President Donald Trump’s executive assistant, Natalie Harp, reportedly referred to the politician as her “guardian and protector” in leaked letters.
“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),” Harp, 34, allegedly wrote to Trump, 80, in 2023 letters obtained by The Daily Beast.
Harp came into Trump’s orbit amid her diagnosis with stage II bone cancer in the 2010s. She credited the president’s signing of the Right to Try Act in 2018 with allowing her to try an experimental immunotherapy treatment that supposedly saved her life. (Experts have reported that the immunotherapy drug Harp used was already FDA-approved and did not fall under the Right to Try Act.)
She joined Trump’s advisory board for his 2020 presidential campaign and was later appointed his executive assistant in 2025. (Harp was given the nickname “Human Printer” by his staff for carrying a mobile printer to show Trump positive articles and social media posts.)
Per The Daily Beast, multiple letters obtained from Trump biographer Michael Wolff were written after Harp accompanied Trump on his May 2023 trip to his golf courses in Aberdeen and Turnberry, Scotland, and Doonbeg, Ireland.
In one letter, Harp appeared to apologize for a travel mishap involving now-White House communications adviser Margo Martin.
“I’m sorry. I thought I was the only one left behind last night, and had no idea Margot’s [sic] car was also pulled over, and sent back to the Airport,” she allegedly wrote to Trump. “Since I was alone in the van outside Customs, without my passport, I panicked, and should have just called Secret Service instead of you.”
Harp purportedly asked Trump to “forgive” her for “anything else I have done to cause you trouble” on the trip. She explained that she’d recently let other people’s opinions of her impact her performance on the job.
“Not because I care what other people think, but because I see myself being lowered in your eyes and good opinion. That is the fear you see, because I never want to bring you anything but joy,” she allegedly wrote.
Executive assistant to the president Natalie Harp Alex Wong/Getty Images
She reportedly signed off this letter by calling Trump her “Guardian and Protector in this life.”
In a second letter, Harp thanked Trump for allowing her to accompany him on his visit to Scotland and Ireland.
“We could be out on the Course, with no machines, and even forget what time it was! I didn’t have to be ‘Human Printer,’” she allegedly wrote. “I could take time to enjoy good conversation, and still get all my work done at the end of the day. In fact, I even had time to take long morning and evening walks to enjoy each Sunrise and Sunset (though I did forget to eat and sleep!).”
However, Harper once again apologized for being in a “slightly negative” mood on the trip.
“I had no idea how rapidly I was approaching burnout, and starting to envy those whose only ‘job’ seems to be to talk with you and look pretty. I want that job,” she purportedly wrote. “So many times, I’m just trying to stay afloat with all that’s coming in for you, I look like a hunchback who didn’t have time to freshen up. (at least you know what I should look like)!”
Harp also encouraged Trump to let her know the ways she could improve at her job.
“Please, when I fail, will you tell me?” she reportedly asked. “You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if need be, when I deserve it, because no one knows or cares about me more.”
Us has reached out to the White House for comment on the letters.
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White House spokesman Davis Ingle previously told The Daily Beast, “Natalie Harp is one of the most loyal and hardest-working aides on President Trump’s team. The Fake News’s continued attacks on President Trump and his Administration prove exactly why trust in media is at historic lows. The media should get back to reporting real news and stop regurgitating Trump-Deranged liberal talking points.”
The nature of Harp’s relationship to Trump first made waves last week when Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff made a joke about the two during an Atlanta rally.
“While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings,” Ossoff told the crowd. “He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie, to their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.”
Ossoff, 39, was referencing reports that Harp had been with Trump on an alternate plane out of Turkey in July 2026 following an alleged threat from Iran.
Natalie’s estranged brother, Preston Harp, recently told CNN that he believed his sister had developed an “unhealthy obsession” with the president.
“I think my sister didn’t break out of that delusion that our mom raised us with,” he explained. “Trump is everything my mom taught us to respect, so I think that’s where her infatuation for Trump comes from, honestly. Because I don’t think it’s a physical attraction, let’s get real.”
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