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Trump's 'Human Printer' Is Somehow Weirder Than You Thought
TRUMP 2.0 FEB. 25, 2025
Trump’s ‘Human Printer’ Is Somehow Weirder Than You Thought
By Olivia Craighead, a news writer for the Cut who covers pop culture and celebrity.
Photo: Jabin Botsford/Getty Images
Do you remember Natalie Harp, Donald Trump’s “human printer”? The New York Times previously reported that Harp is the incredibly devoted (some might say unsettlingly obsessed) Trump aide whose job is to print out flattering articles about Trump and deliver them to him in a Lululemon bag. Would you believe me if I said that her whole deal is even weirder?
According to a Vanity Fair excerpt of All or Nothing, Michael Wolff’s new book about the 2024 election, Harp is so wholly committed to Trump that she recently spent a summer living in a golf-club locker room just to be close to him. Wolff writes that when the campaign decamped to Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for the summer, Harp was deliberately not given a room in an effort to push her out (others in Trump’s orbit had become wary of what was reportedly called “the Natalie situation”). Nevertheless, she appeared. “She had reached out to the grounds staff at the country club and gotten herself a maid’s room,” Wolff writes. “And when that proved too far from the main house to respond quickly enough to Trump’s calls, she relocated herself to the much closer women’s locker room, where, with undiminished proximity to Trump, she would spend the summer.”
No job is worth doing all that. Based on Wolff’s reporting, it seems that Harp is somehow even more sycophantic than the usual freaks in Trump’s orbit. When she was part of a trio of women brought to an NCAA wrestling competition, Trump attempted to bait them into saying which wrestlers were hottest. Harp initially wouldn’t say anything, but when pressed by Trump, she reportedly said, “Oh, none of them, none of them, sir. I didn’t find any of them attractive or anything worth looking at.” The takeaway being, apparently, that Harp had eyes only for Trump. (In a detail that will send a chill down your spine, Wolff writes that Trump has never had an affair with Harp because winning the presidency in 2016 made him “post-sex.”)
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Trump’s ‘Human Printer’ Is Somehow Weirder Than You Thought
By Olivia Craighead, a news writer for the Cut who covers pop culture and celebrity.
Photo: Jabin Botsford/Getty Images
Do you remember Natalie Harp, Donald Trump’s “human printer”? The New York Times previously reported that Harp is the incredibly devoted (some might say unsettlingly obsessed) Trump aide whose job is to print out flattering articles about Trump and deliver them to him in a Lululemon bag. Would you believe me if I said that her whole deal is even weirder?
According to a Vanity Fair excerpt of All or Nothing, Michael Wolff’s new book about the 2024 election, Harp is so wholly committed to Trump that she recently spent a summer living in a golf-club locker room just to be close to him. Wolff writes that when the campaign decamped to Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for the summer, Harp was deliberately not given a room in an effort to push her out (others in Trump’s orbit had become wary of what was reportedly called “the Natalie situation”). Nevertheless, she appeared. “She had reached out to the grounds staff at the country club and gotten herself a maid’s room,” Wolff writes. “And when that proved too far from the main house to respond quickly enough to Trump’s calls, she relocated herself to the much closer women’s locker room, where, with undiminished proximity to Trump, she would spend the summer.”
No job is worth doing all that. Based on Wolff’s reporting, it seems that Harp is somehow even more sycophantic than the usual freaks in Trump’s orbit. When she was part of a trio of women brought to an NCAA wrestling competition, Trump attempted to bait them into saying which wrestlers were hottest. Harp initially wouldn’t say anything, but when pressed by Trump, she reportedly said, “Oh, none of them, none of them, sir. I didn’t find any of them attractive or anything worth looking at.” The takeaway being, apparently, that Harp had eyes only for Trump. (In a detail that will send a chill down your spine, Wolff writes that Trump has never had an affair with Harp because winning the presidency in 2016 made him “post-sex.”)
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