Natalie Harp drove Trump’s overnight Truth Social posts
Natalie Harp, Donald Trump’s 34-year-old executive assistant, was behind his overnight Truth Social sprees, according to reporting published Tuesday. Harp worked twilight-hour shifts, supplied the president with stacks of printed-out drafts, and waited for his approval before posts went live.
Trump Truth Social drafts
The reporting said Harp did not share her drafts with anyone else in the White House besides the president. Harp said she works for Trump and only Trump, while White House communications director Steven Cheung said Trump’s reliance on Truth Social is his primary mode of communication with the American people.
Cheung also said, "Truth Social has never been hotter, and it’s because President Trump offers his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context". He added, "We don’t discuss internal deliberations of how the process works, but no other social-media tool has been more effective than Truth."
Backlash over Trump posts
The reported drafting role covered posts depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ. Trump took down both posts after they spurred immense public backlash, and a White House official blamed the Obama video mistake on an editing error.
The reporting also said Harp’s work included posts with baseless conspiracies about the 2020 presidential election and headlines about Trump’s popularity. Those posts drew tensions with some federal employees affected by her writing, including the chief of staff’s office.
White House tensions
Harp’s role matters because it places a single aide between Trump and the material posted from his account, while the chief of staff’s office has already felt the strain of that arrangement. Sebastian Gorka, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Alex Marlow were named in the reporting as part of the broader cast around the story.
What comes next is the White House’s handling of the posting process itself. Cheung declined to comment on how the office crafts Trump’s Truth Social posts, leaving Harp’s direct gatekeeping role as the key reported fact shaping the account.
