{"id":596922,"date":"2026-08-18T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596922\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:20:09","slug":"white-house-attacks-cnn-reporter-over-trump-aide-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596922\/","title":{"rendered":"White House attacks CNN reporter over Trump aide question"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

During an event in the Oval Office yesterday, reporter Kristen Holmes asked Mr Trump to respond to comments by a Democratic politician about the president’s executive assistant Natalie Harp.<\/p>\n

“Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question,” the White House’s “Rapid Response” team said in an X post directed at Ms Holmes and linking to a video of Mr Trump’s response.<\/p>\n

The Republican leader later berated Ms Holmes as “very disrespectful” 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

.@KristenhCNN<\/a>: Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive. It’s quite troubling. https:\/\/t.co\/EWgPy7mXQP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

“You’re a loud, boisterous person, you’re fake news, be quiet,” Mr Trump said to Ms Holmes.<\/p>\n

CNN said the attacks on Ms Holmes were “beneath the office.”<\/p>\n

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

Ms Harp, 35, has been the subject of recent internet commentary after it emerged she was one of the few aides with Mr Trump during a secret Air Force One swap in July.<\/p>\n

Watch: ‘Quiet! Quiet! Quiet!’ -Trump shuts down reporter in Oval Office<\/p>\n

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Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator and possible 2028 presidential contender, accused Mr Trump in a campaign speech on Sunday of wanting to “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie” instead of doing his job.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump dismissed Mr Ossoff as a “Pee-wee Herman lookalike” and defended his construction of a $400 million ballroom at the White House, but did not mention his aide.<\/p>\n

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

“@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’s staffers,” the Rapid Response account said.<\/p>\n

“These scumbags are the lowest of the low.”<\/p>\n

\"Donald
\nNatalie Harp pictured with Donald Trump as they arrived at the White House on Marine One on 16 August<\/p>\n

Ms Harp, a former television news personality, is frequently seen at Mr Trump’s side and has been dubbed the “human printer” for supplying the president with print-outs of information.<\/p>\n

In the book ‘Regime Change’ published this year, two New York Times reporters wrote that Ms Harp’s loyalty extended to writing him “adoring letters” including one that read: “You are all that matters to me.”<\/p>\n

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung had earlier slammed Mr Ossoff for the Harp comments, calling him “the biggest cuck loser in politics” – using internet slang for a submissive man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House has lashed out at a CNN reporter after she asked a question about President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-596922","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}