Jon Ossoff smeared Trump aide Natalie Harp at a campaign rally last Sunday.
Now Rosie O'Donnell just did the same thing on ABC.
And Rosie O’Donnell spent her Wednesday night opening taking a shot at a 35-year-old White House aide who survived cancer.
What O'Donnell Actually Said
Rosie O'Donnell was barely 30 seconds into her monologue when she got there.
"You got to realize it's time to hang up your wig and let Natalie tuck you in," she told an invisible Trump watching at home. "Time to go nighty night."
The studio audience loved it.
What she didn't mention – what nobody on that stage ever mentions – is that Natalie Harp is a cancer survivor who first appeared on Fox News in 2019 because Trump's Right to Try legislation gave her access to experimental treatments that saved her life.
She isn't famous for being close to the president.
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She's famous for being alive.
Democrats have decided she's fair game anyway.
Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff started it Sunday in Atlanta, insinuating Trump "wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar."
Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna called it a "sexist arrogant jerk" move spreading a "rude, disgusting rumour."
Megyn Kelly said it was a "despicable attack" – one that essentially accused a federal employee of sleeping with her boss.
And now Rosie O'Donnell piled on from the ABC desk.
The Pattern Here Is Not Subtle
This is what the Left does when they can't beat Trump on policy.
They can't run against a booming economy.
They can't run against the Iran deal.
They can't run against border enforcement.
So they attack the people around him – specifically the women around him – and dress it up as late-night comedy.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it plainly: Harp is "one of the most loyal and hardest-working aides on President Trump's team."
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Senator John Barrasso called her "an extra set of eyes and ears for President Trump" who is "critical" to ensuring Congress is a real partner for the administration.
What does the Left call her?
A punchline.
This Is What the Democrat Base Looks Like in 2026
Rosie O'Donnell fled to Ireland in 2025 because she "read Project 2025 and said, 'Got to get myself out of here.'"
She came back last month.
Now she's on ABC four nights a week, doing the bidding of a party so desperate for political oxygen that a Georgia senator's smear of a presidential aide became their biggest applause line in months.
Jimmy Kimmel arranged this deliberately – his words, a "special treat for our commander in chief."
ABC greenlit it.
Natalie Harp survived cancer.
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She survived Ossoff's smear in Atlanta.
She'll survive Rosie O'Donnell, too.
The Left spent a week targeting a woman whose biggest crime was surviving a disease and serving her president loyally.
That's not a political strategy.
That's what losing looks like.
Sources:
- Jerome Hudson, "Rosie O'Donnell Joins Crude Natalie Harp Mania in Latest Trump-Obsessed 'Kimmel Live!' Monologue," Breitbart, August 20, 2026.
- "Jon Ossoff's Controversial Trump Jab Sparks Media Feeding Frenzy Over White House Aide Natalie Harp," Fox News, August 20, 2026.
- "Meet Natalie Harp, Trump's 'Valuable Resource' Who Lawmakers Say Is 'Critical' to His Operation," Fox News Digital, January 2025.
- "Sen. Jon Ossoff Targets Trump, Natalie Harp as Battle Turns Nasty," The Hill, August 19, 2026.
- "What to Know About Trump's Aide Natalie Harp," Time, August 19, 2026.