Ossoff Rips Trump's 'Flying Palace' Trips With Aide

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff accused President Donald Trump of ducking the job of president — golfing, trading stocks and traveling with his executive assistant Natalie Harp — while US sailors fight his war with Iran.

The Democrat made the attack in a speech in Atlanta on Sunday.

He tied it to the extended Middle East deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and to the recently revealed decoy Air Force One operation.

What Ossoff Said

"While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings," Ossoff said. "He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn't want to do his job."

He then went after Trump's travel and his White House ballroom project: "He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar." The line drew a roar of applause, according to The Independent.

Ossoff said Trump was "treating citizens as fools and those who serve as pawns."

Who Natalie Harp Is

Harp, 35, is an executive assistant to the president and is often at his side. She has picked up the nickname "human printer" because she supplies Trump with printouts of news stories and social media posts.

In 2019 she delivered a speech crediting Trump with saving her life after he signed the Right to Try Act. Harp said she had battled stage 2 bone cancer and that experimental medication helped her recover, accusing the "medical establishment" of simply prescribing her opioids and the "political establishment" of telling her how to die.

"But then an outsider, my Good Samaritan, President Donald J. Trump, he saw me there, and he didn't walk by; he stopped," she said.

Her estranged brother, Preston Harp, has publicly described his sister's relationship with the president as "very unhealthy," claiming she is seeking a father figure in Trump.