Rising Democratic star Abdul El-Sayed has taken a shot at President Donald Trump’s growing Natalie Harp drama.
El-Sayed, who is running for Senate in Michigan, called out Trump after the president took a nasty dig at him Friday night, claiming he campaigned with a “communist fanatic” and that his mother financed Osama Bin Laden.
El-Sayed, 41, fired back Saturday on X, “Natalie, I think he’s had a little too much iPad for the week. He needs his rest.”
The president’s executive assistant, Harp, 35, is paid $150,000 annually and has been dubbed his “human printer” because she follows him around with printouts of articles and social media posts.
She also helps the 80-year-old president craft his posts, and this week it was revealed that she is unusually close to him. The Daily Beast obtained letters showing their communication goes beyond a typical boss-subordinate relationship.
The White House and El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In one 2023 letter, Harp writes that she is envious of women “whose only job seems to be to talk with you and look pretty.” She then adds that she misses the days when he would call “and we’d talk about everything and nothing.”
Harp left her job as a right-wing One America News host to work for Trump in 2022. Now, she is often photographed with the president and travels with him when he leaves Washington.
Harp was even one of just three aides who snuck off Air Force One in a catering truck with Trump during a security threat in Ankara, Turkey, while senior administration members—like Secretary of State Marco Rubio—and White House press were left to fly on the plane deemed to be at risk.
The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has described Harp as the president’s “human binkie” because Trump treats her like a comfort blanket.
Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff used a rally last weekend to attack the president’s relationship with Harp—shining fresh attention on her relationship with Trump.
“He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff said of Trump. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.”
The comments, which Ossoff doubled down on later in the week, set off a firestorm in the MAGA world, with Trump’s army of sycophants furious that Harp was being scrutinized—though their own outrage has brought even more attention to the president’s blonde aide.
