JD Vance has pulled back the curtain on Donald Trump’s Truth Social habits, revealing the president rarely drafts his own posts despite their personal, often chaotic tone.
The vice president, 40, made the disclosure during a sit-down on the Bryce Crawford Podcast, where he described a process in which aides present Trump with content and the president decides what gets published. Vance insisted Trump is “way too busy” to spend his days crafting the late-night and early-morning rants that have become a signature of his political brand.
“Did Donald Trump mean to post a meme of himself as God?” Vance asked rhetorically during the interview. “No, because I saw it happen in real time.”
Vance laid out the mechanics in detail. “What happens is people will bring him stuff and say ‘Hey, look isn’t this funny?’ and then sometimes he’ll like chuckle at it, and sometimes if he really thinks it’s funny he’ll have somebody post it,” he explained. “And that’s exactly what happened here, is somebody brought him something, he saw it he said ‘Oh, that’s funny,’ he put it on his Truth.”
The Ohio senator was specifically addressing an April incident that drew sharp backlash from some religious conservatives: an AI-generated image Trump shared depicting himself as Jesus, complete with a white robe and red sash, appearing to heal a bedridden patient with glowing orbs emanating from his hand. The post had sparked particular anger among evangelicals who viewed it as blasphemous self-aggrandizement.
Crawford, a Christian evangelist, pressed Vance directly on the controversy during their podcast conversation. “I’m a Christian, I saw the photo, it made me upset,” he told the vice president. “I’m not gonna lie, it made me upset. My personal opinion, I don’t how he thought he was a doctor in the photo I mean he had a white robe with a red sash on it.”
Vance pushed back gently, blending empathy with defense of his boss. “I hear you and I know that the president mean any offense, obviously he loves Christians and politically I think has done a lot of good for religious liberty and certainly didn’t mean anything by it,” he responded. The vice president added that Trump “did not meant to like mock of mimic God. That’s just not who he is.”
While Vance stopped short of naming Trump’s social media team, the source article points to Natalie Harp, 35, a White House aide who has reportedly assisted with drafting Trump’s infamous Truth Social posts during late-night hours. Harp has drawn recent attention for her intense devotion to the president, with the outlet obtaining a letter in which she apologized for being “an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland” and acknowledged she had been “forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time.”
The same report noted Harp has written notes to Trump including the line “You are all that matters to me.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the aide to the outlet, calling Harp “one of the most loyal and hardest-working aides on President Trump’s team.”
The revelation that Trump’s raw, seemingly spontaneous posts are filtered through staffers contradicts the persona of an unmediated leader speaking directly to supporters. Trump’s Truth Social feed has long been characterized by erratic capitalization, grammatical irregularities, and a stream-of-consciousness quality that suggested personal authorship at odd hours.
Vance’s account reframes that authenticity as performance, with the president functioning more as curator than creator.