• joe@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    For anyone curious, the journalist is Kristen Holmes and she asked him about this remark from Senator Jon Ossoff:

    “While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. So 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.”

    “Natalie” refers to Natalie Harp.

    The article I’ve linked has this to say about Ms. Harp:

    In a 2024 profile, The New York Times said Harp writes “devotional” letters to Trump, including messages like "You are all that matters to me” and “I want to bring you joy,” as well as one calling him her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

    That same article claimed that others in Trump’s orbit described her as the “human printer” because she would travel with a portable printer to print things for him, and that she types his social media messages and posts them for him.

    Over the summer, her brother, Preston Harp, said his sister’s relationship with the president was “very unhealthy".

    “She’s just like his fan club,” he told the Daily Mail.