A beautiful and superfluous woman is the mark of a king. Why, then, did the Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff want the American people googling Natalie Harp? Did he think that the American people would suddenly turn on Donald Trump over suspicions as to his marital fidelity?
Trump doesn’t trust men and enjoys the platonic company of women
Last month, as is now well known, Trump was smuggled from Air Force One in a catering trolley in order to confound a possible Iranian assassination plot. Other White House staff, including Marco Rubio, remained on the official jet. But Harp, reportedly after some internal dramas, traveled with the President on a second plane.
This is useful information for Democrats looking, as ever, to do down the President. “He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff told a rally in Georgia on Sunday. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie.” So came the headlines, all variations on “Who the hell is Natalie?” rife with speculation that Trump is having an affair with the 35-year-old.
It doesn’t help matters that she looks like his daughter, Ivanka. They are both icy blondes with square jaws and small noses – the only difference being their teeth. And since Ivanka has created a healthy distance between herself and her father’s second presidency, Natalie seems to have filled a void. The Trump-Harp relationship might be less a romantic liaison, then, more a substitute father-daughter situationship.
Harp is often seen hustling across golf courses towards the President. She wrote him a letter, reported recently by the New York Times, to apologize for being an “embarrassment” on a golf course in Scotland. It’s unclear exactly what she felt she did wrong. According to the Times, Harp says in her missive that she wants “things to always be right” between her and the President – and adds that she works so hard and with so much devotion that she does not eat and forgets to sleep.
Harp’s job, as far as anyone can work out, is to carry hard copies of articles, press releases and other miscellaneous communications for Donald Trump to read. Information flows to and from the President through her. Her official title is Special Assistant and Executive Assistant to the President, but she is called “the human printer.” She is also a human voice recorder. Videos online show Trump dictating Truth Social posts to her which she embellishes with Trumpian flourishes.
Trump’s social-media prose looms over the imaginations of his young believers – larger, perhaps, than any other aspect of his career. It is distinctive. Communications is arguably the one area in which he is a true giant and Natalie Harp sits closer to this aspect of his life than anyone else, which might be why she so fascinates journalists.
It’s interesting to note, however, that Trump is not the first President for whom Natalie has been passionate. Her brother told CNN that when she was young, she wrote a letter to George W. Bush.
Today, she is the perfect secretary to the CEO of America. Trump doesn’t trust men and enjoys the platonic company of women. “The girls,” as he called them back in his Apprentice years, have always had a special role to play in his career. Trump’s critics often sexualize these relationships. Yet they seem emotional more than physical.
Susie Wiles, for example, exercises a bizarre hold over Trump and has earned her the title of Trump whisperer. Ivanka, during the first term, played a similar role: listening, soothing and deftly exercising the President’s will. So too, in her own unique way, did Kellyanne Conway. Matriarchal authority mixed with filial devotion is an essential component of the Trump machine.
For all the rumor and innuendo, Trump is a man who respects feminine power. And it helps that Natalie Harp isn’t married to Jared Kushner. She doesn’t take days off to go to family weddings in the Bahamas. She doesn’t leave his side.
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