https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-susie-wiles-interview-exclusive-part-1?srsltid=AfmBOorLWCRcByAEnuA2wrKnQ1NvOmQk-m7L-4wTZXAnmg4zKvJK_S4v

This has got some spicy takes…

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles shares, um, surprisingly candid views of the Trump team https://t.co/H8Fz2xX3KO pic.twitter.com/t0xMpnYL0P

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) December 16, 2025

Susie Wiles slams the Elon Musk-led shuttering of USAID (in Vanity Fair):

“No rational person could think the USAID process was a good one. Nobody.” pic.twitter.com/FZEytonrZb

— Alex Ward (@alexbward) December 16, 2025

And the WH is standing behind her…

Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped President Trump achieve the most successful first 11 months in office of any President in American history.

President Trump has no greater or more loyal advisor than Susie.

The entire Administration is grateful for her steady leadership and… https://t.co/Y3NEXI6a1E

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) December 16, 2025

Says a lot.

Specifically how much power Wiles has.

torrid said:

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Me thinks she said too much.

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11 interviews…

1) As for an alcoholic personality, it takes one to know one.

2) If the WH chief of staff gave 11 interviews and didn't see this coming, she is a little naive.

Anyways, Wiles fan here.

I guess the Hegseth, Patel, and Noem pinatas are in the shop getting repaired so now it's on to Susie? Must be a slow day on the talking points distribution.

BusterAg said:

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1) As for an alcoholic personality, it takes one to know one.

2) If the WH chief of staff gave 11 interviews and didn't see this coming, she is a little naive.

Anyways, Wiles fan here.

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You know her father was a severe, I mean very severe, alcoholic. So maybe she knows a bit about it.

Bro, then we can hear the full context. Let us know what it says.

flown-the-coop said:

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BusterAg said:

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1) As for an alcoholic personality, it takes one to know one.

2) If the WH chief of staff gave 11 interviews and didn't see this coming, she is a little naive.

Anyways, Wiles fan here.

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You know her father was a severe, I mean very severe, alcoholic. So maybe she knows a bit about it.

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Yep

Same here. I don't drink and never have. My dad was once really drunk, got mad and kicked me in the gut. I was in the 8th grade. Also in the 8th grade, I put him, a black belt in kung fu, in the hospital.

I know all about alcoholic behavior.

If you read the entire write-up, her comments are nearly as bad as they make her sound.

Shocker...I know.

She makes some criticism, but then explains the context.

Fwiw- I dont know the innerworkings, and all the likely ramifications that she does...but I wholeheartedly disagree with her about USAID, as do most people. Call me irrational if she must, but I'd like to see a whole lot more of that.

From what I know of her, I like her. She seems very no-nonsense.

Trump who doesn't drink has "an alcoholic's personality"

I'm... supposed to care why exactly?

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Comments were surprising, eye opening, and attention grabbing. Almost as if that was the goal of the interview…

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She doesn't seem like a person that makes the type of incredibly dumb rookie mistakes that characterize Kash Patel or Pete Hegseth or Pam Bondi.

So you do have to wonder what she is intending by giving out this information.

Windy City Ag said:

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Trump who doesn't drink has "an alcoholic's personality"

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Alcoholics tend to be impulsive, sensitive, insecure, and easily aggravated. This is likely what she is describing.

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no it's not.

I read the entire article.

she was discussing people with "overly large personalities" when they drink, that it magnifies their essential personality.

she actually was quoted with context.

Her point in context, isn't bad.

LMCane said:

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Why are Trump Administration officials talking with Vanity Fair for a year and having their photos taken like they are a Hollywood movie star?!?!

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cant let bondi or noem go on fox news and get ALL the attention.

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K2-HMFIC said:

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torrid said:

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Me thinks she said too much.

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11 interviews…

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Why are Trump Administration officials talking with Vanity Fair for a year and having their photos taken like they are a Hollywood movie star?!?!

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Because they are all grifting fame-balls, no better than your average desperate-to-be-famous influencer.

K2-HMFIC said:

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Her point in context, isn't bad.

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I agree

none of her points were that bad when you read the entire article

the PROBLEM is that she was spending time with a leftist hack party operative writing for Vanity Fair.

it is just shocking the missteps of Trump the past 48 hours when things had been going so much better than the first Administration!

why is ANYONE from the executive branch talking with a VANITY FAIR REPORTER?!?

much less during work hours from the White House, and for an entire year!!

and you can read Wiles direct quotes- she disagreed on shutting down USAID, and on deporting so many illegals, and on tariffs...and of course they took a shot at "Israel" as well.

K2-HMFIC said:

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Her point in context, isn't bad.

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Yep.

But as this thread demonstrates....most people just react to the dramatized snippets and not the actual/contextual intent.

Trump is a tee-totaler. His brother died of alcoholism.

So what does she mean by having "an alcoholic's personality"?

Incredible amount of trust and access given to Vanity Fair. I truly hope the administration expected this outcome because it is hard to comprehend that they would go along with this and expect a fluff piece.

Jaxson11 said:

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Incredible amount of trust and access given to Vanity Fair. I truly hope the administration expected this outcome because it is hard to comprehend that they would go along with this and expect a fluff piece.

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They were first to notice Trump, a relatively large dude, having small hands.

I wonder how TF they got access, at all.

BadMoonRisin said:

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Trump is a tee-totaler. His brother died of alcoholism.

So what does she mean by having "an alcoholic's personality"?

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" She attributes her ability to work for Mr. Trump to growing up with an alcoholic father, the sportscaster Pat Summerall. "High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink," she said. "And so I'm a little bit of an expert in big personalities." While Mr. Trump does not drink, she said he has "an alcoholic's personality" and operates with "a view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing, zero, nothing.""

This is trump's right-hand woman so I'm sure he was aware of this interview beforehand.

Like most things, I'm sure the truth is somewhere in between her saying a little too much and a news outlet taking her out of context and misconstruing.

About Epstein

In the interviews published by Vanity Fair, Ms. Wiles faulted Ms. Bondi, one of her closest friends in the administration, for her early handling of the Epstein files, an issue that has been a cause clbre for Mr. Trump's right-wing base.

"I think she completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this," Ms. Wiles said. "First, she gave them binders full of nothingness. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn't on her desk." Mr. Vance, by contrast, understood the sensitivity because he himself was "a conspiracy theorist," she said.

Ms. Wiles said she has read the Epstein documents and acknowledged that Mr. Trump's name is in them. "We know he's in the file," she said. "And he's not in the file doing anything awful."
But neither, apparently, is Mr. Clinton. Asked about Mr. Trump's claims going back years that Mr. Clinton had visited the Epstein island, Ms. Wiles said, "There is no evidence." Asked if there was anything incriminating about Mr. Clinton in the files, as Mr. Trump has suggested, she said, "The president was wrong about that."