Trump’s supporters and members of his administration gather regularly around the president’s desk to sing his praises and brag about all that has been accomplished that they say only he can do, all the while Donald Trump is taking a nap.

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The president has fallen asleep on evangelical Christians in the Oval Office.

Trump fell asleep multiple times during a women’s health event.

Donald Trump seems to average falling asleep during a public event at least once a month. The president even fell asleep during the 4th of July fireworks.

None of these moments of reality have deterred those around Trump from continuing the charade that he is a functional president.

On Monday, the White House held an event touting its supposed lowering of prescription drug prices, even though studies have shown the claimed price drops are bogus because the administration's math relies on manipulated data, and the White House has never released its methodology for calculating these price decreases.

As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (R-Jeffrey Epstein) and Dr. Oz spoke, this was Donald Trump:

There was even more to Trump’s slumber.

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As Republicans are facing a potential disaster in the midterm elections, they have been pleading with Donald Trump to start spending some of the hundreds of millions of dollars that he has raised to help them in November.

After Trump melted down and threatened NBC’s Kristen Welker because she stated that Trump’s endorsements have been a mixed bag, it appears that Republicans aren’t going to get the financial help that they are seeking, but may get a whole lot more Trump.

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Fox News’s Peter Doocy reported, “We are hearing some whispers about a ton of Trump travel in October. Possibly as much as a Trump rally a day in the most competitive states and districts, and that is something you don’t typically see from a president in a set of midterms that are historically very hard for a president and his party.”

Does anyone seriously believe that a president who, when he last campaigned in 2024, had trouble holding multiple events on the same day and had to have his campaign events staggered so that he could have rest days in between them is going to be able to crisscross the country and hold daily rallies?”

Trump has shown no interest in campaigning and has reportedly complained every time he has held an event for a Republican candidate about the travel.

The problem is that Trump is declining and showed the severity of his decline during a taped interview that aired Sunday night on Fox News.

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The presidency is about much more than the person living in the building. The power of the presidency comes from the people. The people empower presidents by electing them, but they can also limit or expand their power by deciding whether the president's party or the opposition controls Congress.

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Donald Trump is term-limited, so if voters give Democrats control of all or part of Congress, it will limit Trump’s ability to act in many areas and shift the country toward electing the next president in 2028.

Polling shows that Democrats are the favored party to win November, so Trump is eye to eye with the end of his presidency.

When Kristen Welker went on the local NBC affiliate in Washington, DC, to promote Meet the Press and made the evenhanded statement, “He's (Trump) going to loom large over these midterms. There's no doubt about that. He, of course, has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He's had some mixed results, but most recently, his pick of Senator Darline Graham, of course, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, was successful in her primary battle, so now she takes on Dr. Annie Andrews in South Carolina."

Nothing that Welker said was factually inaccurate or partisan. Her statement was about as evenhanded as possible.

Trump will be a major factor in the midterms, and he has some big endorsement failures in his own party.

Telling Trump that he is not as powerful within the Republican Party as he used to be set him off and caused the president to threaten Welker with an FCC investigation.

None of this is really about Welker or her statement. It is all about Trump’s loss of power.

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Donald Trump regularly shows the American people that he is not well. The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is coming up in two weeks, and it is expected that the President Of The United States will show up at ground zero in New York City to mark the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on domestic soil in the nation’s history.

Former presidents are going to be there. Other officials are going to be there, but one person will be missing.

Donald Trump reportedly won’t be showing up because he is not allowed to give a speech.

The New York Times reported:

President Trump is not planning to attend a ceremony in Manhattan for the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, in part because he wanted to deliver a speech and the annual event has long barred remarks, according to four people with knowledge of the events.

Mr. Trump’s team had conducted advance visits at the site and had initially signaled to officials in New York and in Washington that the president intended to visit the memorial space known as ground zero, two of the people with knowledge of the events said.

Even though Trump spends his presidency showing contempt for America and its allies, the president absolutely lost his mind over the report in the New York Times.

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Donald Trump was convicted of nearly three dozen felonies related to fraud and falsification of business records. Trump doesn’t talk about his felony convictions, but his critics do.

Being a convicted felon clearly bothers Trump, which is why he has never stopped trying to get his convictions overturned.

