US EditionFrom ‘Odd’ Musk to Trump’s ‘Alcoholic Personality’: Key Takeaways From Interviews with US President’s Chief of Staff
Susie Wiles revealed efforts to moderate Trump’s decisions on pardons, tariffs, and political rivalries during his first year back in office, highlighting internal White House tensions.
- Earlier this year, Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, gave 11 interviews to Chris Whipple that Vanity Fair published and The New York Times republished in 2025, revealing she described President Donald Trump as having 'an alcoholic's personality'.
- Ms Wiles tried to restrain President Donald Trump on pardons and payback, urging him not to pardon the most violent January 6th, 2021 rioters and seeking delay on hefty tariffs amid team disagreement.
- Susie Wiles said she was 'initially aghast' at Musk's approach, describing it as 'not the way I would do it' and criticizing the USAID process as 'a good one' in her view.
- Mr Trump seems intent on regime change in Venezuela but lacks congressional authorization, and Susie Wiles said he would need Congress to approve 'land strikes'.
- She described aides including JD Vance 'been a conspiracy theorist' for a decade and Russell Vought 'a right-wing absolute zealot', highlighting a sharp cast around the president, with Vance joking he would give $1,000 to make Rubio look worse.
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From ‘odd’ Musk to ‘painful’ tariffs: key takeaways from interviews with Trump’s chief of staff
Susie Wiles has spoken to Vanity Fair magazine in a series of 11 interviews that she has since dismissed as a ‘hit piece’ The president’s chief of staff Susie Wiles has given her own, unvarnished thoughts about Donald Trump’s administration, in a series of interviews published by Vanity Fair…
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN: Eight years ago, then-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci gave one of the most outspoken and controversial political interviews of all time. Scaramucci made inappropriate remarks about the White House chief strategist and mocked the White House chief of staff, calling him a “paranoid schizophrenic.” The two-part interview that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles gave to Vanity Fair isn’t quite …
Vanity Fair interview may derail prosecution of Trump's enemies: ex-White House staffer
Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor says White House chief of Staff Susie Wiles may have helped build a case against the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).A federal judge has already dismissed indictments against Comey and James in November, and a Virginia grand jury has declined to return a repeat indictment against James. But Trump’s DOJ could continue to pursue repeat indictments…
Trump's Chief Of Staff, CT Native Breaks Silence In Rare Inside Look At Second Term
The White House Chief of Staff made stunningly candid public comments about President Donald Trump's first year back in office during a wide-ranging series of interviews.Vanity Fair published an extensive, two-part profile of Susie Wiles on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Wiles is notably the daughter of Pat Summerall, an iconic NFL play-by-play announcer who called games alongside John Madden on CBS and Fox for more than two decades.Over months of conversati…
Throughout the first year of Donald Trump's second administration, Chris Whipple interviewed Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, at every moment of crisis. His account of the heart of Donald Trump's second term is accompanied by photographs by Christopher Anderson to paint a portrait of power—and peril.
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