A new book is reigniting rumors and questions regarding President Donald Trump’s relationship with one of his staffers.
New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan released “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” last week, chronicling Trump’s second term.
It features over a thousand interviews with hundreds of people from the spring of 2023 through the spring of this year. In the book, the authors revisit Trump’s relationship with executive assistant Natalie Harp and how much he relies on Harp.
The discourse over their relationship has heightened again across social media following Harp’s estranged brother’s comment to the Daily Mail, where he called her relationship with Trump “unhealthy.”
Who is Natalie Harp? What is Natalie Harp’s job?
Natalie Harp, 34, is the executive assistant to Trump, 80, and a former television presenter for the One American Network. Her nickname from the Trump administration is the “human printer” because she followed Trump around with a portable printer and a battery pack to provide him with information in printouts.
According to Vanity Fair, Harp is a 2012 Point Loma Nazarene University graduate and a 2015 Liberty University MBA who recovered from bone cancer because of Trump’s “Right to Try” law. She has spoken at numerous rallies during Trump’s 2024 reelection campaign.
Harp is also allegedly behind some of Trump’s most controversial social media posts, having access to and posting from his Truth Social account. Some of the controversies include the photo depicting Trump as Jesus and the AI-generated video which featured the Obamas as racist, ape-like figures.
Before her official job as executive assistant, she also worked as an assistant to Trump at the Save America Super PAC and as a research advisor and assistant to Trump at the Donald J. Trump for President 2024 Super PAC.
How long has Natalie Harp worked with Trump?
According to First Post, Harp has been working for Trump since around 2022.
Why are people looking into Natalie Harp’s relationship with Trump?
The rumors behind Harp and Trump’s relationship first came to light in the 2025 book “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America” by Michael Wolff. He reported that in the midst of her duties, Harp would write “eyebrow-raising” personal notes to the president.
“In this pile of papers, she also frequently includes personal notes to him, and notes that, you know, [say] ‘You’re the alpha and the omega,’ ‘The be all and end all,’ ‘What would I be without you?'” Wolff said.
Vanity Fair reported in 2025 that sources from the Trump administration expressed “bewilderment and concern” at Harp’s letters. They said they had tried to create distance between the president and Harp, but it did not last.
Now, the latest biography of Trump doubles down on Harp’s letters to Trump and how uncomfortable it made other staff members. They wrote that Trump calls her “Nathalie,” adopting a French pronunciation, and would say that she was the “only one who loved him as much as his wife and kids.”
“Harp was generally on a chair off to the side, her laptop open, head cocked, listening but never contributing unless ordered to by Trump,” Haberman and Swan wrote. “She fulfilled, in a flash, any request, whether a ‘Trump 2028’ that 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.”
They also recount a letter in which Harp allegedly writes to Trump, “You are all that matters to me.”
Has Trump or the White House commented on rumors surrounding Harp?
Sort of.
In a statement to People Magazine following the book’s release last week, White House spokesperson Kush Desai said that “no President has used social media as effectively as President Trump, who has formed a direct line of communication to the American people. The Fake News Media hates being cut out, but the American people appreciate directly hearing from their president, Donald J. Trump.”
Continuing about Harp, he said that “Natalie Harp is a beloved White House Official, and the Fake News Media will never understand what it’s like to be as trusted and admired as her.”
However, neither Trump nor Harp has commented on the negative perception of their relationship.
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