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Trump has been arguing since the Supreme Court granted him immunity for official acts that his payoff to Stormy Daniels was an official presidential act, so his felony case should have been in federal court.

Moving his appeal to federal court would make it easier to overturn his convictions.

District Judge Alvin Hellerstein smashed Trump’s argument in his ruling:

Trump argues that there was emphasis at the trial on NYEL § 17-152 and its 'unlawful means' requirement, and that this was something new. See Trump Br. 30-32. It was not new. I treated all these issues in my opinion. I held that "violations of FECA and NYEL § 17-152 are not elements of the crime charged.

The only elements are the falsification of business records, an intent to defraud, and an intent to commit or conceal another crime. The People need not establish that Trump or any other person actually violated NYEL § 17-152 or FECA." Id. at 349.

The judge was not buying Trump’s argument at all.

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The Supreme Court majority’s ruling that presidents have immunity for official acts means that if Democrats take back the House majority in a little more than two months, they are planning on handling investigations into potential Trump corruption differently than they did during the president’s first term.

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Corruption in the second Trump administration appears more out in the open and involves people and organizations not covered by Trump’s immunity for official acts.

Any immunity from criminal prosecution that covers Trump and his official actions does not apply to members of his administration, his family, or anyone who is doing business with the Trumps.

House Democrats have already said that they plan to investigate Trump’s family and those doing business with them, but the thought of the Trump family being investigated nearly sent the Speaker of the House, or co-president as he likes to call himself, into hysterics.

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The FDA has warned the American people not to use kratom, a dangerous plant-based product that in small doses acts as a stimulant, but in larger doses has opioid effects and is addictive.

Kratom is not the sort of product that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should be taking money from or giving favorable policies to, but that is what HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is accused of doing.

Kratom products are sold in gas stations around the country, and they have been linked to liver toxicity, seizures, and thousands of deaths.

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According to a New York Times investigation published in June:

Mr. Kennedy, as health secretary, called the governor of Ohio to try to head off a state ban on kratom in the fall of 2025. Months later, Botanic Tonics donated $1 million to a political committee associated with Mr. Kennedy.

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The administration’s receptiveness to kratom comes as Mr. Trump has also expressed a willingness to loosen rules covering other drugs backed by influence campaigns, including cannabis and psychedelics. The permissive posture stands in contrast to Mr. Trump’s baseless skepticism about highly regulated and widely used medications like Tylenol and vaccines.

When Kennedy was asked about this $1 million donation, it did not go well.

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The question of what the government should do is the most fundamental in any society. What should government do is the fundamental question that political discourse in the United States revolves around.

Donald Trump's second administration has brought an equally important question to the forefront.

Who should government work for?

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According to the Founders and more than two centuries of history, the government should operate with the well-being of all in mind.

When Donald Trump returned to the White House, he ushered in the country’s first presidency that has been of, for, and by the billionaire class.

As a result, Americans who aren’t rich have been left behind. Inflation is high, programs have been gutted, and the opportunities for economic advancement are very limited.

Rep. Jamie Raskin is traveling the country on a tour campaigning for Democratic candidates.

On Wednesday, Raskin was in Michigan, where he said, “ One party, our party, says the government must be an instrument for the common good and the public well-being for every person in the country, and the other party says the government is an instrument for the private self-enrichment of one guy and his family and his businesses and the corruption of the government. It's time for us to take America back from MAGA.”

Clip of Raskin:

Raskin campaigned hard on democracy, and why Democrats are the democracy party.

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Trump appears to have started a new trade war with Canada because the war in Iran has failed, and the president needs an ego boost.

The problem is that every one of Trump’s ego-boost moves comes at a price, and in the case of the trade war with Canada, the price could be Republican control of the US Senate.

Two currently Republican-held seats were already in toss-up territory before Trump’s new trade war. After Trump announced a new 50% tariff on hundreds of Canadian imports, Canada responded in kind with a tit-for-tat response to Trump.

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The problem is that the states that will be hit hardest by the Canadian retaliation often have Senate races that Republicans must win to keep their majority.

Politico reported:

Trump’s latest actions — especially his decision to impose 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, inviting retaliatory duties from America’s No. 2 trading partner — has sparked new pushback from GOP lawmakers and candidates.

