Natalie Harp rode in SUV trunk when she couldn’t get seat in Trump’s motorcade: report

President Trump’s aide Natalie Harp has come under the spotlight this week, with multiple reports detailing how she became one of his most trusted supporters.

The executive assistant is often seen by the president’s side, having cultivated a close working relationship since she first came to Trump’s attention in 2019.

Now CNN has unearthed another incident that sheds new light on just how dedicated Harp appears to be.

In October 2023, a year before Trump was re-elected to the White House, Harp reportedly rode in the trunk of an SUV when she could not get a seat in his motorcade.

The billionaire was set to leave Trump Tower for a court hearing in New York City but, according to CNN sources, there was no space for Harp.

As the network tells it, a “screaming match” followed in the lobby as Harp insisted she had been asked by Trump to attend. But with no seat available, she climbed into the trunk, according to the sources and a photograph seen by CNN.

Harp joined Trump’s staff in 2022, having claimed he “saved her life” after she was diagnosed with stage II bone cancer. She hit the headlines earlier this month when it emerged she was one of a small number of aides who were transferred to a military plane in Turkey to avoid a suspected assassination threat by Iran.

One unnamed White House advisor told CNN that Trump “likes the attention and the fact that she is 100 percent committed and loyal.”

“She doesn’t second-guess, doesn’t question,” the advisor said of Harp, who has also reportedly earned the nickname of “human printer” for handing the president hard copies of social media posts and newspaper articles.

But Harp’s brother, a Trump critic, has questioned the dedication she shows the commander-in-chief.

When asked about the trunk report, Preston Harp told CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront: “That’s really funny, I didn’t know about that.

“No, it’ not, I’m sorry, it’s actually sad,” he added. “That’s obsession. That’s like an unhealthy obsession with someone if you’re going to jump into the trunk of their car.”

Harp’s estranged sibling also detailed more about his upbringing with his sister, claiming that his mom believed in American exceptionalism.

“Trump is like everything that my mom taught us to respect,” he said. “I think that’s where her infatuation with Trump comes from, honestly.”

Democratic senator Jon Ossoff drew further attention to Harp this week after suggesting at a rally Trump would rather fly with “Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace” than do his job.

The Trump administration has vociferously defended Harp, with the official Rapid Response 47 account on X tearing into a CNN correspondent who asked the president about the aide.

Harp was described as “one of the most loyal and hardest working aides on President Trump’s team” in a statement by White House spokesman Davis Ingle this week.

And Ossoff, meanwhile, was branded a “radical, extremist Dumocrat” by White House communications director Steven Cheung in a social media response to his speech.