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Trump’s toe-curling letters from the human printer

Mortifying missives have emerged to the president from his 35-year-old executive assistant, Natalie Harp

Natalie Harp in the Oval Office with Donald Trump. Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Earlier this week Rats in a Sack reported on the rumours swirling in Washington about the relationship between octogenarian Donald Trump and Natalie Harp, his 35-year-old “executive assistant” nicknamed the “human printer”.

Eyebrows were initially raised by his decision to take her as he switched flights over the Middle East while leaving two of his most senior colleagues on a decoy. US journalists, initially coy to report gossip, appeared to feel they had been given the green light after Jon Ossoff, a Georgia senator who is being spoken of as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, referenced it in a speech, claiming that Trump wanted to “travel with Natalie on their apparently defenceless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar”.

Now a series of intimate letters sent to Trump by Harp have found their way into public – and they are as toe-curlingly embarrassing as they are plain weird.

The letters were apparently written in 2023, during or after Harp accompanied Trump on a visit to Scotland and Ireland when she was 31 and Trump was 76. In them she tells her employer she is envious of women “whose only job seems to be to talk with you and look pretty”.

“I want that job!!” she writes in the letter, saying she missed the days when he would call “and we’d talk about everything and nothing.” “We shouldn’t have to talk about work all the time!!” she tells him. It also emerges she refers to herself as “the human printer”, a reference to how she carries a mini-printer to allow Trump to read articles about himself.

One of the letters, published by the Daily Beast website, is written as an apology, suggesting she was worried she upset Trump on a 2023 trip to his golf courses in Aberdeen and Turnberry, Scotland, and Doonbeg, Ireland.

“I’m sorry,” she writes. “I thought I was the only one left behind last night, and had no idea Margot’s car was also pulled over, and sent back to the Airport,” apparently referring to White House communications adviser Margot Martin, who was on the trip.

“Since I was alone in the van outside Customs, without my passport, I panicked, and should have just called Secret Service instead of you,” she wrote.

She also apologised for walking on the course, rather than being in a cart. “If there is anything else I have done to cause you trouble, please forgive me,” she said.

“I want things to always be right between us. I also know I’ve been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time).”

She wrote that she was letting other people’s remarks upset her, “not because I care what other people think, but because I see myself being lowered in your eyes and good opinion. That is the fear you see, because I never want to bring you anything but joy.” She thanks the former and future president for being “my Guardian and Protector in this life”.

In a second, even more intimate letter, she writes about how much she enjoyed being on the golf course with the president.

“We could be out on the Course, with no machines, and even forget what time it was! I didn’t have to be ‘Human Printer.’ I could take time to enjoy good conversation, and still get all my work done at the end of the day. In fact, I even had time to take long morning and evening walks to enjoy each Sunrise and Sunset (though I did forget to eat and sleep!).”

Harp writes that she noticed Trump was aware of her “slightly negative” mood at times. “I had no idea how rapidly I was approaching burnout, and starting to envy those whose only ‘job’ seems to be to talk with you and look pretty. I want that job!!”

“So many times, I’m just trying to stay afloat with all that’s coming in for you, I look like a hunchback who didn’t have time to freshen up. (at least you know what I should look like)!”

Describing the letter as “self-analysis,” she said her goal was to make Trump proud.

“And please, when I fail, will you tell me?” she writes. “You have the absolute right to cuss me out, if need be, when I deserve it, because no one knows or cares about me more.”

In response, White House spokesman Davis Ingle responded, “Natalie Harp is one of the most loyal and hardest-working aides on President Trump’s team. 

“The Fake News’s continued attacks on President Trump and his Administration prove exactly why trust in media is at historic lows. The media should get back to reporting real news and stop regurgitating Trump-Deranged liberal talking points.” Nothing to see here!

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