His moves are set to reverberate especially hard in a handful of states crucial to the party’s hopes of keeping their Senate majority. That includes northern border states, such as Maine and Michigan, as well as agriculture-heavy battlegrounds like Iowa and North Carolina that have been buffeted for more than a year by Trump’s embrace of hardball trade tactics.

The agricultural states were already hurting, and it is about to get even worse before the midterm election.

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Due to Republican efforts to gerrymander their way into saving the House majority, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) lost a runoff in the Democratic primary in a newly created district, but that doesn’t mean that Rep. Green plans to leave the House quietly.

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According to Rep. Green’s office, the congressman has filed a resolution, “to impeach President Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors. The resolution states that President Trump abused his presidential powers by allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to operate without accountability, assault civilians, and cover up killings, including those of Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.”

Green also personally wrote to Donald Trump to let him know the articles of impeachment had been filed.

Article I of the filing states:

Our country and the lives of people within it are at risk as President Donald John Trump is a great threat to the United States democratic republic, its Constitution, and democracy, violating Article II, Section 1, Clause 8 of the 3 United States Constitution and its mandate to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, as he is abusing the powers of the presidency by operating United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as his vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces, transgressing with anonymity and secrecy, assaulting people, committing and covering up unjustified killings of civilians (including Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero) with impunity (acting as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner), terrorizing communities, and brazenly and wantonly devolving the United States democratic republic into an authoritarian regime, where unjustified killings and coverups by ICE and CBP are normalized.

Green’s letter told Trump why this action was being taken.

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The Republican theory of the midterm election is that even though Americans are showing historic levels of anger at Republicans and the current president, the midterm election is going to be a low-turnout base election that will keep Republicans in control of the House and Senate.

The belief that the midterm will be a low-turnout election is the only justification for a strategy that involves sending Donald Trump out to campaign and House Republicans cozying up to Trump.

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Election results since 2025 show voters turning against Republicans in historic ways. Republicans are losing elections in some of the most conservative areas of the country where they have not lost in decades.

The writing is on the wall that the 2026 midterm election could be a blowout loss for Republicans. Donald Trump seems oblivious to what is going on in the country and the anger of voters.

Trump continues to tell voters that the economy is great and that there is no affordability crisis, while he starts a new trade war with Canada and his approval ratings reach new lows.

Republicans are deep into the denial of reality, which would explain why Speaker Mike Johnson is running around the country calling himself Trump’s co-president.

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In July, as the war in Iran continued to sputter and economic pressure grew on the American people from higher gasoline prices, Donald Trump, out of the blue, announced a new 50% tariff threat on Canadian goods.

Politically, it seems Trump was looking for an easy win, but he got another setup for defeat.

The Trump tariffs are very unpopular in the United States. The tariffs, along with the Iran war, are viewed as drivers of inflation.

The Mike Pence-founded conservative think tank Advancing American Freedom wrote in a recent policy memo about Trump’s tariffs:

American families, not foreign countries, are bearing the burdens for the administration’s tariff policies. Congress must reclaim its power to ensure there is “no taxation without representation.”

These are not the words used to describe a popular policy.

Trump is starting a trade war with Canada from a position of ultimate political weakness.

David Frum summed up the Trump administration’s one thought on Canada:

The Trump administration has one big idea about Canada: The U.S. is larger, stronger, and richer than Canada, so Canada must sooner or later surrender to Trump’s demands. That one big idea is wrong.

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Yes, Trump can hurt Canada more than Canada can hurt Trump. That part of Trump’s thinking is true. But wars are not decided only by the question Who can inflict more pain? Wars are also decided by the question Who can endure more pain? Trump’s failure to accept this truth is why he lost the Iran war—and why he is losing his trade wars.

Trump has set himself up for another loss, and one look at how Canada is reacting to this trade war shows why.

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NBC’s Kristen Welker is one of Trump’s favorites to grant mainstream interviews to, because Welker doesn’t worship Trump like Fox News and Newsmax, but she also doesn’t push back too hard on anything.

The Sunday shows and mainstream media survive on access, so part of the game is that they don’t push back too hard.

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These media personalities seem to have a primary rule of never burning any bridges, but the Trump/Republican excuse of blaming Joe Biden for the economy and inflation was something that even Welker felt the need to push back on during an interview with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Meet The Press.

