Natalie Harp Received $45,000 Cash Gift From Trump Worth 30% of Her White House Salary, Financial Disclosures Show

Donald Trump quietly handed executive assistant Natalie Harp a holiday cash gift of about £33,200 ($45,000) – roughly 30 per cent of her £110,700 ($150,000) White House salary – according to financial disclosure forms released by his administration last week.

The disclosures show Harp was one of four White House aides who received cash gifts from Trump. Communications adviser Margo Martin and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain Harris each received the same £33,200 ($45,000) amount, while Oval Office operations director Walt Nauta disclosed a gift of about £14,800 ($20,000).

Natalie Harp Gift Appears in Annual Disclosures

The payments were listed in the aides' annual financial disclosure forms, which identified Trump as the source of the holiday gifts. Harp, Martin and Harris each earn about £110,700 ($150,000) a year, while Nauta is paid roughly £129,100 ($175,000), according to the White House salary disclosure report to Congress.

Taken together, the three £33,200 ($45,000) gifts to Harp, Martin and Harris amounted to about £99,600 ($135,000). The disclosures did not establish whether other White House employees received similar gifts.

A White House official said Trump 'has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit, including at times employees and aides, both in government and in his time in the private sector'. The White House said the gifts were permissible under relevant legal and ethical standards.

Natalie Harp Remains a Close White House Aide

Harp joined Trump's team in 2022 after working as a host for One America News. She now works closely with the president and is frequently seen carrying a portable printer, which she uses to provide him with paper copies of news coverage and social media posts.

That routine has led to the nickname 'human printer'. Trump is described as preferring to read important material on paper rather than on a screen, and Harp has become a regular presence alongside him.

Her relationship with Trump also drew attention in August after Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff referred to her at a rally while criticising the president.

The supplied reports also state that Harp was among a small group of aides who accompanied Trump when he secretly transferred from Air Force One to another military aircraft in Turkey because of a potential Iranian assassination threat.

Personal letters attributed to Harp have also been reported. In one 2023 letter, she wrote to Trump, 'You are all that matters to me.' Another described him as her 'Guardian and Protector in this Life.'

According to Haberman and Swan's account, Trump also told staffers, 'All of you will go off and make money ... she'll never leave me.'

Natalie Harp Was Not the Only Recipient

Martin has worked for Trump since his first administration. She began as a White House press assistant, later moved to Palm Beach, Florida, to help with his media operation after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and returned to the White House after Trump's 2024 election victory.

Harris serves as an executive assistant to Trump and deputy director of Oval Office operations. Earlier this year, Trump appointed her to the US Commission of Fine Arts, which has oversight of the president's White House ballroom project.

Nauta, a former Trump valet, disclosed the smaller £14,800 ($20,000) holiday gift. He and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira were charged in 2023 with conspiring with Trump to obstruct an FBI investigation into classified documents Trump took with him after leaving the White House following his first term.

A federal judge dismissed the indictment in July 2024. Prosecutors appealed the dismissal, but the Justice Department later dropped its remaining appeal concerning Nauta and De Oliveira, which the federal appeals court formally dismissed in February 2025.