much of her family because she wanted to hide the fact that her dad committed suicide, and the rest of the family wasn't down with that.
— Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) 2026-06-26T20:08:29.723Z
Brother also doesn't get how she can work for Trump. Daddy issues maybe?
www.rawstory.com/natalie-harp/
King Trumpâs obsessively loyal personal assistant, 34y/o Natalie Harp, is facing public scrutiny after her brother accused her of having a "very unhealthy" relationship with the president. Harp is a constant presence at official & personal events. Her devotion to Trump alarmed Secret Service agents
— Bruce Little (@brucedlittle.bsky.social) 2026-06-27T06:21:54.675Z
surfered
(15,317 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,310 posts)ivanka doesn't seem to be in his orbit as much anymore, she seems to be spending more time with her real hubby, jared.
Also, ivanka is nearing 50, a tad old for daddy-o.
Blue Owl
(60,220 posts)Response to Pototan (Original post)
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LetMyPeopleVote
(184,619 posts)There have been fewer typos and misspelled words is trump's posts lately but there are still weird capitalizations and strange phrasing. I have suspected that someone is helping trump in these posts. It seems that a trump "employee" stays up late to help trump in these posts.
An unequivocal irresponsible MORON
— Marty Ema (@emaenoiaen.bsky.social) 2026-05-13T23:19:13.777Z
Trump Team Is Pissed at Aide Secretly Enabling Crazed Nighttime Rants
Harp doesn't share her drafts with anyone else in White House but the president, claiming she works for him & only him, reported the WSJ.
newrepublic.com/post/210363/... via @newrepublic.com
https://newrepublic.com/post/210363/donald-trump-team-pissed-aide-nighttime-social-media
Donald Trumps executive assistant Natalie Harp is the woman behind his overnight Truth Social sprees, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Through twilight-hour shifts, Harp has created the impression that the president never sleeps and is instead spending his should-be bedtime obsessively retweeting baseless conspiracies about the 2020 presidential election and Fox News headlines about his purported popularity among the American public.
The 34-year-old aide supplies the president with stacks of printed-out drafts and awaits his approval before hitting post, sources told the Journal.
Her work has included posts that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ. Trump took down both posts after they spurred immense public backlash. In the former instance, Trump claimed he did not see the section of the video that racistly mocked the former president and first lady. A White House official blamed the mistake on an editing error.
The frustration lies partly in the perceived chain of command: Harp does not share her drafts with anyone else in the White House but the president, claiming that she works for him and only him, reported the Journal. Thats prompted tensions between Harp and some of the federal employees affected by her incendiary writing, such as the chief of staffs office.
I have no doubt that trump's relationship with this lady goes beyond late nights editing of internet posts.
Liberal In Texas
(16,565 posts)She is apparently spending late nights with him. We know he's the kind of guy who grabs women by the... I can't believe she puts up a fight.
Pototan
(3,258 posts)when I first read this article