Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi declared a "miracle" this week, arguing that a whole party of bitter, pro-male malcontents has suddenly discovered sexism and chauvinism in the wake of recent attacks on Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump's embattled "human binkie" and "diaper nurse."

"Jon Ossoff is quite the miracle worker," said Mahdawi, a weekly columnist and creator of the satirical website Rent-a-Minority. "Perhaps the Democratic senator can't turn water into wine, but he has managed to turn whining conservatives into impassioned feminists."

Harp, a former One America News Network host who joined Trump's White House staff and became known for trailing the president with a portable printer stocked with news clippings, was thrust into the spotlight when it was reported that the 35-year-old was one of a handful of people who left with Trump on a different plane, exiting via a catering truck, while reporters and other staffers were kept on a "bait plane" intended to draw Iranian fire (Alternet). Intrigue then intensified when it was acknowledged that Melania Trump had vanished from public view for weeks during the same period. Mahdawi noted that the First Lady "magically reappeared on Thursday," a few days after the Georgia senator — a first-term Democrat whose seat is on the ballot this November — mocked Harp's fawning relationship with the president.

"It's hilarious to watch the right discover misogyny and decry the remarks as sexist," Mahdawi said. "Suddenly, everyone from Fox News to prominent conservatives are very worried about a professional woman not being taken seriously."

Among those defending Harp was former House speaker Newt Gingrich, described by Alternet as a philanderer who took a young staffer as his third wife after an affair. Writing on X, he said Harp's critics owe her an apology: "If a conservative Republican had attacked a liberal Democrat working professional woman [like] … Natalie Harp there would be cries to kick them off the ticket and reject this kind of misogynistic language diminishing and smearing someone who is simply doing their job."

Scott Jennings, a CNN political commentator and veteran Republican strategist, called the comments "so vile against a young Republican woman working in politics that every woman in this country, no matter your ideology, ought to listen carefully and never forget it."

"Meghan McCain also clutched her pearls" at the remarks, Mahdawi said of the daughter of the late Senator John McCain and former co-host of ABC's "The View." "The egregious sexist attacks on Natalie Harp are absolutely insane – and they're coming from prestigious journalists," McCain posted on X. "What is wrong with everyone?! Every president has close aides and sometimes they are females. Like what year is this?!"

Mahdawi, however, pointed to Harp's affectionate messages to the president — including "You are all that matters to me" and "I want to bring you joy, to feel like we can get through a day without ever having to talk 'work'" — calling them "deeply weird things to say to your boss."

Harp has described herself as a cancer survivor who believes Trump saved her life by signing the federal right-to-try law in 2018, which she says gave her access to experimental bone cancer treatment — a story she recounted publicly, including at the 2020 Republican National Convention. While that may make her devotion to the president more understandable, Mahdawi argued, it "does not make her conduct any more professional."

"So spare me all the lectures from the right about sexism, please," Mahdawi said. "If you're worried about how women in politics are treated, you should probably focus your attention on the adjudicated sexual abuser who is president." The barb was a reference to the May 2023 civil verdict in which a federal jury in Manhattan found Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, awarding her $5 million, with a second jury adding $83.3 million in defamation damages in 2024. Trump has denied the allegations.

She cited CNN White House correspondent Kristen Holmes, Trump's latest "object of ire," who asked the president about his relationship with Harp and was branded a "loud boisterous person" before being instructed to be "quiet."

"Meanwhile, the White House's social media account posted about Holmes multiple times," Mahdawi said. "In one post they wrote: 'Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive.'"