Always by Trump's side – how Natalie Harp became a talking point

 

Mia Holmberg Karlsson/TT

 

Published 05.45

         

       Interior Minister Doug Burgum, presidential aide Natalie Harp and Donald Trump photographed on a         golf course in Washington DC in June. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP/TT

She attributes her victory over cancer to Donald Trump – and is so close to the president that she once rode in a tailgate to be by his side.

35-year-old aide Natalie Harp seems to be Trump's biggest fan and absolute favorite. But who is she?

Natalie Harp's phone number is worth more than President Trump's.

That's how a source The Wall Street Journal spoke to sums up 35-year-old Harp's rising power in the White House. Harp spends more time with Trump than any other aide, according to the newspaper – and if you want to raise something with the president, the shortest route is through Harp, it is said.

The 35-year-old has been a constant topic of conversation since it was revealed that she was one of the few who was allowed to board Trump's secret plane home from the NATO summit in Turkey, after a "credible threat that included Iran". Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were left behind on Air Force One, among others.

"Human scribe"

Natalie Harp's story with Donald Trump started in 2019, when she thanked the president in a Fox News interview for "saving her life". The deeply religious Harp said she had had bone cancer and that legislation that Trump wrote in 2018, which gave the green light for certain experimental treatments, gave her life back - a history that has, however, been questioned.
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But Trump liked the story and invited Harp to speak at a party convention. About two years later, she left the right-wing channel One America News Network and began working for Trump.

She now controls the flow of information both to and from the president, according to American media. She has been nicknamed the “human printer” because she carries a printer with her wherever she goes, ready to deliver selected news on paper to Trump, just as he wants it. It is also said that it is to Harp that the president dictates his many social media posts.

“Unhealthily obsessed”

The assistant has not taken a single day off since she joined the Trump administration, writes The New York Times. The 35-year-old has her desk in or just outside the Oval Office and travels wherever Trump travels, both within and outside the United States. She is so determined to be by the president's side that, according to CNN, she sat in a tailgate to attend his 2023 trial in New York.

Recently, Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff claimed that Trump "doesn't want to work" but only "travel with Natalie." The comment angered Trump and other Republicans, and a CNN reporter who dared to ask about the matter was called a "scumbag" whose children will be ashamed.

In an interview with CNN, Harp's brother Preston Harp said that his sister is "unhealthily obsessed" with the president.

- But I don't think it's a physical attraction.