Natalie Harp
American political aide (born 1990/1991)
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Natalie J. Harp (born 1991)[1] is an American political aide and former television presenter who serves as the executive assistant to the president since 2025.
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Natalie Harp | |
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Harp in 2025 | |
| Executive Assistant to the President | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Drew Rodriguez[a] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1991 (age 34–35) |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | |
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, which she credits with saving her life (though experts dispute the effect of this legislation on her particular course of treatment).[2][3] 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 has access to Trump's Truth Social account, and has reportedly been responsible for several controversial posts using his account. Authors and New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan portray her as a loyal aide who is usually at the president's side. "The ever-present Natalie Harp was generally on a chair off to the side, her laptop open, head cocked, listening but never contributing unless ordered by Trump. She fulfilled, in a flash, any request, whether a 'Trump 2028' hat needed to be fetched from the merchandise room, a quick Google search, or producing the latest story from right-wing websites like Breitbart or Gateway Pundit."[4]
Early life and education
Natalie Harp was born in 1990 or 1991 to a devoutly Christian family.[5] Harp's father, Robert, who died in 2020, was an entrepreneur and a professor at Biola University; he founded GlobalHotelNetwork.com in 2000.[6] []
Harp graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2012 and from Liberty University in 2015 with an MBA.[7]
Career
Trump work and Republican National Committee speech (2019–2020)
By 2017, Harp had become vocally critical of 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.[8] 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;[5] according to experts who spoke to The Washington Post, Harp's description of her treatment cast doubt on the veracity of her claim.[8]
Trump invited Harp to speak at the Republican National Convention in August 2020.[5] Her speech compared Trump to George Bailey, the protagonist of It's a Wonderful Life (1946),[9] leading to criticism from the family of the character's actor, Jimmy Stewart.[10] By August, she had become a member of the advisory board for Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.[11]
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,[12] promoting false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.[13] In April 2022, she left the network amid an exodus after DirecTV refused to carry the channel.[14]
Months later, she became an aide for Trump in his 2024 presidential campaign.[15] She often accompanied Trump when he played golf, bringing a printer and a laptop to show him articles;[15] Harp's use of a printer, which began from Trump's preference for paper news,[16] led to her being given the nickname of the "human printer".[5]
Harp also 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.[15] 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".[13]
In his book All or Nothing (2025), the journalist Michael Wolff described Harp as a "gatekeeper".[7] 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.[17]
Harp's proximity to Trump concerned other aides,[18] some of whom attributed Trump's relationship with Harp to her decision to remain with him after the January 6 Capitol attack.[5] 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.[5]
Harp's access to Trump has resulted in individuals sending damaging clips of their rivals to her,[5] and she served as an avenue for the political activist Laura Loomer to influence Trump.[18] 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,[19] nearly costing Adelson's support.[5] She had provided Trump with an image of Trump wielding a baseball bat near Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's head in advance of his indictment.[5]
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.[5] That month, she posted a private message sent to Trump by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that was intended to be private.[5]
In January 2025, Harp became the executive assistant to the president.[20] She continued to take dictation of social media posts for Trump.[21] With Trump's approval, 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.[22]
In Regime Change, a 2026 book about Trump's second presidency, authors Haberman and Swan described her prominent role:
Harp’s devotion to the President had remained undimmed through the hectic early months of the second term.Trump had taken to telling his staff that Natalie (or “Nathalie,” as he would call her, . . .) was the only one who loved him as much as his wife and kids. "All of you will go off and make money," he would say. "She'll never leave me."[4]
Notes
- As confidential aide to the president
