Natalie Harp gushes to 'guardian and protector' Trump in new letters

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on Aug 21, 2026

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Natalie Harp gushes over President Donald Trump as her “Guardian and Protector” in newly unearthed letters that underline the unusually close personal relationship the 35-year-old White House aide has with the commander-in-chief.

“You are all that matters to me,” Harp writes to Trump in one missive, the Daily Beast reported. “I don’t want to ever let you down.”

“No one know or cares about me more,” the $150,000-a-year executive assistant wrote in another letter. “Thank you for always being there for me.”

The news site published scanned copies of the letters bearing Harp’s distinctive handwritten “Natalie” signature. One was signed with the affectionate “Always” while another ended: “With all my heart.”

The New York Times also published excerpts from the letters, the authenticity of which the White House has not disputed.

“You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down,” Harp wrote. “Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

Although there is no sign of a romantic link, some of the phrases in the letters strike a less-than-professional tone.

“I miss the days when you’d call, during my Talkshow days, and we’d talk about everything and nothing,” wrote Harp, who once worked as an on-air personality for the pro-Trump One America Network. “I want to get back to that synergy. We shouldn’t have to talk about work all the time!!”

The White House insists Harp is simply a loyal and hardworking aide to Trump.

The letters are likely to keep Harp in the spotlight as critics question whether the role she plays is appropriate.

Harp caught Trump’s attention during his time out of office when she credited him with saving her life by approving experimental bone cancer treatments. But she has never revealed exactly what those treatments were or other medical details.

She is nearly always by Trump’s side in the Oval Office and on trips and often types out social media posts on his behalf. She boasts of carrying a portable printer to allow her to print out hard copies of documents, which is Trump’s preferred method of reading content.

Harp’s powerful role and ubiquitous presence alongside Trump has been widely known and noted by White House insiders and journalists for many months.

It raised eyebrows when stories noted that she was one of just three close aides who joined Trump by hiding out in an airport catering cart and secretly switching planes for a flight to Britain from the NATO summit in Turkey after an Iranian threat.

She burst into the broader public spotlight last week when Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, derided Trump as being uninterested in running the country and more focused on “traveling with Natalie” in his luxe Qatari-donated Air Force One plane.

White House aides and Republican media mouthpieces lashed out at Ossoff, who is mentioned as a possible 2028 presidential candidates, for what they called a sexist dig at Harp, But the rising Democratic star has refused to back away from the blistering critique, saying he’s mostly targeting Trump for making poor decisions that don’t benefit the American people.

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