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Although First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance didn’t join President Donald Trump in China, a woman named Natalie Harp did, and it’s raising questions about the nature of their relationship. To be fair, people have been questioning Harp’s relationship with the president for some time now. Multiple reports have suggested that she’s obsessed with the president in a way that has come across as concerning.
For example, Harp has reportedly called Trump her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.” She also allegedly wrote a letter that said, “You are all that matters to me.”
Because of the nature of their relationship, Harp has an interesting nickname.
According to multiple reports, the 35-year-old is frequently called the “human printer.” She currently serves as Trump’s executive assistant, and apparently has been given this nickname because of her tendency to print out tons of content for Trump.
She helps Trump stay up-to-date on what people are saying about him, though the articles and posts she shares with him are not necessarily objective or even varied. When Trump boasts about how much people love him and denies any of the negative reports about him, critics often wonder, Who is telling him this stuff? Where is he getting this information? And it seems like Natalie Harp might be the answer. She even carries a mobile printer around, according to Alex Isenstadt’s book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power (per The Mirror).
Journalist Michael Wolff has also written about Harp and her relationship with Trump.
Although Trump appears to spend a ton of time on Truth Social, it seems that Harp is actually helping him with that. He allegedly prefers looking at physical media, which is why Harp prints out social posts and articles to share with him. According to Wolff, Trump likes to leave time in his schedule to go over his “papers,” which is really just content that Harp printed out for him.
Wolff described the content Harp shares with Trump as “a random collection of out-of-date articles and printouts from obscure websites and fan artwork downloaded from strange Trump-adoring places on the internet.”
So, Harp might also be responsible for Trump’s unhinged Truth Social activity—either directly or indirectly.
Trump’s posts come off as so unfiltered and strange that it’s hard to imagine anyone other than him posting them. It’s not clear exactly what is happening behind the scenes. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung declined to provide the Wall Street Journal with details about Trump’s posting habits.
“We don’t discuss internal deliberations of how the process works, but no other social-media tool has been more effective than Truth,” he told the publication.
Meanwhile, the publication also reported that Harp allegedly prints out potential social posts to show Trump and get his approval. She then reportedly logs into his account and shares a large number of approved posts at once, making it look like an unhinged posting spree. However, even if this is true, Harp is presumably just responsible for some of Trump’s Truth Social posts, so it’s still not clear how often Trump is posting content himself (maybe his weirdly flirty message about Sean Dufffy’s wife was all him).
Regardless, the content Harp prints out for him surely influences his perspective.
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