--- title: "Trump Has an Aide Who Follows Him Around With a Wireless Printer to Print Out “Good News From the Internet”" description: "Former president Donald Trump hired former One America News host Natalie Harp as a personal messenger of only positive news." date: "2024-04-16" modified: "2024-04-16" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-aide-wireless-printer-good-news" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "donald trump" - "the digest" --- # Trump Has an Aide Who Follows Him Around With a Wireless Printer to Print Out “Good News From the Internet” ![Former president Donald Trump hired former One America News host Natalie Harp as a personal messenger of only positive news.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## Extra! Extra! This week, as the [Stormy Daniels hush money trial]() kicked off, *New York Times* reporter Maggie Haberman [noted the presence of a figure]() in court whose job responsibility sounded like a joke, writing that her job was to carry around a "wireless printer" to provide the former president with an "ongoing stream of good news from the internet." But it turns out that the aide is very real. Her name is Natalie Harp, a former *One America News* anchor who joined Trump's communications team in March 2022. According to [reporting that year by the *Washington Post*](), Harp would even accompany the former reality TV host on golf trips in a cart "equipped with a laptop and sometimes a printer to show him uplifting news articles, online posts, or other materials." In Trump's chaotic inner circle, nothing is really surprising anymore — but an employee tasked with printing out good news for the tech-phobic former head of state might just take the cake for an unintentional character study. ## Harpo Marx Per *WaPo*, other aides were tasked with asking Trump's allies to call him and "boost his spirits with positive affirmations." Harp has an unusual relationship with Trump, arguing that he [saved her life]() by approving an immunotherapy drug that reportedly allowed her to survive a rare form of cancer. However, experts have maintained that Trump's "Right-to-Try" law, which greenlit a number of drug treatments, was nothing more than smoke and mirrors. "The FDA already had a process that approved more than 90 percent of people who wanted access to these drugs and treatments," former top FDA official Peter Lurie [told *WaPo*]() back in 2020. Harp's two years close to Trump's side must've been a real rollercoaster. Over just a five-month span, Trump was [charged in four criminal cases](), ranging from falsifying business records to election interference. Today, jury selection continues in a case accusing Trump of trying to cover up a $130,000 payment he made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels at the end of 2016 to prevent her from saying she'd had sex with him a decade previously. In short, it's a sad state of affairs — made even more depressing by the existence of an assistant whose role it is to print out good news on a golf course. **More on Trump:** *[Truth Social Stock Crashes as Donald Trump Maneuvers to Sell His Own Shares]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()