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In 2018, we were horrified and delighted to learn that Trump was receiving printouts of his Twitter mentions and writing down his confused responses in Sharpie for a 24-year-old social media manager to post. This week we got new insight into the evolution of the president-elect’s crazy social media activity. According to New York JustNatalie Harp – a 33-year-old employee who has been dubbed his “human printer” by her colleagues – reportedly feeds him an unfiltered stream of conspiracy theories and publishes his Truth Social dictates without thinking about them.

Harp and Trump’s paths first crossed in 2019 when she appeared on Fox News to thank him for saving her life by signing the Right to Try Act that gave her hers opinion provided access to experimental treatments for bone cancer. (It’s unclear what treatments were involved, and some experts claimed that Harp received treatments that were permitted long before Trump’s right-to-trial law.) She then spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention. She spent the She spent the next two years promoting conspiracy theories about the election being stolen as host of the far-right cable news channel One America News before joining his staff in 2022, and she has apparently been a fixture on his staff ever since Page.

According to the Justwho spoke to a few half-dozen anonymous insiders, Harp’s main job is to pass along unverified, mostly flattering messages to Trump, much of it from Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for spreading conspiracy theories and hoaxes. During his campaign, she apparently gave him printouts of these articles by following him around with a portable printer and a battery pack – hence her humble nickname. Apparently also part of Harp’s unofficial job description: to enable Trump’s most impulsive social media habits by dictating his Truth Social tirades. She is said to have helped him trigger angry text messages to donors, chaotic retweets and other classic Trump decisions that sent his lawyers into a panic.

But Harp’s greatest strength in Trumpworld appears to be an alarming level of devotion to her boss. During one of Trump’s golf outings, she reportedly jogged behind his car and kept him updated with positive messages and social media posts. In return, he apparently calls her “sweetie” and treats her like a daughter (well, especially given the way Trump talks about his actual daughters). Over the years, their relationship has only gotten stranger – last year Just claims she sent Trump a series of letters in which she called him her “guardian and protector in this life” and wrote, “You are all that matters to me” and “I never want to let you down.”

Trump’s transition team declined to make Harp available Just For a job interview, of course. Anonymous sources close to him believe that if she follows him to the White House, she will continue to provide a “largely unsupervised flow of information” while enabling his most chaotic impulses. Sounds like a very stable workplace scenario that will certainly lead to good, clear solutions for everyone. I hope some Lifetime writers are watching!