The White Home on Monday lashed out at a CNN reporter after she requested a query about President Donald Trump’s relationship with an aide, within the newest in a collection of assaults on feminine journalists.
Throughout an occasion within the Oval Workplace, reporter Kristen Holmes requested Trump, 80, to answer feedback by a Democratic lawmaker concerning the president’s govt assistant Natalie Harp, 35.
“Sometime, your youngsters will come throughout your disgusting and inhumane query,” the White Home’s “Fast Response” crew stated in an X publish directed at Holmes and linking to a video of Trump’s response.
The Republican chief later berated Holmes as “very disrespectful” as she requested a query on North Korea.
The occasion was to honor a teenage lifeguard who saved a toddler from swells, however the president opened the ground to questions on unrelated points, as he repeatedly does.
“You are a loud, boisterous particular person, you are pretend information, be quiet,” Trump stated to Holmes.
.@POTUS: “You are very disrespectful in entrance of this younger man… You are a loud, boisterous particular person. You are Pretend Information. Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You are a pretend reporter and also you report FAKE NEWS.” https://t.co/ag30QbC3Iu pic.twitter.com/BciRrLrCKD
— Fast Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 17, 2026
CNN stated the assaults on Holmes had been “beneath the workplace.”
“We stand firmly behind Kristen and reject these assaults within the strongest potential phrases,” it stated in an announcement.
Natalie Harp has been the topic of latest web commentary after it emerged she was one of many few aides with Trump throughout a secret Air Drive One swap in July.
Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator and potential 2028 presidential contender, accused Trump in a marketing campaign speech on Sunday of desirous to “construct his ballroom and journey with Natalie” as an alternative of doing his job.
Trump dismissed Ossoff as a “Pee-wee Herman lookalike” and defended his development of a $400 million ballroom on the White Home, however didn’t point out his aide.
The White Home criticized Holmes for asking about Harp throughout an occasion with the lifeguard.
“@POTUS hosts a hero lifeguard within the Oval Workplace and she or he makes use of it as a possibility to take an affordable shot about one among President Trump’s staffers,” the Fast Response account stated.
“These scumbags are the bottom of the low.”
Harp, a former tv information persona, is regularly seen at Trump’s aspect and has been dubbed the “human printer” for supplying the president with print-outs of knowledge.
Within the e book “Regime Change” printed this yr, two New York Occasions reporters wrote that Harp’s loyalty prolonged to writing him “adoring letters” together with one which learn: “You’re all that issues to me.”
White Home Communications Director Steven Cheung had earlier slammed Ossoff for the Harp feedback, calling him “the largest cuck loser in politics” — utilizing web slang for a submissive man.
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