Giggling woman on Trump's surprise TV call sparks wild speculation about Natalie Harp

Which US president are YOU? Take Daily Mail's quiz and find out Published: 08:32 EST, 10 November 2026 | Updated: 09:13 EST, 10 November 2026 A woman’s giggle on Donald Trump’s end of the phone has set off a hunt for her identity, and the president’s critics have pinned it on Natalie Harp, the 35-year-old assistant who rarely leaves his side.The president called in to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Primetime on Monday night. Host Mimi Geerges had just told viewers the White House was on the line when loud laughter from an unidentified woman came through ahead of him.‘Well thank you Mimi and good luck with the show,’ Trump said when he finally spoke, telling the host he had watched her numerous times and that she does a great job.He ignored the laughter completely, and the television host moved on without mentioning it. The clip spread on X within minutes, and speculation from Trump's critics pointed to Harp. ‘Who’s that woman giggling in the background? Is that Natalie?’ asked Republicans Against Trump, the anti-Trump account that pushed the audio out to its followers.X user Brittany Belle told her followers that Trump had randomly called into C-SPAN with a woman giggling behind him, then asked, ‘Can we assume that’s Natalie Harp?’Harp runs Trump’s Truth Social account, types his posts as he dictates them, and is nicknamed the ‘human printer’ for trailing him with a portable printer that feeds him flattering coverage all day long. ‘Is that Natalie Harp giggling in the background or a Chinese Spy,’ wrote liberal influencer Brian Krassenstein. A woman’s giggle on Donald Trump’s end of the phone has set off a hunt for her identity, and the president’s critics have pinned it on Natalie Harp, the 35-year-old assistant who rarely leaves his side The president called in to the premiere of C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Primetime on Monday night Harp runs Trump’s Truth Social account, types his posts as he dictates them, and is nicknamed the ‘human printer’ for trailing him with a portable printer that feeds him flattering coverage all day longThe post landed hours after Trump told reporters that Nvidia boss Jensen Huang had denied knowing the woman he admitted an affair with was suspected of spying for Beijing.The New York Times reported last month that Trump watches television and makes his phone calls from the private dining room off the Oval Office, the same room where space has since been cleared for Harp to work.The Daily Beast published two letters she is said to have written him in 2023, obtained by Trump biographer Michael Wolff and released on Aug. 20.She called Trump her ‘Guardian and Protector in this Life’ in one of them, told him she was unworthy of him, and apologized at length for having upset him on a golfing trip to Scotland.Wolff said staff found the letters tucked into the piles of printouts Harp delivered to Trump and handed them over because her growing role worried them. Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have written that Trump tells people Harp is the only person who loves him as much as his own wife and children do.The White House has dismissed speculation about Harp, calling her one of the most loyal and hardest working aides Trump has. Nobody has confirmed who was laughing, there is nothing on the recording to suggest anything improper took place.