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The two most important women in President Donald Trump’s life, First Lady Melania Trump and young staffer Natalie Harp, are reportedly feuding for the affections of the man in the White House.<\/p>\n

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“Melania Trump is locked in a secret power struggle with Donald Trump\u2019s 35-year-old assistant, according to the president\u2019s biographer,” reported The Daily Beast’s Erkki Forster on Monday.<\/p>\n

Forster added, “White House aide Natalie Harp has become seemingly inseparable from President Donald Trump, and her near-constant presence is made all the more striking by Melania\u2019s conspicuous absence. A Daily Beast analysis found that the 56-year-old first lady was seen in public just 47 times in 2025, after the president\u2019s Jan. 20 inauguration, and then just 38 days in the first seven months of 2026.”<\/p>\n

The journalist continued, “Melania is steering clear of her 80-year-old husband because she has little interest in sharing his side with Harp, according to Trump biographer Michael Wolff.” Journalist Michael Wolff, who specializes in covering the Trump’s also explained in a Monday post on Substack that Melania is less frequently by Trump’s side because she is jealous of Harp.<\/p>\n

\u201cMelania, whose appearances with her husband were carefully negotiated and choreographed, would not show up if Harp was around,\u201d Wolff wrote. \u201cSince Harp was always around, Melania never was\u2014appearing with her husband only in the last week of the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sometimes referring to disparagingly as Trump’s “diaper nurse” (by social media users) or his “human binkie” (by New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman), Harp recently entered the spotlight when Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) implied that the relationship between the two is improper.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar,\u201d Ossoff said in a recent speech. When former Trump adviser Bryan Lanza attacked Ossoff’s comments as “gutter politics,” he was called out for hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they’re both the gutter, but that’s gutter politics,\u201d Lanza said, conflating Ossoff’s comments with Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung’s denunciation of Ossoff as a “j – —. “That’s where we are today. That’s where we’ve been for a while. It’s where we’ve landed. And that’s where we’re going to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliot Williams, a former federal prosecutor, ridiculed Lanza\u2019s outrage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love you, man, I appreciate that,\u201d the laughing Williams told Lanza. \u201cI just \u2014 it’s a little rich, after nearly a decade of Donald Trump, for anyone in the United States to start pointing a finger at someone for rhetoric or language around, frankly, sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

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