Natalie Harp | |
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.jpg) Harp in 2025 | |
| Executive Assistant to the President | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Drew Rodriguez[a] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Natalie Joy Harp San Diego County,California, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | |
Natalie Joy Harp is an American political aide and former television presenter who has served asexecutive assistant to the president since 2025.
Harp graduated fromPoint Loma Nazarene University and fromLiberty University in 2015 with anMBA. In 2019, she rose to prominence onFox News after praising presidentDonald Trump for signing into law a federalright-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 his2020 presidential campaign and to speak at the2020 Republican National Convention. Harp began working forOne America News Network, a far-right television channel, as a presenter in 2020, but left in April 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.
Natalie Joy Harp was born to a devoutlyChristian family.[1] Harp's father is an estate agent who founded a consultancy for travel companies.[2] She graduated fromPoint Loma Nazarene University in 2012 and fromLiberty University in 2015 with anMBA.[3]
By 2017, Harp had become vocally critical of thehealthcare in the United States after she began suffering from health issues, particularly chronic pain and complications incurred by a medical error involvingintravenous therapy for stage IIbone cancer.[4] She praised presidentDonald Trump for signing into law a federalright-to-try law that she claimed allowed her to access experimental treatments, saving her life, onFox News in 2019;[1] according to experts who spoke toThe Washington Post, Harp's description of her treatment casts doubt on the veracity of her claim.[4] Trump invited Harp to speak at theRepublican National Convention in August 2020[1] in which she gave a speech comparing Trump toGeorge Bailey, the protagonist ofIt'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's2020 presidential campaign.[7]
Harp began working forOne America News Network, a far-right television channel, as a presenter in 2020,[8] promotingfalse claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.[9] In April 2022, she left the network amid an exodus afterDirecTV refused to carry the channel.[10] Months later, she became an aide for Trump in his2024 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 toTruth Social on Trump's behalf, including a post that announced he had received a target letter in theelection obstruction case, surprising other aides.[11] According toThe 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 bookAll or Nothing (2025), the journalistMichael Wolff described Harp as a "gatekeeper".[3] According to the journalist Alex Isenstadt, in one instance, Trump's wifeMelania discovered Harp in his private quarters—an area reserved for theTrump 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 theJanuary 6 Capitol attack.[1] Aides who spoke toThe 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 theGeorgia election racketeering prosecution, according to theTimes. 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 activistLaura Loomer to influence Trump.[14] In August, reported that Trump had directed her to send angry text messages to the financierMiriam 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 attorneyAlvin Bragg's head in advance ofhis indictment.[1]
In November 2024, after Trump's victory in the2024 presidential election,The New York Times wrote that Harp was set to serve inhis administration.[1] That month, she posted a private message sent to Trump by Ukrainian presidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy that was intended to be private.[1] In January 2025, Harp became Trump's executive assistant to the president.[16] She continued to dictate social media posts for Trump.[17]