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What did Donald Trump say about Natalie Harp at his Nebraska rally, and what was the executive order she was holding? At a rally in Grand Island on Monday 5 October 2026, Trump called his aide on stage to bring an executive order, signed it, then compared her to The Price Is Right. Here is what was said and who Harp is.
The rally took place in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Monday 5 October 2026, where Trump was campaigning for Sen. Pete Ricketts and Gov. Jim Pillen ahead of the November midterm elections. Trump asked Harp to bring him an executive order, signed it in front of the crowd, showed it off and tossed the Sharpie into the audience. As Harp walked off the stage, he said: “She reminds me of The Price Is Right.” He added: “This perfect person comes up, hands it, walks off.” The Price Is Right is a game show on which models show off prizes.
The executive order Harp handed him defers collection of the federal excise tax on red-dyed diesel fuel through the end of the year, USA Today reports. That fuel is used in trucking and agriculture. The order is the practical consequence of the rally, and the reaction to Trump’s remark has been a separate story.
Kimmel’s response
Jimmy Kimmel played footage in slow motion of Trump turning around and gazing at Harp, and joked about it on his late-night show, according to reports of the monologue.
Who is Natalie Harp and what is her role with Donald Trump? Harp, 35, is executive assistant to the president, her official White House title, according to the BBC. She is known as the “Human Printer” for handing Trump printed social media posts and news clippings, and she is trusted with typing out his Truth Social posts. She rose to fame crediting Trump’s Right to Try Act for her bone cancer treatment, an account Snopes said it could not independently verify.
The Right to Try Act, signed in May 2018, lets some patients with life-threatening diseases access investigational drugs outside the FDA’s usual expanded-access process. Harp’s account of her treatment is based on her own writing and speeches in 2019 and 2020, Snopes says.
At a Grand Island rally on 5 October, Trump signed an executive order deferring the excise tax on red-dyed diesel through the end of the year. He then compared Harp to The Price Is Right. Kimmel responded with a slow-motion clip.