Welker asked Scott:

Senator, I’m talking about costs. And American families are also paying more in the wake of President Trump’s taxes and tariffs. In fact, Senator Susan Collins of Maine said this. “If the administration proceeds with these tariffs, they will increase costs for Maine families as most businesses will have no choice but to pass on the tariffs to their customers through higher prices.” Is she right, particularly given that we have seen that in the past, given the president’s tariffs?

Scott answered by blaming Biden, “Well, Kristen, you’re talking about a really important issue of cost. Let’s look back at the original sin of costs in America in the last eight years. It goes to Joe Biden who took inflation--”

Welker responded, “Wait, President Trump has been in office for two years.”

Scott kept trying to blame Biden for Trump’s economy.

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The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have put the stories together and gathered evidence that Donald Trump and his allies are selling pardons.

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What appears to have been a sideline industry of presidential abuse of power has expanded into what Democrats called a full-blown cottage industry in Trump’s second term.

The Democrats wrote in their report:

President Donald Trump and a coterie of MAGA insiders have built up in his second Administration a cottage industry of shady operatives, big campaign donors, and lawyer influence-brokers who lobby the White House and the Trump family to secure presidential pardons and commutations on behalf of unrepentant white-collar fraudsters and unbending con men, corrupt foreign government officials and kleptocrat presidents, and international narcotraffickers.

The new cash-for-clemency underworld operates outside the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its Office of the Pardon Attorney, which traditionally imposed specific proof requirements for recommending pardons: petitioner rehabilitation, remorse, redemption, and paid restitution, in addition to fairness, mercy, and overriding merit.

But the MAGA pardon underworld operates entirely on the supplicant’s willingness to pay for access to the President and his associates in his inner circle. This shocking new descent in presidential ethics and conduct undermines the federal justice system, robs victims of nearly $1.7 billion in restitution and fines, and effects a massive redistribution of wealth in favor of convicted criminals, MAGA insiders, and the President himself.

This is a massive scandal that would have already brought down any other administration, but it is the tip of the Trump second administration iceberg.

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Donald Trump’s approval rating is beginning to reach lows that no president has hit since George W. Bush at the start of the Great Recession. An intelligent political party would be trying to hide and run away from a leader for whom the descriptor radioactively toxic is an understatement.

The Republican Party is not smart, so they are doing the opposite.

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If roughly 70% of America opposes Donald Trump, the Republican Party has decided that the ideal answer is to give the country more Trump.

Semafor reported:

Trump’s visit to Myrtle Beach — where he hopes to provide a boost to Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C. — comes as Republicans face a difficult path to retaining full control of Washington. The White House is shifting to an all-hands-on-deck approach, with Vice President JD Vance also campaigning in Ohio today.

A White House official told Semafor that Trump plans to continue traveling the country in the months ahead despite myriad foreign policy challenges. Trump has sought to shift focus away from the unpopular Iran conflict recently, though his pivot to economic penalties could make it harder for Republicans to make inroads on affordability.

It is all hands on deck, as an unpopular administration has decided that it is going to go coast to coast, dooming Republican candidates by reminding voters that the Republican on the ballot in their district or state is an extension of the president and vice president that they really don’t like.

Democratic dreams are coming true, as they couldn’t have come up with a better plan to win the midterm election if they wrote it themselves.

The last thing that voters want to see is a billionaire president telling them that everything is great and all of their concerns about affordability and gas prices are a hoax.

If Donald Trump is going to be campaigning for Republicans, a whole lot of Republicans are going to lose elections.

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts thought that there was enough of a debatable legal question about Trump’s authority to destroy the White House and build a ballroom.

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Roberts wrote in the order:

UPON CONSIDERATION of the application of counsel for the applicants, the response, and the reply filed thereto,

IT IS ORDERED that the preliminary injunction entered on April 16, 2026, by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, case No. 1:25-cv-4316, is hereby stayed pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court.

CNN reported:

Construction has been progressing rapidly, with a 250-person crew working 20-hour days, 7 days per week, according to a filing submitted by the Trump administration to the Supreme Court. The government put the ballroom complex at “65% complete in its entirety.”

The order from Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles emergency cases rising from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, did not set a new deadline, meaning the construciton can continue at the White House until the Supreme Court issues another order.

If the conservative majority decides to drag its feet hearing the case, the ballroom might be finished before the Supreme Court issues another ruling.

