A president governs by what is put into his hands, and into those hands one woman places the world. Natalie Harp, listed at the White House as an executive assistant, follows 80-year-old Donald Trump around with a portable printer and hands him, on paper, whatever flattering things the internet is saying about him, so he can hold the applause in his hands like a trophy. They call her the Human Printer. But this printer delivers far more than praise.
She runs his public voice. On Truth Social, Harp brings him stacks of printed drafts for approval, often scraped together from other people’s accounts. If he nods, she logs into his account, sometimes in the middle of the night, and fires off the messages in batches. The chief of staff’s office knows nothing about it, and neither do the national security people. She works for Trump, she has told others, and answers only to him. The most powerful public voice on earth is operated by a loyalist whom nobody elected and nobody vetted. No office and no oath stand in between, only a woman who loves him and an account the world reads.
Across thousands of messages, that account swings from hymn of praise to knife. It celebrates the president, and in the next breath tears his enemies apart, driving his rage over immigration and crime all the way back to the lost 2020 election. Artificial intelligence images turn his opponents into grotesque figures and him into a colossus. Roughly one in every 10 text posts slaps an insult onto someone: liar, loser, low IQ. “Fake News” appears almost 140 times. Sometimes it hits names, Democrats and governors, along with judges and journalists who resist him. Sometimes it hits entire tribes, the criminals and the woke colleges, the cartels and transgender children. A machine for manufacturing enemies, driven by a printer cart. No editor and no hesitation stand between the impulse and the world.
And one fifth of the stream is the state itself, in real time. Foreign policy announcements and formal acts of government run through the same account as the insults, arranged by the same hand. Since the fighting with Iran began on February 28, it has pushed out at least 240 texts and videos about the war and the Middle East. The rest are reposts and images picked up from around the internet. Some come from well-known figures, from commentators Marc Thiessen and Eric Daugherty, along with Senator Mike Lee and billionaire Elon Musk. But much of it leads back to anonymous accounts, including one whose owner, according to the profile, is based in South Asia. The foreign policy of a world power, scooped out of the gutter of the internet. An anonymous user in South Asia supplies the material, and the president sends it out as the policy of the United States.
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A video showed just how far this reaches. At Trump’s direction, Harp posted a message showing Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, along with an image portraying Trump as a Christ-like figure. The president deleted both after protests erupted from both camps. The part with the Obamas, he told reporters, he had not seen before approving it. An aide blamed it on an editing error. The membrane lets through what it lets through, and nobody behind it can stop it. What the president gets to see, she has selected, and what the country gets to see, it gets from her.
Steven Cheung, seen here with his girlfriend, has served as White House Communications Director since January 2025 and is the man who turns outrage over bombs into click counts. It is time our readers learn exactly what kind of person is speaking.
Who is Steven Cheung?
Steven Cheung has led White House communications since January 2025, and he has turned it into exactly what it is today - a weapon. For years he served as Trump's spokesman and one of the chief attack dogs of his political campaigns. So when he mocks female artists by saying they "keep falling for it," those words come from someone who has made personal attacks part of his profession. He routinely dismisses independent media as biased, publicly insults reporters on social media, and repeatedly singles out individual journalists, especially CNN's Kaitlan Collins. Press organizations have criticized his treatment of the media, while communications experts have condemned what they describe as a systematic effort to escalate political attacks against individual reporters. He has been deeply involved both in the growing hostility toward White House correspondents and in the blurring of the line between government and political campaigning.
But the press is only the beginning. Cheung stood behind every public defense of Trump during his criminal cases, defended Trump's rhetoric after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and even justified the publication of sensitive documents. He has been accused of promoting the debunked false claim that the 2020 election was stolen and of helping fuel doubts about the legitimacy of the results. He lashed out at judges and election officials, attacked Special Counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the FBI, and the Department of Justice, dismissing every criminal case against Trump as political persecution. Derisive nicknames for opponents, attacks on Republicans who broke with Trump, and constant insults aimed at anyone viewed as an enemy have become his daily routine. Anyone who celebrates the anger of those whose work has been taken from them as free advertising reveals exactly how they understand power, and that understanding has a name and a long history.
Her spokesman Steven Cheung was proud of it. Truth Social was more popular than ever, he said, because the president was giving the people his unfiltered and immediate thoughts without the biased press getting in the way. The sentence is unintentionally funny. He calls it unfiltered when it is the most thoroughly filtered voice in the world, pulled from other people’s accounts, printed, approved and fired off in batches. Only one filter remains, devotion.
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This devoted woman sits outside the Oval Office, makes $150,000 a year and is known as Trump’s gatekeeper. For a year she avoided a security background check, and during the war she became a direct line from foreign leaders to the president. When Trump left Air Force One in Turkey in a catering truck and left Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the press behind as bait for an Iranian attack, she was with him on the secret plane. David Axelrod, once a senior adviser to Barack Obama, called the situation deadly serious. The random capital letters in her notes look exactly like his posts, the voice and the printer have become one. A world power has tied part of its security to the emotional state of a woman in love. To reach the president, you call the woman who worships him, and nobody checks what goes in or comes out through that route. People around him say her influence had grown and was based on nothing, that she had no experience. As recently as Sunday, the two were seen getting off Marine One together.
