Is This the Most Devoted Woman by Trump’s Side?
In 2018, we were horrified and delighted to learn that Trump was receiving printouts of his Twitter mentions and writing out his jumbled responses in Sharpie for a 24-year-old social-media manager to post. This week, we got some new insight into how the president-elect’s deranged social-media activity has evolved. According to the New York Times, Natalie Harp — a 33-year-old aide who has been nicknamed his “human printer” by her colleagues — reportedly feeds him an unfiltered stream of conspiracy theories and posts his Truth Social dictations without a second thought.
Harp and Trump first crossed paths in 2019 when she appeared on Fox News to thank him for saving her life by signing the right-to-try law, which she claims gave her access to experimental treatments for bone cancer. (It’s unclear what those treatments were, and some experts claimed Harp had been given treatments that were allowed long before Trump’s right-to-try law.) After that, she spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention. She spent the next two years touting conspiracy theories about the election being stolen as an anchor on the far-right cable-news network One America News before joining his staff in 2022, and she has apparently been a fixture by his side ever since.
According to the Times, which spoke with some half-a-dozen anonymous insiders, Harp’s main responsibility is passing Trump unvetted, overwhelmingly flattering news, much of it from Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for disseminating conspiracy theories and hoaxes. During his campaign, she would apparently give him hard copies of these articles by following him around with a portable printer and battery pack — hence her humbling nickname. Also seemingly part of Harp’s unofficial job description: enabling Trump’s most impulsive social-media habits by taking dictation for his Truth Social tirades. She is said to have helped him pull the trigger on angry texts to donors, chaotic retweets, and other classically Trumpian decisions that have sent his lawyers into panic mode.
But Harp’s greatest strength in Trumpworld appears to be an alarming level of devotion to her boss. During one of Trump’s golf outings, she apparently once jogged behind his cart, keeping him up-to-date with positive news and social-media posts. In return, he apparently calls her “sweetie” and treats her like a daughter (ew, especially given the way Trump talks about his actual daughters). Over the years, their relationship has only gotten weirder — last year, the Times claims she sent Trump a series of letters in which she called him her “Guardian and Protector in this Life” and wrote “You are all that matters to me” and “I don’t ever want to let you down.”
Trump’s transition team declined to make Harp available to the Times for an interview, of course. Anonymous sources close to him anticipate that, assuming she follows him to the White House, she will continue to deliver a “largely unsupervised flow of information” while enabling his most chaotic impulses. Sounds like a very stable workplace scenario that is sure to result in good, clearheaded solutions for all. I hope some Lifetime screenwriters are watching!
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