Wiles Calls Trump a Man With 'an Alcoholic's Personality' in Vanity Fair Interviews; She Denounces Profile as a 'Hit Piece'
Vanity Fair on November 10 published a two-part profile by Chris Whipple based on 11 in-depth, on-the-record interviews with Susie Wiles over the past 11 months. Wiles, the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, resigned from the post on November 6 and was succeeded by Stephen Miller; she has moved to President Donald Trump's political operation. In the interviews she offered unusually blunt assessments of Trump and several senior officials.
On Trump, Wiles said he has "an alcoholic's personality," although the president does not drink. She explained that she meant Trump operates with the conviction that there is nothing he cannot do. Her father, the famed sportscaster Pat Summerall, was an alcoholic whom she helped into recovery. Responding in an interview with the New York Post on Tuesday, Trump said Wiles was right, that he does have an "obsessive and addictive personality," and he defended her.
On the Epstein files, Wiles said Attorney General Pam Bondi "completely whiffed" in appreciating how much conservative social media influencers cared about the files. She acknowledged that she herself had underestimated the potency of the issue. According to the profile, Wiles confirmed that Trump's name appears in files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
On Vice President JD Vance, Wiles called him "a conspiracy theorist for a decade," saying his conversion came when he was running for the Senate and was "a little bit more political."
On Elon Musk, Wiles called him "a complete solo actor" and "an odd duck," and openly noted that he is an avowed ketamine user. She said she was aghast at Musk's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, adding that "no rational person could think the USAID process was a good one."
After the profile appeared, Wiles responded on X on Tuesday, calling it "a disingenuously framed hit piece," saying significant context was disregarded and that it painted "an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team." She did not deny the specific comments attributed to her. Whipple told NPR: "Not a single fact in the piece has been contested." According to the Associated Press, Trump and other administration aides rushed to defend Wiles.
(Source: Vanity Fair)
Source: Vanity Fair
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Photo: 图：前白宫幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯。白宫官方照片，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Official White House photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