How the White House responds to questions is a spectacle in itself. When Senator Jon Ossoff joked that Trump mainly wanted to travel with Natalie, spokesman Davis Ingle fired back that Ossoff was a “feminine theatre kid” whose performance was cringeworthy. Not a word about the issue itself, only an insult, printed by the same shop that also feeds the account. The republic has handed its loudest voice to a hand that trembles when he frowns.
How far that bond goes is shown by the original letters: Harp wrote them in 2023 during Trump’s golf trip through Scotland and Ireland, when she was 31 and he was 76, folded printouts signed with a Sharpie, the same thick marker Trump uses for his own signature. “You are all that matters to me,” she writes, “I don’t want to ever let you down.” She calls him her “Guardian and Protector in this life.” She modifies a movie classic, saying she could not have parted with him for anyone less worthy, and immediately delivers the punchline herself, that she alone is unworthy. She closes one letter with “With all my heart,” the other with “Always.” Two signatures no boss would ever expect to read from an employee.
Original letter from Natalie Harp to Donald Trump
The first letter is one long apology. A grown woman apologizes in writing for walking on the golf course instead of riding in a cart, and for panicking while sitting alone without her passport outside Customs and calling him instead of the Secret Service. “I want things to always be right between us,” she writes, admitting she had spent the entire week forgetting to eat and sleep. She fears “being lowered in your eyes,” because she never wants to bring him “anything but joy.” The gatekeeper to the most powerful man in the world asks forgiveness over a golf cart. You read it and do not know whether to laugh or be frightened.
Original letter from Natalie Harp to Donald Trump
The second letter crawls even closer. She thanks Trump for forcing her to unplug, saying she had finally been allowed to forget about being the Human Printer. At the same time, she envies women whose only job is to “talk with you and look pretty,” and cries out: “I want that job!!” She misses the old calls, when they used to talk about everything and nothing. “We shouldn’t have to talk about work all the time!!” She has always felt like someone in between, she writes, somewhere between a mere staffer and the people he likes talking to on the plane or over dinner. From trying so hard just to stay afloat, she says she looks “like a hunchback.” Then she grants him a right no employee ever grants a boss: “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.” She calls it a self-analysis, and says her goal is to make him proud. In a postscript, she complains that the cold in Scotland and Ireland had turned the old “scars” on her hand purple, and yet she is happy to be “coming home to my roots.”
Beneath the devotion lies a wound. In the letters, Harp recalls a promise Trump made to her after her father died, and says her father would be happy that she had now been able to travel to Scotland and Ireland. Robert Harp, a real estate broker, took his own life in July 2020. The family had already been hit by serious tragedies before that, with two aunts dying of cancer. Harp grew up in a deeply Christian home. Her father studied at Dallas Theological Seminary, and she herself attended two evangelical colleges, one of them founded by preacher Jerry Falwell. She first caught the president’s attention in 2019, when she appeared on television and credited a law he had signed with helping her against bone cancer, something experts questioned given the timeline of her illness. She spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2020, worked for a right-wing network and joined his team in 2022. By 2024, her closeness to Trump had already alarmed future chief of staff Susie Wiles so much that Wiles wondered what she had gotten herself into.
Harp learned her trade on the farthest right edge of television. She hosted at One America News Network, a network that relentlessly pushed Trump’s lie about the stolen election and aired conspiracy stories for which it later had to answer in court. That is where she picked up the tone she now prints for the president, and where she also learned to treat devotion as a virtue.
Preston Harp, thirty-eight years old, long estranged from the family and now living in Nicaragua, said his sister’s infatuation came from a difficult relationship with their late father.
Her estranged brother sees the story differently from the headlines. Preston Harp, 38 years old, long estranged from the family and living in Nicaragua, calls it an unhealthy obsession and a search for a father. She sees a father in Trump, he says, because Trump embodies a faith their own father never did, a belief in America’s innate superiority over every other nation. She enthusiastically pushed the gilded makeover of the Oval Office, and back in 2019 Trump had already invited her to give a rare speaking appearance at a Christian gathering. Her brother broke with the family after their father’s death because, he says, their mother and his sister wanted to claim that the father had died in his sleep. The children had been homeschooled, with a sanitized version of the past.
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Whether that armchair diagnosis is right is something nobody on the outside can decide, and it does not matter. What matters is the machine operated by a single hand. Flattery is as old as the courts of princes, and the most devoted servant was always the most dangerous, less for the ruler than for the ruler’s view of reality. But no courtier ever held this much in his hands. This loyalist lends the president the mouth with which he insults the country, turns his opponents into apes and himself into a savior, bypassing anyone who might object. Unfiltered, the spokesman says. Filtered through love instead of judgment. This is how a man with the codes of a world power governs according to the image a loving hand prints for him and fires off in his name, and mistakes that image of himself for the country. The country will pay the bill for a printout.
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