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Few qualities carry more weight for Donald Trump than loyalty, and few aides embody it as fully as his executive assistant, Natalie Harp.

A former TV presenter, Harp is a near-constant presence at Trump’s side — encouraging his Oval Office redesigns, typing up his Truth Social tirades and printing out online articles, a role that has earned her the nickname “the human printer.” She also leaves behind admiring notes for him to discover. Her devotion is so pronounced that the 80-year-old Republican once declared: “She’ll never leave me.”

These details about one of the most influential White House aides were revealed by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a word stronger than “sycophant”?

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Parasite ... Not all are damaging ...

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

I wonder if she is a cult member or just trying to get to be the second first lady for the money.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 4 points 18 hours ago

She will leave quite quickly if he loses elections. Also I have a feeling that Trump would really like chatgpt.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 7 points 21 hours ago

RIP Firecracker

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 1 day ago

Smart woman knows the easiest way to advance her career by manipulating her boss

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 109 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not a cult, by the way. The rest of us are deranged.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

At their level it's not a cult, it's weekend at Bernie's.

They know he's a pathetic sack of shit, but they know all they have to do is kiss his ass and deflect blame.

Some hit their limit and can't keep up the act, they get replaced. Eventually all that's left is blind sycophants with zero limits.

At the level of voters, it's a cult. Just not for those around him constantly.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Yuk. Some people will do anything for power.

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

I'm am sick and tired of this deranged cult.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Fuck this Nazi scumbag.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"You remind me of my daughter..."

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 19 hours ago

He said while she sucked him off. Allegedly.

[–] iz_ok@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nothing to back this up but I assume she is some type of foreign asset. Not that they would really need to much to influence him but a pretty blonde lady is absolutely the winning move.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get it, what's suspicious about a skinny 34-year-old blonde wanting to spend all her time around an 80-year-old diaper-smelling man-child who has literally nothing valuable about his life or personality except his fleeting grasp of unearned power and money?

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

YEA! just let people love eachother man! freelove! They're all consenting adults, age gaps a commie liberul myth, amirite? It's not illegal so there's nothing wrong about a rich man having a gf who happens to be 50 years younger than them. That's just called capitalism in action. Free love and free markets, amirite brothers?

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Imagine how low you must value yourself to sign up for that gig....

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Idk, as a foreign asset... Look, you'd be the ultimate bootlicker, but if you were fully bought into your nation as a project, sucking off one shit-crusted diaper dick to bend a global superpower to your whims is not a bad deal.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

What's it pay though?

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Natalie Harp honest to God sounds like a fake name a foreign asset would have. For real.

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[–] rangber@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

didn't we crucify Clinton for shit less obvious than this?

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not just Clinton, Trump gets a free pass or at best a slap on the wrist for shit that others would go to prison for.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

He gets away with stuff that angry mobs tear monsters apart for.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they call him teflon don because if you bring him above 260C(500F) he starts degrading and emitting volatile organic compounds

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He is emitting VOCs already.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Excuse me but I proposed a hypothesis and the irb said yes

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe we can use the baseline and see of the factor is linear when heat is applied.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i propose a new hypothesis that the factor of degradation is geometric because now we can disagree about and test something. isn't collaborative science fun!

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Oh good golly! Clipboards at the ready!

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 24 points 1 day ago

Choosing to be an old pedophile's cum rag would be sad if it wasn't so disgusting

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She looks like Ivanka, possibly a handler of some billionaire and/or foreign power?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bet she is handling something

[–] errer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

His diaper?

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago
[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago

What the fuck is it with this guy that women seem to fawn over him?

Or is it just extreme mental illness on their part?

Actually now I've written it out....

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Private spaces", like inside his diaper?

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Didn’t work for firecracker and won’t work for her

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago

Maggie Haberman could have made a little less by being a reporter-whistleblower-hero, but that would have been risking her skin and bank account balance, rather than growing that balance.

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