Natalie Harp, 34, serves as executive assistant to President Trump and has become one of his most influential and controversial aides, earning the nickname “human printer” for her constant provision of printed news articles and social media posts to the president. Born in 1990 or 1991, Harp grew up in California, graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2012, and earned an MBA from Liberty University in 2015, according to New York Magazine.
Harp’s path to Trump’s inner circle began with her health crisis. In 2019, she published a LinkedIn post describing herself as “a Millennial woman fighting cancer,” crediting Trump’s Right to Try legislation with saving her life after she failed two chemotherapies and was denied clinical trials. She said she found an oncologist willing to try an FDA-approved immunotherapy drug for an unapproved use, stabilizing her condition. Two days later, she appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss her post, and Trump praised her on Twitter after the episode.
From 2020 to 2022, Harp worked as an anchor at One America News Network, where she further endeared herself to Trump by endorsing his election fraud claims, per the New York Times. She left the network in March 2022 to work for Trump directly. During the 2024 campaign, she had no official title but earned her “human printer” moniker by following Trump everywhere with a portable printer and battery pack, providing him with hard-copy printouts of articles and online content—much of it from conspiratorial far-right sources like Gateway Pundit, according to the Times.
Now formally titled “special assistant to the president and executive assistant to the president,” Harp earns $150,000 per year and is described as “ever-present” in the Oval Office, according to the book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” by New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. She sits with her laptop open, listening and fulfilling requests, from fetching merchandise to producing stories from right-wing websites. Her role has expanded to include significant influence over Trump’s Truth Social posts—she brings him stacks of printed draft posts, and then logs onto his account to post content he approves, the Wall Street Journal reported in May 2026.
The Letters and the Concerns
Harp has reportedly unnerved her colleagues by leaving devotional letters for Trump. According to the Times, in 2023 she wrote letters saying things like “You are all that matters to me” and “I don’t ever want to let you down,” thanking him for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.” In another letter, she expressed a desire to return to a time when “we’d talk about everything and nothing” and wrote, “I want to bring you joy.”
The Secret Service considered Harp a “potential danger to herself as well as the president,” according to Michael Wolff’s 2025 book “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America.” Other White House staffers have expressed alarm about her unfettered access to Trump’s social media accounts and her role as a funnel for conspiratorial information. The Wall Street Journal reported that Harp has frustrated some officials because she typically doesn’t share draft posts with the chief of staff’s office, communications aides, or national-security officials, saying she works only for Trump.
Trump, however, appears deeply attached to Harp. According to “Regime Change,” he calls her “Nathalie,” using the French pronunciation. When Trump snuck off Air Force One in a catering truck on July 8, 2026, to escape a potential Iranian threat, Harp went with him while more senior officials like Secretary of State Marco Rubio remained on the jet. Trump told his staff early in his second term that Harp is the “only one who loved him as much as his wife and kids,” reportedly saying, “All of you will go off and make money. She’ll never leave me.”
Sources
- New York Magazine — Natalie Harp’s background, education, health history, Right to Try law, OAN employment, and role as executive assistant; Trump’s attachment to her; the devotional letters; and the plane-swap incident.
- New York Times — Her work at OAN, her role during the 2024 campaign as “human printer,” concerns from other aides about her access to conspiratorial information, and the devotional letters from 2023.
- Wall Street Journal — Her role in crafting Trump’s Truth Social posts, her access to his social media accounts, and concerns from White House officials about her lack of coordination with other staff.
- Michael Wolff’s “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America” — The Secret Service’s assessment of Harp as a potential danger.
- “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan — Her role as ever-present in the Oval Office, Trump’s use of the French pronunciation of her name, and his statement about her being the only one who loves him as much as his wife and kids.
- Palm Beach Post — Coverage of the “Regime Change” book and its revelations about Harp’s relationship with Trump.
