Alpha Failure Mode

An explanation for Trump's increasingly deranged social media posts

Donald Trump is widely perceived to be spiraling out of control on Truth Social late at night, but he isn't doing it alone. He’s being indulged by a much younger female aide more than willing to stay by his side all night leading to long-standing rumors of an affair.

According to a new Wall Street Journal report, executive assistant Natalie Harp is the driving force behind many of Trump’s most unhinged and offensive late-night Truth Social rampages.

The 34-year-old former One America News host brings the 79-year-old president stacks of printed posts (often conspiracy theories, racist content, and AI slop), gets his approval, then logs into his account and blasts them out while he should be sleeping.

Harp has unprecedented access to Trump. Senators reportedly text her directly when they can’t reach the president. But her extreme devotion has sparked years of affair rumors inside MAGA circles.

Reports reveal she once went so far as living in the ladies’ locker room at his Bedminster golf club for more than a month just to stay close to him after she was shut out from normal accommodations. Harp has reportedly written gushing letters to Trump saying things like “You are all that matters to me” and that she only wants to bring him “joy.”

While Trump’s inner circle is reportedly fed up with the chaos she helps create, Harp answers to no one except Trump himself. She bypasses the chief of staff and communications team, feeding the president’s worst impulses at all hours of the night.

Since taking office, Trump has posted a staggering 8,800 times, with frequent all-night posting binges that suggest he’s barely sleeping.

So here we have an ill-rested, elderly president obsessively rage-posting into the early morning hours, allegedly enabled and coddled by a young, clearly smitten aide who is frequently in his private quarters at all hours, a privilege afforded no other staff member.

Granted, we always have to take it with a grain of salt when it’s coming from the similarly deranged Democrats, but in general, it checks out with the observable evidence. The blonde has a definite case of crazyface; that expression fairly shouts “run if you value your life” at you.

And Alphas are uniquely vulnerable to the combination of youth, attractiveness, and flattery. As those who are aging know, we always see ourselves more as the person that we used to be rather than the person that we are. So the Alpha, who has been used to people being impressed by him and catering to him his entire life, tends to not have a very refined ability to see through those who are flattering him and using him for their own purposes, whatever they might be.

Hence the expression: there is no fool like an old fool.