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Katie Miller Joins Trump's Inner Circle Without a Title

A woman laughed, then the president came on the line on live television. The few people that close to Donald Trump now decide who else reaches him, Cabinet secretaries included.

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Zev Shalev
Nov 13, 2026
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A woman laughed on the line. Then Donald Trump came on the air.

It happened shortly after 9 p.m. Monday on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal Prime Time." Host Mimi Geerges announced a call from the White House, the laugh came through, and the president started talking. Nobody on air said who she was. The Daily Beast asked the White House and reported no answer. Social media guessed Natalie Harp, Trump's executive assistant. Nobody has confirmed it.

Whoever she was, she was on the line before the president was. Very few people still get that close.

Stephen Miller became chief of staff on Monday. Harp is the assistant who screens Trump’s calls, Andrew Feinberg of The Independent wrote on Nov. 4. An aide runs the president’s social media. And the circle has a new member: Katie Miller, who holds no official power title, but wields enormous power.

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