Trump parades ‘perfect’ Natalie Harp on stage and likens her to a Price Is Right model

Donald Trump hauled his ever-present aide Natalie Harp on stage at a Nebraska rally on Monday night and likened her to a game show model in front of a roaring crowd.

The president, 80, was midway through his speech in Grand Island when he summoned the 35-year-old to bring him an executive order on diesel prices, calling out: ‘Natalie, come out.’

Harp emerged to cheers and handed over the document, which Trump signed before tossing his pen into the audience, passing the order back and patting her on the shoulder.

‘She reminds me of The Price Is Right,’ Trump said as she walked away. ‘This perfect person comes up, hands it, walks off,’ he went on, before adding: ‘We should go on television with this show, right?’

The order Harp carried out allows anyone to buy tax-free red-dyed diesel, the fuel commonly used on farms and building sites, with the national average sitting at $6.32 a gallon four weeks before the midterms. 

The long-running game show is known for the models who present the prizes. The stunt put Harp back in the spotlight after a summer in which her closeness to the president dominated headlines. 

Harp is rarely more than a few feet from Trump and has been dubbed the ‘human printer’ for trailing him with a laptop and feeding him news articles and social media posts at all hours of the day and night. 

In July, she was one of just three aides who hid in an airport catering cart and secretly switched planes with him after an Iranian threat at the NATO summit in Turkey. 

Top cabinet officials, including Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent, were left behind on the larger plane while Harp stayed with the president. 

Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff seized on the episode at a Georgia rally in August, claiming Trump does not want to do the job and would rather ‘travel with Natalie’.

Harp’s devotion to Trump caught the attention of the Secret Service and reportedly stunned chief of staff Susie Wiles, according to New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

Trump reportedly told staff at the time that Harp was the only person on his team who cared about him.

‘All of you will go off and make money. She’ll never leave me,’ Trump told his close advisers. 

Her access to the president was so unrestricted that at one point in 2023, Melania Trump stumbled upon Harp late at night inside Trump’s private quarters at Mar-a-Lago, an area typically off-limits to anyone outside the family.

Regardless of the controversy, White House spokesman Davis Ingle has described Harp as ‘one of the most loyal and hardest working aides on President Trump’s team’.

Marc Beckman, a senior adviser to Melania Trump, has also pushed back against the rumors during the summer, accusing the ‘liberal media’ of ‘attacking this hardworking, very talented, very intelligent person’.