By

Olivia Craighead,

a news writer for The Cut who covers pop culture and celebrity.

Previously, she wrote about pop culture and entertainment at Gawker.

There was already an abundance of evidence that Natalie Harp, Donald Trump’s special assistant, is the president’s favorite staffer. She is always by his side, she drafts up his nonsensical Truth Social posts without question, and she was one of the few people he took on his decoy plane out of Turkey when Air Force One was under threat. If for some reason you needed more proof of Harp’s spot in the rankings, how about the fact that she got a ton of cash from the president as a Christmas gift? Forty-five thousand dollars, to be specific.