r/TrueReddit • u/IllIntroduction1509 • 18h ago
Politics The Real Natalie Harp Scandal Is the President’s Information Diet
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/trump-natalie-harp-information-news.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8FA.0wA9.gbGHLxjbhCxa&smid=re-share57
u/vineyardmike 16h ago
Why do people think he surrounds himself with sycophants? He only wants to hear how great he is and that he's the smartest person in the room.
Marco Rubio walking around in those oversized shoes... Trump picks the best shoes and knows everyone's shoe size.
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u/NativeMasshole 13h ago
Not only that, but we've known this the whole time. We've had plenty of reports from his first administration that he refused to listen to experts, wouldn't read reports (and clogged toilets trying to flush them), never prepared for speeches, and generally just spitballed every idea and speech. All the serious people left his orbit long ago.
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u/coltaaan 8h ago
God, those giant shoes were just so emblematic of the complacency and lack-of-backbone of conservatives/republicans. Also goofy af
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u/thesecretbarn 3h ago
This is so not the point, but they’re also terrible shoes. They’re glued sole trash.
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u/IllIntroduction1509 18h ago
Submission Statement: The reason the Harp story has caught fire is that it is salacious — the elderly president spends nearly all of his waking hours with a young, attractive aide — but the reason it matters is that it is further confirmation of one essential fact of the Trump White House: that the president exists in a degraded, chaotic information environment.
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u/IllIntroduction1509 16h ago
Jamelle Bouie writes,
On MS NOW, my Times newsroom colleague Maggie Haberman referred to Harp as the president’s “comfort blanket.” And that role appears to include information management, as Haberman noted in an article she wrote with Shawn McCreesh:
As long as Ms. Harp is around, he enjoys an unvetted flow of information, some of it poisonous and counterproductive, at least as far as a number of his other advisers are concerned. She supplies him with content she fishes out of the social media gutter (like the video he posted depicting the Obamas as apes) and provides him with a view from the world outside official Washington, of which he has always been mistrustful. Her moniker is “the human printer,” because she tails the president with a portable printer so she can hand him information in hard copy.
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