Private letters from Donald Trump’s longtime personal aide Natalie Harp have come back into focus, including one in which she says she went without food while working for him, as questions grow again around the intensity of their professional relationship.
Harp, 35, has spent years among Trump’s most trusted staff members and has earned the nickname “human printer” because she is known for carrying stacks of printed news articles for him to review. But her constant proximity to the president and visible dedication have reportedly caused unease among some senior Trump advisers and members of the Secret Service.
One episode that drew attention unfolded during Trump’s golf visit to Scotland in May 2023, when Harp reportedly ran behind his golf cart after no additional carts were available. She later sent Trump a note apologizing for what she feared had been an awkward scene as she tried to stay close to him on the course.
“I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland,” Harp wrote to Trump. The message was first reported by Our News Outlet in February of last year and is receiving fresh attention after the New York Times republished it today.
In the same letter, Harp described the toll her work appeared to be taking on her, telling Trump she had been skipping meals and barely sleeping. “I want things to always be right between us,” she wrote, adding that she had been “distracted all week,” while “forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time.”
She ended the note with a personal signoff: “With all my heart, Natalie.”
Harp’s determination to remain near Trump surfaced again in October 2023, when she reportedly climbed into the trunk area of an SUV after being told there was no space for her in the motorcade headed to his New York court appearance.
According to CNN, staff members had informed Harp that the vehicle was full, prompting an angry reaction. She allegedly shouted at them and insisted that Trump himself had requested that she travel with him.
Natalie Harp, 35, has been one of Trump’s closest aides for years and is dubbed the ‘human printer’ as she carries bundles of news articles around for him to read. However, her devotion to the president has raised the concerns of Trump’s top advisers and secret service.
During his May 2023 Scotland golf trip, Harp ran behind Trump’s golf cart because no other carts were available, later writing him a letter to apologize for embarrassing him while trying to keep up.
Harp then goes on to admit that she starved herself and forgot to sleep while working for Trump: ‘I want things to always be right between us. I also know I’ve been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time).’
Trump Values Harp’s Loyalty
The incident was one example of how Harp had ‘irked’ those closest to the president.
One advisor said that Trump ‘likes the attention and the fact that she is 100 percent committed and loyal.’
‘She doesn’t question, doesn’t second guess,’ the source said.
Harp spent the summer in 2023 sleeping in the women’s locker room at Trump’s Bedminster golf club so she could remain close to him, according to journalist Michael Wolff.
She had initially secured a maid’s room but moved into the locker room because it was closer to the main house and allowed her to respond more quickly whenever Trump called.
During the campaign, Melania Trump once stumbled upon Harp late at night inside Trump’s private quarters at Mar-a-Lago, an area typically off-limits to anyone outside the family, according to journalist Alex Isenstadt.
Harp was reportedly delivering documents to Trump that she did not want to wait until morning to hand over.
Trump’s relationship with Harp is back in the limelight after he chose to save her over his own cabinet secretaries amid an Iranian assassination threat following the NATO summit in Turkey last month.
Harp’s determination to remain by Trump’s side was also on display in October 2023, when she rode in the trunk of an SUV after being told there was no room for her in the motorcade taking him to a New York court appearance.
Harp spent the summer in 2023 sleeping in the women’s locker room at Trump’s Bedminster golf club so she could remain close to him.
Melania Trump once stumbled upon Harp late at night inside Trump’s private quarters at Mar-a-Lago, an area typically off-limits to anyone outside the family.
Harp Joins Trump’s Plane Switch
Harp was among a handful of aides including Trump’s former caddy Dan Scavino who switched planes with him on the tarmac in Ankara. Israeli intelligence had warned of an impending Iranian attack on Air Force One.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were left on the plane with dozens of journalists.
Senator Jon Ossoff ridiculed the pair’s closeness at a rally in Georgia on Saturday.
Ossoff said the president ‘doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.’
Harp’s estranged brother, Preston, first spoke to Our News Outlet back in June where he described his sister’s relationship with Trump as ‘very unhealthy’ and called the president a ‘national embarrassment.’
Preston, a self-described communist who lives in Nicaragua, recently told CNN that when Harp was a teenager she also wrote letters to President George Bush during the height of the Iraq war.
