In a series of interviews published Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, Susie Wiles, Donald Trump’s current chief of staff, offers a critical, though not confrontational, portrait of the former president and key figures in his political circle.
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The statements are part of a piece compiled from ten interviews with journalist Chris Whipple, in which Wiles breaks her usual low profile to address sensitive issues concerning the Trump administration and his inner circle.
The chief of staff describes Trump as having “the personality of an alcoholic,” despite not drinking alcohol herself. “Some clinical psychologist who knows a million times more than I do will probably disagree with what I’m about to say. But functional alcoholics, or alcoholics in general, have personalities that are exacerbated when they drink.
And in that sense, I’m somewhat of an expert on strong personalities (…) Trump has the personality of an alcoholic (…) and acts with the conviction that there is nothing he can’t do. Nothing, absolutely nothing,” she stated.
Although she doesn’t position herself as a counterweight to the former president, Wiles acknowledges errors in his administration’s management, such as the deportations of immigrants without adequate due process.
Wiles, now Trump’s chief of staff, breaks her silence with candid views on the former president, his allies, and the controversies shaping their legacy. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images).
She also reveals that she advocated against pardoning the most violent assailants of the Capitol on January 6, but her position was ignored.
Her role, she explains, has been to facilitate Trump’s will, even when she unsuccessfully tried to get him to stop using his office to “settle scores” with his enemies.
“We reached an informal agreement for him to move on from his obsessions after three months in the White House, but it didn’t work,” she recounts. “It’s not that Trump is constantly thinking about revenge, but when the opportunity arises, he takes it.”
Susie Wiles, “The Ice Maiden”
That’s how Donald Trump introduced her during his election night speech in Palm Beach, Florida, referring to her as “The Ice Maiden” and noting that “she likes to stay a little bit in the background.”
In a statement, he highlighted Wiles’s crucial role in his 2024 election victory, calling her “tough, smart, innovative, and universally admired and respected.” He also expressed that it will be “a well-deserved honor to have Susie as the first female Chief of Staff in American history.”
Descriptive Adjectives Broaden Her Scope
The advisor, highly respected in Republican circles, especially in Florida, also speaks harshly of Vice President J.D. Vance, whom he calls a political opportunist.
Wiles recalls that Vance was a fierce critic of Trump before becoming his defender by running for Senate. He also describes him as “a conspiracy theorist for a decade,” in a negative context linked to the Epstein case.
In that context, he criticizes Trump for having insisted on linking Bill Clinton to visits to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island without evidence, calling the claim erroneous or false.
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The target of his harshest criticism is Elon Musk, whom he calls “a completely lone actor” and compares to “a kind of hyperactive Nosferatu.” Wiles points out that Musk, at the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), dismantled agencies and fired thousands of employees without any criteria or coordination with the White House.
“The challenge with Elon is keeping up with him. He is an avowed ketamine user. And he sleeps in a sleeping bag in the Executive Office Building during the day,” he says.
Furthermore, she suggests that at certain times Musk may have been consuming microdoses of psychoactive substances, which would explain some of his most controversial tweets.
Regarding the handling of the Epstein case, Wiles directly blames Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump’s former personal lawyer.
“I think she completely failed to appreciate that this was precisely the group that cared about this issue,” she comments, referring to the MAGA movement’s base.
“First, she handed them folders full of irrelevant information. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no such client list, and it certainly wasn’t on her desk,” she criticizes.
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