WASHINGTON
\nThe White House on Monday lashed out at a CNN reporter after she asked a question about President Donald Trump\u2019s relationship with an aide, in the latest in a series of attacks on female journalists. During an event in the Oval Office, reporter Kristen Holmes asked Trump, 80, to respond to comments by a Democratic lawmaker about the president\u2019s executive assistant Natalie Harp, 35.
\n\u201cSomeday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question,\u201d the White House\u2019s \u201cRapid Response\u201d team said in an X post directed at Holmes and linking to a video of Trump\u2019s response. The Republican leader later berated Holmes as \u201cvery disrespectful\u201d as she asked a question on North Korea.
\nThe event was to honor a teenage lifeguard who saved a child from swells, but the president opened the floor to questions on unrelated issues, as he regularly does. \u201cYou\u2019re a loud, boisterous person, you\u2019re fake news, be quiet,\u201d Trump said to Holmes. CNN said the attacks on Holmes were \u201cbeneath the office.\u201d
\n\u201cWe stand firmly behind Kristen and reject these attacks in the strongest possible terms,\u201d it said in a statement. Natalie Harp has been the subject of recent Internet commentary after it emerged she was one of the few aides with Trump during a secret Air Force One swap in July.
\nJon Ossoff, a Democratic senator and possible 2028 presidential contender, accused Trump in a campaign speech on Sunday of wanting to \u201cbuild his ballroom and travel with Natalie\u201d instead of doing his job.
\nTrump dismissed Ossoff as a \u201cPee-wee Herman lookalike\u201d and defended his construction of a $400 million ballroom at the White House, but did not mention his aide. The White House criticized Holmes for asking about Harp during an event with the lifeguard.
\n\u201c@POTUS hosts a hero lifeguard in the Oval Office and she uses it as an opportunity to take a cheap shot about one of President Trump\u2019s staffers,\u201d the Rapid Response account said. \u201cThese scumbags are the lowest of the low.\u201d
\nHarp, a former television news personality, is frequently seen at Trump\u2019s side and has been dubbed the \u201chuman printer\u201d for supplying the president with print-outs of information. In the book \u201cRegime Change\u201d published this year, two New York Times reporters wrote that Harp\u2019s loyalty extended to writing him \u201cadoring letters\u201d including one that read: \u201cYou are all that matters to me.\u201d
\nWhite House Communications Director Steven Cheung had earlier slammed Ossoff for the Harp comments, calling him \u201cthe biggest cuck loser in politics\u201d \u2014 using Internet slang for a submissive man. \u2014 DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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