Natalie Harp, Donald Trump’s 30-something aide who apparently follows the president around like a shadow, once resorted to hopping in the trunk of an SUV he was riding in so she could stick by his side, CNN reported Tuesday.
Harp was “determined not to be left behind” when there wasn’t a seat available in a vehicle bringing the president from New York’s Trump Tower to a Manhattan courthouse in October 2023, sources told the network.
The aide — whose relationship with Trump has drawn renewed attention since Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) named her in a viral campaign rally moment — took part in a “screaming match,” according to the report, and insisted the president asked her to attend the court appearance.
That led to Harp jumping into the SUV trunk, which marks another addition to a growing list of ways she’s appeared to show her obedience to the president.
Trump has reportedly saved his trusted aide a seat in recent months.
Harp, who is known as the “human printer” in the president’s circle due to the portable printer she follows him around with, was one of just a handful of those who joined the president’s secret catering truck-to-secret plane escape when he was faced with a security threat in Turkey last month, The Washington Post reported.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — who are fourth and fifth in the presidential line of succession, respectively — were left behind on what effectively was a decoy plane.
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Ossoff’s viral dig, and the subsequent wave of stories about Harp and Trump in the days since, have seemingly gotten under the MAGA world’s skin.
The aide’s adoring letters to Trump have also raised eyebrows and, at one point, reportedly alarmed the Secret Service during the president’s 2024 campaign.
In one letter to Trump, highlighted by The New York Times on Tuesday, she concluded with the words, “With all my heart, Natalie.”
Trump “likes the attention” from Harp “and the fact that she is 100% committed and loyal,” a White House adviser told CNN.
The president has declared to others that Harp will “never leave” him and is “the only one who loved him as much as his wife and his kids,” the Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan wrote in their new book “Regime Change.”