White House Appears To Have Cropped Out Natalie Harp From Trump And Melania Video

Donald Trump’s controversial aide, Natalie Harp, and the first lady, Melania Trump, are rarely in the same room at the same time. When they were together on Sunday, the White House tried to downplay any evidence of it.

According to the Daily Beast, while both women were present on Sunday, “on the White House’s social media, the president’s blonde cheerleader was almost nowhere to be found.”

“Though she was visible in numerous photographs and videos taken at the Washington, D.C. event on Sunday, she didn’t make it into the official White House or First Lady-branded social content,” the Beast said of the Trump aide.

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“In a jerkily edited video set to frenzied strings and posted by the White House, the first lady, and the official Freedom 250 GP Instagram, the footage cycles through moments from the race, closely cropping the president and first lady while largely excluding everyone else.”

The Beast also noted that one video of Trump waving the flag to start the race was “cropped so tightly on the president that it appears almost without context.”

This was also the case with a video posted to X of Trump:

When someone says Trust in Trump pic.twitter.com/lqQE8jbY8O

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 23, 2026

The Beast noted, however, that Harp appeared in the background of photographs taken at that moment.

Why was she cropped?

According to the report, “Harp—who has attracted media attention over the past week after Democratic Sen. Jon Ossof made a very public remark about her relationship with the president—is reportedly on shaky ground with Melania, who has been largely absent from the White House of late,” the Beast report said. “Sunday’s visuals only fueled reports that the first couple has butted heads over Harp’s apparent obsession with Trump, with Melania at one point seeming to depart the suite as Harp entered it.”

Harp, according to one report earlier this week, is such a staunch Trump loyalist that she posted 150 tweets in his favor throughout the day on January 6, 2021.

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