Melania defends Natalie Harp’s relationship with Trump
Melania defends Natalie Harp’s relationship with Trump
Natasha LeakeThu, September 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM UTC
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Natalie Harp is one of Donald Trump’s most trusted aides - AARON SCHWARTZ/AFP via Getty Images
Melania Trump has come to the defence of her husband’s close aide Natalie Harp amid rumours that Ms Harp has an unhealthy obsession with the US president.
Media speculation about the 35-year-old aide was prompted after Jon Ossoff, the Democratic senator for Georgia suggested Mr Trump “doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie”.
The aide’s close relationship with Mr Trump and her unfettered access are thought to have caused concern amongst his staff.
She became known as the “human printer” after carrying around a printer to hand Mr Trump hard copies of news articles on the campaign trail.
Ms Harp is reported to have slept in a changing room to be close to the US president and travelled in the boot of his car when there were no seats.
A series of intimate letters Ms Harp apparently sent to Mr Trump also resurfaced, in which she reportedly wrote “You are all that matters to me” and labelled herself “unworthy” of him.
The first lady’s spokesperson criticised the media saying they ‘don’t know anything about the first lady’s personal and private life’ - Finn Gomez/Getty Images
Speaking on a conservative YouTube show released on Tuesday, Marc Beckman, the first lady’s official spokesman, said Ms Harp was “hard-working”, “loyal” and “very intelligent”.
“The mainstream media… they’re endlessly obsessed with garbage tabloid gossip about Natalie Harp, who is a hard-working, loyal White House aide to President Trump, a cancer survivor, who POTUS helped get off-label treatment for and saved her life. I mean, what do you make of that?” he said.
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“They don’t know anything about the first lady’s personal and private life,” he added. “They don’t even take the time to put us on air to cover these incredible achievements that our first lady has accomplished.”
“What they need to do is look in the mirror because they’re all attacking this hard-working, very talented, very intelligent person in Natalie Harp,” he said.
He added: “And what they do is they harp on the issues of gossip rather than going ahead and covering the substantial achievements that this first lady and the president also have conducted during this past year and a half.”
Ms Harp has worked for Mr Trump since 2022. On Wednesday, it was revealed that she was given $45,000 (£33,000 ) by the president as a Christmas present, according to financial disclosure forms released by his administration.
In July, she was one few aides that travelled with Mr Trump on an alternative jet after he was sneaked off Air Force One in Turkey over an Iranian assassination threat.
Key members of Mr Trump’s cabinet, including Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent, were left behind on the original plane alongside journalists.
Ms Harp gained national attention in 2019 when, having been diagnosed with bone cancer, she credited Mr Trump for saving her life through a law signed in 2018 that provided her with access to experimental treatments.
She wrote Mr Trump a series of letters in 2023, telling him in one, “You are all that matters to me,” and describing him as her “Guardian and Protector in this Life”, according to The New York Times.
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