From Daily Mail: Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has divulged stunning details about the inner workings of the administration in an explosive new report.
Her wide-ranging interview offers a buffet of insights into those she works closest with, including her ‘junkyard dogs,’ a cadre of powerful Trump lieutenants ready to execute the president’s orders and fight those who stand in opposition.
Wiles, 68, speaking with Vanity Fair over the course of the last year, likened Trump to her own late alcoholic father and legendary sportscaster Pat Summerall, noting the president operates with ‘an alcoholic’s personality.’
The president ‘operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing,’ Wiles added.
Trump, of course, is known to be a teetotaler, famously swearing off all inebriating vices after his older brother, Fred, died due to addiction and alcoholism.
Wiles was also quoted as saying that Vice President JD Vance has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.”
Wiles, the first female chief of staff in history and a powerful figure in the White House, responded after the article was published, calling it a hit piece.
“The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history,” Wiles wrote in an X post. “Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story.”
“I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team,” she continued. “The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other President has accomplished in eight years and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have been honored to work for the better part of a decade.”
“None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of Making America Great Again!” she added.
The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.
Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the…
— Susie Wiles (@SusieWiles) December 16, 2025
Throughout the first year of Donald Trump’s second administration, Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple has interviewed Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, amid each moment of crisis.
His insider’s account of Trump 2.0 joins the photography of Christopher Anderson for a… pic.twitter.com/61Dwohc9g4
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 16, 2025
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