Behind every one of Donald Trump's most controversial Truth Social posts stands one person - 34-year-old Natalie Harp, the president's direct aide. Inside the White House they call her "the human printer." The nickname is literal - she brings physical printouts from social media and lays them in front of Trump.

The system works like this. Harp collects screenshots - compliments to the president, conspiracy theories, attacks on Democrats, insults of political rivals. She prints them on paper. She gives them to Trump. He approves. She then logs into his Truth Social account and posts. Often outside working hours, on weekends, on holidays.

The White House itself has confirmed that Trump sometimes posts on his own. But for the most problematic posts - for example the AI-generated picture of Trump as Jesus Christ, or the video with racist content showing former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as primates - sources confirmed it was Harp who posted them, on Trump's orders.

White House press director Steven Cheung declined to comment directly. Instead he replied with: "Truth Social has never been more popular." The sentence is not an answer to the question - it is a way to dodge it.

Harp has worked for Trump since 2022. She first became a public figure at the Republican convention in 2020, when she credited Trump's health policies with saving her life after bone cancer. Experts later disputed that the chronology fit the actual impact of those policies - but that never blocked her career.

She earned the "human printer" nickname through unusual dedication. She has carried a laptop - and sometimes a literal physical printer - to the golf courses where Trump plays, to show him flattering articles or posts when he is bored. Ronny Jackson, congressman and former White House physician, praised her in 2024 - "she keeps the president's morale high."

Among Trump insiders, Harp's devotion causes mild bewilderment. According to The New York Times, she sent him letters in which she calls him "my protector and my guardian," writing in one sentence: "You are all that matters to me." In another letter she wrote of the hope of returning to the old way of relating, when "we talked about everything and nothing."

For Balkan readers, the story carries an interesting angle. When in a political ecosystem there is one person whose function is to be the "printer" for the leader's impulses, that means the institutions around him are already cracked. The question is - is Natalie Harp a symptom, or a diagnosis? The answer probably depends on how soon or how late the second four years of Trump end.