The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, delivered a series of unusually candid and at times unflattering assessments of Donald Trump, his second-term agenda and some of his closest allies in a series of wide-ranging interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.
Across more than 10 interviews, Wiles spoke frankly about working for Trump, saying the president “has an alcoholic’s personality,” despite being known as a teetotaler.
She acknowledged the president’s appetite for revenge, conceding many of his second-term actions were driven by a desire for retribution.
Wiles suggested Trump was pursuing regime change in Venezuela through his boat-bombing campaign, contradicting official justifications for the strikes. And she described several controversial areas where the president ignored her advice, including on deportations and pardons.
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 236d
This is from the original article. She is a POS and helped kill millions of people. Is she seeing the writing on the wall and trying to get a job for someone else? She's not dumb, just evil.
Edit: She helped pick these evil, fucked up, stupid people. She is evil herself. Thank you Vanity Fair for publishing this:
Sunforged@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 236d
This isn't just a one time interview. This is a series of interviews (I think I read 11) spanning the last 12 months. She legit thinks everything happening is perfectly reasonable.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 236d
But she's smart enough to get DeSantis elected and she's kind of implying that when DeSantis kicked her ass on the way of booting her is the reason he's not doing better. She's saying she's awesome and she will support and cover for anything the president decides. So, she's lying or she really does have that power. She's the Chief of Staff, I think she's not lying.
Sunforged@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 236d
She definitely seems to be the reason there is more internal cohesion than his first term. Still chaotic but outside of the Musk infighting it feels much different from the outside looking in.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 236d
They also know they're deporting US citizens and they're kind of just oopsies:
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 236d
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 235d
While I'm not sure I agree with everything you said, you're right that Trump only serves as the useful idiot. If you want to know what's in store for him, just look what happened to Boris Yeltsin.
postcapitalism@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 235d
This is the insight I came looking for.
Don’t fully track the finer points, eg. & IMO more likely to be a push towards the autocratic stewards managing Trump as a lame duck tainted by the Epstein scandal and policy backlash going into 2026. But yeah… tracks generally
Thanks for the thoughts
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 235d
Very insightful ChunkMcHorkle.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 236d
She looks like that lady from Harry Potter
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 236d
Ex-chief of staff in 3, 2, ...
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 236d
No, he likes her. She'll just scoff, and tell him it's fake news, and he'll buy it. He's an idiot, and she knows how to work him.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 236d
I fucking hope so, the article is saying that she gets his agendas done.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 12 pts · 236d
If my boss made corruption, retribution and personal revenge the main driver of his policy decisions, I would not gleefully continue as his employee while making excuses for his abusive practices because I'm not a complete piece of shit.
chromeleon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 236d
njm1314@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 236d
Just the other day I was thinking about how rare it is to hear from her. Which is really bizarre she's the chief of staff. That's a position some people refer to as the co-president. That's how powerful it is. Yet we so rarely hear from her. I'm not sure if it's just because she's good at keeping her head down and nose clean or if Trump is so easy to manipulate that others have so much more power than a normal Administration. Or some combination of the two.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
Does he listen to her about anything? It sounds like she's disagreed on every single major decision.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
Sounds like in puff pieces after the fact maybe.
A_A@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 236d
🍿 Let the monsters fight each other
Almacca@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 235d
Her name is Wiles? [suspicious look]