US President Donald Trump's aide Natalie Harp steps off Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on August 14, 2026. Trump is on his way to Garden City, New York to speak at the Nassau County Police Academy Center for Training and Intelligence before continuing to Bedminster, New Jersey, to spend the weekend at his golf club. (Credit: Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)
A White House aide most Americans couldn't have named a week ago is now a fixture on cable news. Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump's executive assistant, was pulled into the open after Georgia's Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff invoked her by name while attacking the president, setting off a bitter back-and-forth between his campaign and the White House and reviving old questions about just how much sway she holds inside Trump's orbit.
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