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No one thinks 80-year-old Donald Trump is having an affair with Natalie Harp. Republicans wish this were the case so that they could sell Trump as virile and able to at least do something, instead of the out-of-touch old man who wanders around pretending that he is remodeling the White House when he is vandalizing it.

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When Republicans think that they need a boost in the public eye, there is one person that they always call.

America’s MIA First Lady Melania Trump showed back up at the White House on Thursday.

It is clear that the president who has a difficult time staying awake in public isn’t cavorting around with a 35-year-old aide. When Sen. Jon Ossoff brought up Harp’s name, he hit a sore spot with Trump and his inner circle, but the truth about what Harp really does is much more damaging to the image of Donald Trump and the Republican Party itself than silly claims about an affair.

Harp isn’t the president’s diaper-bag lady, or his nurse and medical aide, as some have claimed online.

Natalie Harp is a declining old man’s emotional support animal. As Trump fails in every respect, he needs constant love and affirmation, and that is what Harp provides.

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The President Of The United States has the biggest platform in domestic politics. What a president chooses to talk about or not talk about shapes the national dialogue around elections. A president’s party needs its president to provide steady, consistent messaging because it creates consistent communication and builds unity around the entire election effort.

Donald Trump has always intentionally refused to believe the real reason why he won the 2024 election. Trump convinced himself that he won because most voters supported his immigration policies or wanted him back in the White House after he lost in 2020.

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Polling, including 2024 election day polling, showed that voters who swung to Trump in 2024 after not supporting him in 2020 did so because of the economy, specifically prices and inflation.

Trump campaigned on costs and inflation, but as soon as he won the election, he announced that he would not be doing anything about it, which was one of the few promises that he has kept.

What Trump didn’t tell the American people was that his policies, such as tariffs and tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, would make the affordability crisis worse.

Trump not only avoids talking about affordability, but when he does, he dismisses the issue completely.

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Completely oblivious to the collapsing economy and electoral backlash growing around him, Donald Trump gathered reporters to talk about his favorite subject and what he seems to view as the real purpose of his presidency.

The president gave reporters a tour of his act of vandalism being perpetrated against the American people on the White House grounds.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was forced to act on Wednesday to steady the US bond market because worrying signs were increasing that Trump’s Iran war is pushing the country closer to economic collapse.

A new series of primaries on Tuesday night provided more evidence that Republicans are facing a bloodbath in November, but instead, Donald Trump admitted to taking bribes from companies while ranting about how he is destroying the White House.

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Trump said:

 It's a million-year life. It's a very strong stone. It will never break. It will never leak. It will never do any- This is the highest quality stone you can get, and especially for something like this. It's got... It's rated a million-year plus. That means it has a million-year life. Can you imagine that? It's 35,000 pounds per square inch.

If you look at hard concrete, hard concrete is 5,000 pounds. Uh, this is 35,000. So nature is stronger than what the human can produce. It's really pretty amazing. Uh, it comes from California, uh, from a, uh, quarry in California, and it's a very special stone. This is also used.

America needs leadership, but the president is MIA and off, treating the White House like a toy.

Trump became more deranged and corrupt the longer that he spoke.

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Trump went ballistic yesterday on Sen. Jon Ossoff, and the White House has been criticizing the Georgia Democrat, saying he took a cheap shot at the president.

You may have heard about Trump’s personal aide, Natalie Harp, on social media. She is the woman who always carries the bag near Trump. The president’s critics have claimed, with no proof or evidence, that Harp’s job is to carry Trump’s adult diapers.

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What is clear is that Harp is a close aide to Trump. She was one of the people smuggled out of Turkey with Trump when the terrified president was scared into hiding in a food truck by Netanyahu.

Semafor reported that Trump gets furious over comments like those made by Ossoff:

But his comment that Trump “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie” landed as “a cheap shot,” one administration official said.

Harp’s proximity to Trump has unnerved some of his aides and sparked unfounded rumors about a relationship.

One person close to the White House said Harp “will ultimately jump the highest out of anyone in the room when he says jump,” adding that the aggressive pushback is partly because “the first lady doesn’t like these types of things” and Trump “does get furious” about personal topics.

A president who takes cheap shots at everyone around him can’t take it when the shoe is on the other foot.

Sen. Ossoff replied to Trump at an event on Tuesday.

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