Natalie Harp is one of, if not the most, loyal aides to Donald Trump. She is with him anywhere the president goes, and it appears as if her work has paid off, literally. Now, reports have emerged of the insane Christmas gift Trump handed her, which experts say could be illegal.
Natalie Harp has been photographed alongside Donald Trump at various times in recent years. However, for a long time, many didn’t know what she was actually doing.
She reportedly acts as a gatekeeper for those hoping to meet President Trump and is said to have access to his communications and social media accounts. Harp is also reportedly involved in helping the president craft posts for Truth Social.
Natalie Harp, 34, has earned the nickname “the human printer” inside the White House for carrying a portable printer and delivering the president a steady stream of printed news articles, emails, and documents throughout the day.
Natalie Harp’s devotion to President Donald Trump is now well known. But a few weeks ago, biographer Michael Wolff made public two letters Harp sent to Trump, offering a revealing glimpse into their relationship.
In the letters, the 35-year-old Trump aide Harp wrote that she wanted a role where she could talk to Trump and look pretty. She also told the president, “you are all that matters to me.”
Trump’s loyal aide Natalie Harp’s letters to president revealed
Harp wrote that she missed the days when Trump would call her “and we’d talk about everything and nothing.”
She also appeared to push back against the idea that their relationship should remain strictly professional, writing: “We shouldn’t have to talk about work all the time.” In another passage, Harp explained how she viewed her place around Trump:
Speaking on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast, Michael Wolff, who has written books on Donald Trump in the past, said the letters were a “red flag.”
“The relationship here is not a relationship that should exist in a professional setting, and certainly in a professional setting with someone who has been, and may well be again, the president of the United States.
Another person who isn’t a fan of Natalia and Donald Trump’s dynamic is her brother, Preston Harp.
In a recent interview with the Daily Mail, he called Trump a “national embarrassment,” claiming that his sister’s level of dedication to the president has crossed into troubling territory.
“She’s just like his fan club,” he said, adding that he views the pair’s connection as “very unhealthy.”
Trump gave Natalie Harp $45,000 cash gift for the holidays
Donald Trump seems impressed by Natalie Harp, especially after a new bombshell report about the gift he gave her for Christmas.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump gave Natalie and three other trusted assistants $45,000 in cash for the holidays in 2025.
The money was described as a “cash gift for the holidays” in forms disclosed by Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin, and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain Harris.
All three women have worked for Trump for several years and have desks just steps away from the Oval Office. However, the gift is facing both ethical and legal scrutiny.
Richard W. Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, told Forbes that the payments appear to be extra money on top of the employees’ government salaries, which could violate federal law.
The site reports that federal law prohibits federal employees from receiving a “supplementation of salary” from “any source other than the Government of the United States,” including “an individual, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization.”
Gift is facing scrutiny
Speaking to Forbes, Painter said Trump’s decision to give his aides that type of gift is “a classic case of supplementation of government salary,” He further argued that the payments are not gifts and are nothing like an employer taking employees out for dinner or giving them a bottle of wine.
“You can’t have somebody coming into the government and people are writing them private checks to top off their government salary,” Painter told Forbes, adding that it’s “not allowed, whether it’s the President of the United States or anybody else.”
Further, Barbara McQuade, a former United States attorney and a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School, wrote on X that Trump’s gifts “violate ethics rules, which exist to promote loyalty to the United States over loyalty to one person.”
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