President Donald Trump is likening Natalie Harp to a "Price is Right" presenter.
"She reminds me like the 'Price is Right'," Trump said as the White House aide walked off the stage at a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska on Monday, Oct. 5, holding the executive order he had just signed.
He continued: "Come on. This perfect person comes up, hands it, walks off. We should go on television with this show, right?"
Watch the moment in the video at the top of this story.
The president, who was campaigning for incumbent Sen. Pete Ricketts and Gov. Jim Pillen ahead of the November midterm elections, called the White House aide to bring an executive order temporarily allowing broader access to tax-free diesel fuel, crucial for trucking and agriculture onto
the stage.
He then teased the audience before taking a dig at former President Joe Biden, saying he's "going to do what Joe Biden couldn't do. Sign his signature."
He signed the order, showed it off to the crowd and then tossed the Sharpie into the cheering audience.
Trump's new executive order defers collection of excise tax on so-called red dye diesel fuel through the end of the year. The fuel is dyed because it is typical for off-road uses such as agriculture and is exempt from federal highway taxes. The president said the order would save truckers an average of $100 each time they fill up and will save farmers millions of dollars.
"The Price is Right," which airs on CBS, is the network television’s number one rated daytime series "and the longest-running game show in television history," according to its website. The show, on which audience members try to win cash and prizes, is hosted by Drew Carey.
The show is known for its slate of models, mostly women, that present the prizes to contestants.
Who is Natalie Harp?
Harp, 34, is Trump's executive assistant and one of the most visible figures in the president's inner circle. A former television presenter for One America News Network, Harp graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2012 and received an MBA from Liberty University in 2015, according to Vanity Fair.
Harp first gained national attention after crediting Trump's "Right to Try" law with helping her access an experimental treatment for bone cancer, according to Forbes. She spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention and later worked on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign before joining the White House as executive assistant at the start of his second term.
Harp nicknamed the 'human printer'
Harp has become known in Trump circles as the "human printer," a nickname tied to her habit of carrying a portable printer and battery pack so she could provide the president with physical copies of information wherever he traveled, according to reporting by The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Network.
She has also been linked in reports to some of Trump's most controversial social media activity through her access to his Truth Social account.
A cancer survivor
Harp is a survivor of bone cancer and has frequently spoken about how the experimental treatment she received under the "Right to Try" program affected her life.
The law, signed by Trump in 2018, allows some terminally ill patients to seek access to treatments that have not yet received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at sshafiq@usatodayco.com and follow her on X and Instagram @saman_shafiq7.
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