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Natalie Harp
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Harp in 2025
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| Assumed office January 20, 2025 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Drew Rodriguez[a] |
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| Born | 1990 or 1991 (age 34–35) |
| Party | Republican |
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Natalie Harp (born 1990 or 1991) is an American political aide and former television presenter who has served as the executive assistant to the president since 2025.
Harp graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University and from Liberty University in 2015 with an MBA. In 2019, she rose to prominence on Fox News after praising president Donald Trump for signing into law a federal right-to-try law that she claimed allowed her to access experimental treatments, saving her life. Trump invited Harp to serve as a member of the advisory board for his 2020 presidential campaign and to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention. Harp worked for One America News Network, a far-right television channel, from 2020 to 2022. She later became an aide for Trump, exerting influence over his communications.
In January 2025, Trump named Harp as his executive assistant to the president. As his assistant, Harp had access to Trump's Truth Social account, and had been responsible for several controversial posts using his account.
Early life and education
Natalie Harp was born in 1990 or 1991 to a devoutly Christian family.[1] Harp's father is an estate agent who founded a consultancy for travel companies.[2] She graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2012 and from Liberty University in 2015 with an MBA.[3]
Career
Trump work and Republican National Committee speech (2019–2020)
By 2017, Harp had become vocally critical of the healthcare in the United States after she began suffering from health issues, particularly chronic pain and complications incurred by a medical error involving intravenous therapy for stage II bone cancer.[4] She praised president Donald Trump for signing into law a federal right-to-try law that she claimed allowed her to access experimental treatments, saving her life, on Fox News in 2019;[1] according to experts who spoke to The Washington Post, Harp's description of her treatment cast doubt on the veracity of her claim.[4] Trump invited Harp to speak at the Republican National Convention in August 2020.[1] Her speech compared Trump to George Bailey, the protagonist of It's a Wonderful Life (1946),[5] leading to criticism from the family of the character's actor, Jimmy Stewart.[6] By that month, she had become a member of the advisory board for Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.[7]
One America News Network and return to Trump (2020–2024)
In 2020, Harp began working as a presenter for One America News Network, a far-right television channel,[8] promoting false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.[9] In April 2022, she left the network amid an exodus after DirecTV refused to carry the channel.[10] Months later, she became an aide for Trump in his 2024 presidential campaign.[11] She often accompanied Trump when he played golf, bringing a printer and a laptop to show him articles;[11] Harp's use of a printer, which began from Trump's preference for paper news,[12] led to her being given the nickname of the "human printer".[1] She has additionally posted to Truth Social on Trump's behalf, including a post that announced he had received a target letter in the election obstruction case, surprising other aides.[11] According to The Bulwark, Harp had reposted a video of faux newspaper headlines in May 2024 hypothesizing a Trump victory that included the words "unified Reich".[9]
In his book All or Nothing (2025), the journalist Michael Wolff described Harp as a "gatekeeper".[3] According to the journalist Alex Isenstadt, in one instance, Trump's wife Melania discovered Harp in his private quarters—an area reserved for the Trump family—delivering papers to him at night.[13] Her proximity to Trump concerned other aides,[14] some of whom attributed Trump's relationship with Harp to her decision to remain with him after the January 6 Capitol attack.[1] Aides who spoke to The New York Times described Harp as a "conduit" and an "instant enabler of his impulses". Trump purportedly remarked that Harp was the only aide who cared about him after his arraignment in connection with the Georgia election racketeering prosecution, according to the Times. The paper additionally reported on a letter Harp had allegedly sent to Trump stating that he was "all that matters to [her]" in 2023.[1] Her access to Trump allowed individuals to send damaging clips of their rivals to her,[1] and she served as an avenue for the political activist Laura Loomer to influence Trump.[14] In August, it was reported that Trump had directed her to send angry text messages to the financier Miriam Adelson in his name the previous month,[15] nearly costing Adelson's support.[1] She had provided Trump with an image of him wielding a baseball bat near Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's head in advance of his indictment.[1]
Executive assistant to the president (2025–present)
In November 2024, after Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, The New York Times wrote that Harp was set to serve in his administration.[1] That month, she posted a private message sent to Trump by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that was intended to be private.[1] In January 2025, Harp became Trump's executive assistant to the president.[16] She continued to take dictation of social media posts for Trump.[17] Harp was responsible for posting a video that included a racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes and for posting an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus.[18]
Notes
- ^ As confidential aide to the president.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Haberman & Swan 2024b.
