The media is all a-twitter about the latest scandal – Chief of Staff Susie Wiles dishing on her boss, the President.
Vanity Fair published a swath of interviews Whipple conducted with Wiles in a two-part series Tuesday that raised eyebrows in Washington due to the chief of staff’s unusually candid quotes. Wiles tends to stray from the spotlight, seemingly preferring to carry out her job behind the scenes at the White House.
In the fourth paragraph of the two-part interview, Wiles was quoted as saying Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality,” that Vice President Vance “has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade,” and that Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is a “right wing absolute zealot.” [The Hill]
And after it was published?
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles forcefully pushed back on Vanity Fair’s framing of her interview with author Chris Whipple, calling Tuesday’s sweeping article a “disingenuously framed hit piece” on her, President Trump, the Cabinet, and White House staff.
“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,” Wiles wrote in her first authored post on the social platform X since October 2024.
Followed by sycophancy so honeyed that it makes me gag. But looking over more of her quotes, it just seems like someone lit themselves up and ran around in circles in order to distract from a far more horrendous report – say, the Epstein Files – just getting ready to drop.
Indeed, something like alcoholism, since it’s treated as a disease rather than a personal failing these days, and Trump is a famous teetotaler in any case, actually makes him look better.
And Wiles running around screaming that the media mislead her just seems ingenuous in the extreme.
Don’t get me wrong, this is a story to watch, but keep an eye out for other incidents, reports, and activities that may be of far larger significance in the end.
