ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

White House Finally Addresses Viral Image of Trump and Natalie Harp

The king of AI slop was apparently in a clinch with the Human Printer.

The White House has broken its silence about images that appear to show President Donald Trump and Natalie Harp being intimate on a golf course.

Two versions of what appeared to be the same image made the rounds on social media earlier this week for supposedly showing Trump, 80, kissing a blonde woman assumed to be his “human printer,” Harp, 35.

“This is clearly a fake photo,” a White House official told the Daily Beast.

Ironically, Trump himself has been churning out AI-generated images on his Truth Social platform at an extraordinary rate, without the White House issuing statements on those posts.

The clear version of the image has telltale signs of AI—like the woman’s right hand having six fingers. An analysis by the fact-checking website Snopes also found a watermark indicating it was “generated with OpenAI tools.”

The blurry version of the photo lacked the same watermark and was too low-resolution to show any typical AI anomalies, Snopes reported, but is fake nonetheless. A Daily Beast review of wire services could not find photos of Harp and Trump both wearing white on a golf course.

A reverse image search found that it was first used as the thumbnail for a YouTube video by political commentator Keith Edwards, who disavowed any responsibility for the photo.

“My thumbnail team found the image online,” he told Snopes. “We did not create or alter the underlying image, but we also did not independently verify its original source or that the woman pictured is Natalie Harp. Given that only the back of her head is visible, I don’t think her identity can be confirmed from this image alone.”

Harp first caught Trump’s attention in 2019, when she appeared on Fox News and credited legislation he signed with helping her recover from bone cancer. The following year, she spoke at the Republican National Convention and joined Trump’s campaign.

Harp was thrust into the spotlight after Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff publicly questioned Trump’s closeness with her, declaring at a rally that Trump would much rather “travel with Natalie” and build a White House ballroom than work.

“He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff said at a rally. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.”

In response, Trump hit back at the Georgia senator during an Oval Office meeting, where he quipped: “You mean Pee-wee Herman? (He’s a) Pee-wee Herman look-alike.”

Harp began working for Trump in 2022 after leaving her role as anchor and host at the right-wing news network One America News. Harp got the moniker “human printer” by following Trump around, fulfilling his every request, including fetching merchandise, performing Google searches, printing stories from right-wing websites, and suggesting possible Truth Social posts. She earns a taxpayer-funded salary of $150,000 a year.

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WITH ALL MY HEART

Natalie Harp’s Intimate Letters to Trump Revealed in Full

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Last month, the Daily Beast published in full two letters Harp wrote for Trump in which she lavished praise on him as her “Guardian and Protector.”

“I haven’t been myself, dwelling on the Past, and the pain of losing my Dad, and I started letting the remarks of people who haven’t bothered me before, get to me—not because I care what others think, but because I see myself being lowered in your eyes and good opinion,” she wrote. “That is the fear you see, because I never want to bring you anything but joy.”

“I want things to always be right between us,” she added. “I never want to bring you anything but joy. I’m sorry I lost my focus. You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

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