U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime aide Natalie Harp has become a subject of public fascination in August 2026 after news outlets reported that she was one of just a few individuals who accompanied the president on a catering truck smuggled out of Turkey in response to an Iranian assassination threat.
Harp first caught Trump's attention in 2019, when she credited Trump with saving her life because he signed the "Right to Try Act," which she said gave her access to experimental therapies that helped her survive bone cancer. Her reportedly close and unusually devoted relationship to the president has generated various rumors, such as claims that Trump is having an affair with Harp, or that Harp is his hospice nurse.
Here are six rumors we've looked into about the West Wing aide.