Key keywords: Donald Trump, Walt Nauta, 34-year-old Trump aide, Trump personal loyal notes, 2024 presidential campaign, White House exposé book, Trump inner circle, classified documents case, Mar-a-Lago staff A new bombshell book focusing on the inner workings of Donald Trump’s post-White House political operation has revealed that his long-time 34-year-old personal aide Walt Nauta regularly left handwritten, affectionately worded notes for the former president to boost his morale, including the frequently used line “You are all that matters.” Nauta, a Guam-born former U.S. Navy steward who first joined Trump’s White House staff in 2018, left federal service shortly after Trump’s 2020 election defeat to join the former president’s team at Mar-a-Lago, and now serves as his top personal assistant for the 2024 Republican presidential campaign. The as-yet unreleased book, written by two award-winning political journalists who spent more than two years interviewing 47 current and former members of Trump’s inner circle, documents that Nauta would tuck the short, loving notes into places Trump was guaranteed to find them: next to his breakfast plate at Mar-a-Lago, inside the folder holding his daily campaign schedule, or in the pocket of the suit he was set to wear for court appearances or campaign rallies. Other lines included in the notes are “Every single person on this team exists to support you,” “We are all behind you 100% no matter what,” and “No one works harder for this country than you do.” Multiple former staffers quoted in the book confirmed that the notes were a regular part of Nauta’s efforts to keep Trump in high spirits, particularly during periods of legal stress, including the multiple indictments Trump faced throughout 2023 and 2024. Nauta himself is a co-defendant with Trump in the federal classified documents case, where he is charged with lying to federal investigators and helping to move boxes of sensitive materials at Mar-a-Lago to avoid being found by federal officials. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and has repeatedly refused to cooperate with prosecutors against Trump, a choice that legal analysts say is rooted in his deep personal loyalty to the former president. The book’s authors note that Nauta’s consistent displays of personal devotion have made him one of the very few members of Trump’s staff who has never fallen out of favor, even as dozens of other high-profile aides have been fired or publicly criticized by Trump over the past eight years. “There are almost no people left who have been with Trump as long as Nauta has, without having some kind of falling out,” one former senior campaign aide told the book’s authors. “Trump trusts him more than almost anyone else in his orbit, and that’s entirely because Nauta has made it clear from day one that his loyalty is to Trump, and Trump alone.”