{"id":862451,"date":"2026-08-18T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862451\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:26:16","slug":"white-house-attacks-cnn-reporter-over-question-on-trump-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862451\/","title":{"rendered":"White House attacks CNN reporter over question on Trump aide"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2013 The White House lashed out at a CNN reporter on Aug 17 after she asked a question about US President Donald Trump\u2019s relationship with an aide, in the latest in a series of attacks on female journalists.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome day, 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.<\/p>\n

The Republican leader later berated Holmes as \u201cvery disrespectful\u201d as she asked a question on North Korea.<\/p>\n

The event was to honour a teenage lifeguard who saved a child from swells, but the President opened the floor to questions on unrelated issues, as he regularly does.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a loud, boisterous person, you\u2019re fake news, be quiet,\u201d Trump said to Holmes.<\/p>\n

CNN said the attacks on Holmes were \u201cbeneath the office\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand firmly behind Kristen and reject these attacks in the strongest possible terms,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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 swop<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n

Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator and possible 2028 presidential contender, accused Trump in a campaign speech on Aug 16 of wanting to \u201cbuild his ballroom and travel with Natalie\u201d instead of doing his job.<\/p>\n

Trump dismissed Ossoff as a \u201cPee-wee Herman lookalike\u201d and defended his construction of a US$400 million (S$511 million) ballroom at the White House, but did not mention his aide.<\/p>\n

The White House criticised Holmes for asking about Harp during an event with the lifeguard.<\/p>\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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese scumbags are the lowest of the low.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"US<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump’s aide Natalie Harp has been dubbed the \u201chuman printer\u201d for supplying the US leader with printouts of information.<\/p>\n

PHOTO: AFP<\/p>\n

Harp, 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 printouts of information.<\/p>\n

In the book Regime Change, published in 2026, 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<\/p>\n

White House Communications director Steven Cheung had earlier slammed Ossoff for the Harp comments, calling him \u201cthe biggest cuck loser in politics\u201d \u2013 using internet slang for a submissive man. AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 The White House lashed out at a CNN reporter on Aug 17 after she asked a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-862451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}