Sometime before Natalie Harp joined Donald Trump’s White House staff, she was already leaving handwritten letters for him in his private quarters – personal notes tucked into his personal spaces, one of which read, “You are all that matters to me.” The woman who wrote those letters now holds the title of Executive Assistant to the President of the United States.
Preston Harp, 38, blasted the relationship between his sister and the president, calling it “very unhealthy” and describing her as “just like his fan club.” The phrase landed quickly across political media, and the White House’s response, when it came, did little to close the conversation down.
The Trump Staff Relationship That’s Raised Eyebrows
Natalie Harp has served as the executive assistant to the president since 2025. The role puts her closer to Trump than almost anyone else in the building. At the start of his second term, Trump began telling staff that Harp “was the only one who loved him as much as his wife and his kids,” adding that while other staffers would eventually leave to make money, “she’ll never leave me.”
According to Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, a book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Harp left gushing letters for Trump in his “personal spaces” before joining the White House staff, with one reportedly reading, “You are all that matters to me.” The letters were so unusual that Trump’s future Chief of Staff Susie Wiles reportedly asked herself, “Where am I?”
Regime Change was published in June 2026 and is based on hundreds of interviews with sources across the administration. It covers the sweep of Trump’s second term, including major foreign policy decisions and internal White House dynamics. The Harp passages are among its most vivid and personal reporting.
Who Is Natalie Harp?
Harp first rose to public prominence in 2019 on Fox News, praising Trump for signing a federal right-to-try law – legislation she said allowed her to access experimental treatments for her illness. The appearance caught Trump’s attention. He invited her to serve on the advisory board for his 2020 presidential campaign and to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
From 2020 to 2022, Harp worked for One America News Network. She then joined Trump’s orbit in 2022 without an official role, becoming a constant presence in his team.
Harp now follows Trump around the White House, fulfilling a wide range of requests – grabbing MAGA merchandise when asked, performing Google searches, printing favorable stories from right-wing websites, and suggesting posts for Truth Social – all of which earned her the nickname “the human printer.” She also has access to Trump’s Truth Social account and has reportedly been responsible for several controversial posts made in his name.
Michael Wolff’s 2025 book All or Nothing described Harp’s letters to Trump around 2023, including one in which she said she was “unworthy” of his support. Wolff wrote that the Secret Service reportedly viewed her as a “potential danger” during the 2024 campaign.
A Family Split Down the Middle
Preston Harp, 38, spoke to the Daily Mail from Nicaragua, where he has lived since 2023. Growing up, Natalie was closer to their “extremely conservative” and “deeply religious” mother, while Preston shared a stronger bond with their father, who died by suicide in July 2020.
The siblings have not spoken since falling out over their father’s death. Preston claimed his mother and sister wanted to say Robert Harp had died in his sleep. The dispute fractured the family permanently. Preston said he first discovered his sister was working for Trump after a friend showed him a news article about it in 2023. “I had no idea,” he told the outlet, adding, “I don’t understand why my sister, or anyone could want to work for Trump.”
Natalie appears to speak only to her mother, whom she relocated with to West Palm Beach, Florida, three miles from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Harp’s proximity to Trump concerned other aides, some of whom attributed it to her decision to remain with him after the January 6 Capitol attack. Aides who spoke to the New York Times described her as a “conduit” and an “instant enabler of his impulses.”
The White House Response and the Conservative Pushback
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to hold the position in U.S. history, provided a statement: “Natalie Harp is one of the most loyal and hardest working aides on President Trump’s team.” Leavitt offered no comment on the specific claims made by Preston Harp or detailed in the Haberman-Swan book.
Katie Miller, wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, posted on X, quote-tweeting a Daily Beast article about Preston’s interview: “Natalie doesn’t do interviews or talk to the media. This is too far and unwarranted.”
Trump responded to the Regime Change book by calling it “mostly made up, Fake News, largely fiction,” dismissing author Maggie Haberman as a “third rate writer and intellect” in a Truth Social post. The book describes Harp’s growing influence as a constant presence managing Trump’s information flow and social media.
The accounts in Regime Change are sourced from within the administration. Haberman and Swan write that some Trump aides told them they wished their boss “was more anxious about the dangers he was courting” and that “his advisors knew he was not receptive to being briefed on harsh realities.”
The Broader Picture Inside the Trump White House
Regime Change‘s portrait of Trump’s second term describes a presidency in which traditional checks on presidential behavior – aides willing to push back, advisers who would quietly slow-walk impulsive decisions – have been largely removed. In his second term, the generals who once told him “no” were long gone, and the lawyers who remained had learned to pick their battles.
According to the New York Times, Harp sent Trump letters calling him her “Guardian and Protector in this Life” and promising him, “I don’t ever want to let you down.” Trump reportedly calls her “sweetie” and thinks of her as a daughter.
In his 2025 book, Wolff cataloged a set of notes Harp wrote and added to Trump’s reading material, including phrases like “You’re the alpha and the omega” and “What would I be without you?” Wolff wrote that there was widespread concern within Trump’s orbit over Harp’s behavior, and that the Secret Service had warned aides they viewed her as a danger to herself and to him.
The Haberman-Swan book adds that Trump called on Harp to help shape his information diet, with aides describing her as someone who supplies him with a constant stream of favorable coverage pulled from right-wing social media and printed out in paper form. Senior staff had grown to worry about that loop, according to the book’s sourcing.
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What This Tells Us About Access and Power
Harp’s role – selecting which articles reach Trump, drafting messages, suggesting Truth Social posts – means she functions less as a traditional assistant and more as an informal gatekeeper of his information environment, a form of influence that doesn’t appear on an org chart.
Preston Harp learned his sister had become one of the most prominent aides in Washington from a press article. They haven’t spoken in six years. He says he doesn’t plan to reconnect with his sister or their mother, and has no plans to return to the United States.
Natalie Harp did not respond to requests for comment on the public claims made about her relationship with the president. The White House’s position remains unchanged: she is loyal, she works hard, and the rest is noise.
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