Everyone’s been talking about Natalie Harp, but Bill Maher won’t be participating.
The comedian, 70, devoted little airtime to the chatter surrounding President Donald Trump’s adoring aide on Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, citing his costly legal battle with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer in 2024.
Harp, the president’s 35-year-old “human printer,” dominated headlines over the past week after Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff name-dropped her in his remarks at a campaign rally, saying Trump “doesn’t want to do the job” and just “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie.”
The Daily Beast later released two weirdly intimate letters Harp purportedly wrote to Trump, in which she lavished him with praise and expressed her undying devotion to him.
“The Democratic Party has a new attack dog, and he’s very good at it. Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia,” Maher said in his monologue. “He really went after Trump this weekend. And, in the middle of it, he mentioned Natalie Harp. That’s the young lady who works for Trump, when he got on the catering cart, she came with him off the plane.”
“I don’t know why you have to go after her,” he went on. “You know, she seems incredibly devoted to her job, never takes a day off. Sometimes she works so hard, she forgets to eat and sleep. And now everyone in America is saying the same thing, ‘Why can’t I get a millennial who works like that?’”
Harp, a onetime anchor and host for the right-wing news network One America News, earned the moniker “human printer” by following Trump around, fulfilling his every request, including fetching merchandise, performing Google searches, printing stories from right-wing websites, and suggesting possible Truth Social posts. She earns a taxpayer-funded salary of $150,000 a year.
But that was as far as Maher was willing to go in discussing Harp.
“Okay, let me tell you, folks. I got sued about this once,” Maher told the audience. “No. Not the Orangutan. No, this was just a couple years ago. Laura Loomer sued me. I won, by the way. But, it’s expensive and unpleasant to get sued. So, you know, I took one for the team on this – you handle it. All I’m going to say.”
Loomer filed a defamation lawsuit against Maher over a joke he made in 2024 suggesting that she was having an affair with Trump. The suit was tossed out in April by a federal judge who said the remarks were clearly made in jest.
Maher’s defense of Harp quickly spread through the same conservative social media circles dominated by Loomer.
“🚨 BOOM! Bill Maher just rushed to the defense of Donald Trump aide NATALIE HARP against the fake news,” MAGA influencer Eric Daugherty wrote on X. “The left loves attacking women around Trump. She’s a patriot 🇺🇸”