- ^ Pavia 2024.
- ^ a b Wolff 2025, p. 32.
- ^ a b Wan 2020.
- ^ Poniewozik 2020.
- ^ Sharf 2020.
- ^ Astor 2020.
- ^ Fellmann 2024.
- ^ a b Caputo 2024.
- ^ Daniels 2022.
- ^ a b c Helderman et al. 2022.
- ^ McGraw 2024.
- ^ Isenstadt 2025, p. 24.
- ^ a b Arnsdorf, Dawsey & Alemany 2023.
- ^ Haberman & Swan 2024a.
- ^ Lahut 2025.
- ^ Harwell, Morse & Davies 2025.
- ^ DeBarros & Linskey 2026.
Works cited
Books
- Isenstadt, Alex (2025). Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power. New York: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5387-6553-1.
- Wolff, Michael (2025). All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America. New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-5937-3538-1.
Articles
- Arnsdorf, Isaac; Dawsey, Josh; Alemany, Jacqueline (August 23, 2023). "Trump gravitates to fringe figures despite efforts to limit their influence". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 10, 2025.
- Astor, Maggie (August 24, 2020). "How to Watch the Republican National Convention". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- Caputo, Marc (May 22, 2024). "Meet Trump's 'Human Printer'". The Bulwark. Retrieved November 10, 2025.
- Daniels, Eugene (April 13, 2022). "Dems split over Biden gas price moves". Politico. Retrieved November 10, 2025.
- DeBarros, Anthony; Linskey, Annie (May 12, 2026). "The Late-Night Truth Social Storms That Offer a Window Into the President's Mind". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
- Fellmann, Fabian (May 24, 2024). "«Junge, schöne Frau» druckt Donald Trump das Internet aus" ["Young, beautiful woman" prints out the Internet for Donald Trump]. Tages-Anzeiger (in German). Retrieved November 10, 2025.
- Haberman, Maggie; Swan, Jonathan (August 10, 2024). "Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump's 2024 Campaign". The New York Times. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
- Haberman, Maggie; Swan, Jonathan (November 25, 2024). "Devoted Aide Who Keeps Good News Flowing Will Follow Trump to the White House". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- Harwell, Drew; Morse, Clare; Davies, Emily (June 3, 2025). "Tallying Trump's online posting frenzy: 2,262 'truths' in 132 days". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 10, 2025.
- Helderman, Rosalind; Dawsey, Josh; Parker, Ashley; Alemany, Jacqueline (December 18, 2022). "How Trump jettisoned restraints at Mar-a-Lago and prompted legal peril". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
- Lahut, Jake (June 2, 2025). "Trumpworld Is Getting Tired of Laura Loomer. They Hope the President Is Too". Wired. Retrieved November 10, 2025.
- McGraw, Meridith (April 24, 2024). "How Donald Trump Gets His News". Politico Magazine. Retrieved November 10, 2025.
- Pavia, Will (May 23, 2024). "Meet Trump's 'human printer' who claims he saved her from dying of cancer". The Times. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- Poniewozik, James (August 25, 2020). "R.N.C. Begins, Masks (and Sometimes Facts) Optional". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- Sharf, Zack (August 27, 2020). "Jimmy Stewart's Family Slams RNC Speech Comparing Trump to 'It's a Wonderful Life' Hero". IndieWire. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
- Wan, William (August 25, 2020). "Natalie Harp said Trump saved her life. Experts doubt that's true". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
External links
Media related to Natalie Harp at Wikimedia Commons
- Appearances on C-SPAN