Donald Trump angrily shouted ‘quiet’ at a female CNN reporter after she asked about his relationship with his 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp.
The President’s relationship with Harp has come under renewed scrutiny after Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff mocked the pair at a rally in Georgia on Saturday.
CNN’s Kristen Holmes asked Trump for his response to Ossoff’s claim that he would rather ‘build his ballroom and travel with Natalie’ than do the job of the President.
Trump called Ossoff a ‘Pee-wee Herman lookalike’ and said that ‘we’re fixing a White House that hasn’t been taken care of.’
Harp has been one of Trump’s closest aides for years and is dubbed the ‘human printer’ as she carries bundles of news articles around for him to read.
Holmes attempted to follow up with a question about South Korea before Trump had finished speaking, sending him into a tailspin.
‘Quiet. Quiet. Quiet!’ Trump shouted at Holmes.
‘You’re very disrespectful in front of this young man,’ Trump said, gesturing to ten-year-old Nathaniel Rai, who was being recognized at the White House after he was rescued from rough surf in California last month.
Donald Trump angrily shouted ‘quiet’ at a female CNN reporter after she asked about his relationship with his 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp in the Oval Office on Monday
CNN Senior White House Correspondent Kristen Holmes speaks live on television in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 27
Trump and aide Natalie Harp exit Marine One on the Ellipse near the White House on August 16
Harp listens as Trump announces Dulles International Airport renovations in the Oval Office on July 29
‘You’re a loud, boisterous person. You’re fake news,’ Trump added as he repeatedly told Holmes ‘be quiet’ while she battled to get her question across.
Outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared furious and mouthed something to a colleague after Holmes asked her question.
The official White House social media account and its proxies rounded on Holmes afterwards.
‘Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question,’ said the official Rapid Response 47 account. ‘They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive. It’s quite troubling.’
The White House branded Holmes ‘a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession.’
Holmes is a Senior White House Correspondent at CNN where she has worked for more than 14 years. The Daily Mail has contacted Holmes for comment.
Trump’s relationship with Harp is back in the limelight after he chose to save her over his own cabinet secretaries amid an Iranian assassination threat following the NATO summit in Turkey last month.
Harp was among a handful of aides including Trump’s former caddy Dan Scavino who switched planes with him on the tarmac in Ankara.
Donald Trump meets with 16-year-old California State Parks lifeguard Ryder Williams (left) and 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai in the Oval Office at the White House on August 17
Israeli intelligence had warned of an impending Iranian attack on Air Force One. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were left on the plane with dozens of journalists.
Harp is never far from the president and is trusted with taking dictation on the market-moving posts he makes to his Truth Social account, where he often announces major decision such as strikes on Iran or tariffs on foreign countries.
She once ran behind his golf cart while he was playing in Scotland to keep him up to date with the latest news headlines.
Harp is Trump’s ‘connective tissue’, sources told the Daily Mail, with some pointing out that she has more access than even his chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Harp famously wrote, ‘You’re all that matters to me,’ in a letter to Trump published by the New York Times in 2024.
