The second Trump administration has long seemed like an even more fragile house of cards than the first.
By surrounding himself only with loyalists, Trump abandoned any pretense of potential administrative jurisdiction for the first presidential administration in American history that functions like a royal court.
Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House chief of staff, has done a good job of keeping a low profile, which is a necessary skill for anyone serving as Trump’s chief of staff. The chief of staff fails to attract too much attention or appear to have control over Trump.
We didn’t know Wiles was giving 11 interviews to Vanity Fair for an article about people in the second Trump administration.
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Both parts of the profile contain a ton of information, which has sent the White House into frantic damage control.
The reputation is so bad that the White House has asked every cabinet member to issue a statement in support of Susie Wiles.
Here’s what Trump’s chief of staff had to say about members of the administration:
We often talked on Sundays after church. Wiles, an Episcopalian, calls herself a “light Catholic.” We once spoke while she was doing laundry at her rental in Washington, DC. Trump, she told me, “has the personality of an alcoholic.” Vance’s conversion from Never Trumper to MAGA acolyte, she said, was “sort of political.” The vice president, she added, has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” Russell Vought, architect of the famous Project 2025 and head of the Office of Management and Budget, is “an absolute right-wing fanatic.” When I asked her what she thought about Musk reposting a tweet about public sector workers who killed millions under Hitler, Stalin and Mao, she replied: “I think that’s when he’s microdosing.” »
The frank assessments from Trump and others weren’t the worst.
Wiles destroyed the coverage of Trump’s Epstein files in the most damaging way possible.
Read what Wiles had to say about Trump and the Epstein files below.