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Trump’s current Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the Trump admin: —Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” —Vance has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” —Musk is “an avowed ketamine [user].” —Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” —Bondi “completely whiffed” the Epstein Files.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended White House chief of staff Susie Wiles after she told a reporter that Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality.”
![Trump’s current Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the Trump admin: —Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” —Vance has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” —Musk is “an avowed ketamine [user].” —Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” —Bondi “completely whiffed” the Epstein Files.](http://usafly24.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/images-32.jpeg)
Trump, in an interview with the New York Post, said he stood by Wiles after Vanity Fair published her surprisingly candid — and occasionally critical — remarks about the administration from a series of interviews this year.
Oh, she’s fantastic,” Trump said.
Wiles, a spotlight-averse figure who enjoys unparalleled influence and power in Trump’s orbit, offered blunt descriptions of many of the administration’s highest-profile officials over 11 interviews with Vanity Fair’s Chris Whipple.
Wiles — the daughter of former New York Giants kicker and NFL broadcaster Pat Summerall, who is described by Vanity Fair as an alcoholic and an absentee parent — told Whipple her difficult upbringing made her “a little bit of an expert in big personalities.”
Trump does not drink, but he has “an alcoholic’s personality” in that he “operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do,” Wiles said. “Nothing, zero, nothing.”
In his interview with the Post, Trump said Wiles “meant that I’m — you see, I don’t drink alcohol. So everybody knows that — but I’ve often said that if I did, I’d have a very good chance of being an alcoholic.”
“I have said that many times about myself, I do. It’s a very possessive personality,” Trump said.
“I’ve said that many times about myself. I’m fortunate I’m not a drinker. If I did, I could very well, because I’ve said that — what’s the word? Not possessive — possessive and addictive type personality,” the president said. “Oh, I’ve said it many times, many times before.”
Wiles, and much of Trump’s Cabinet, had already pushed back on the Vanity Fair articles.
In an X post, Wiles called them “a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”
“Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story. I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team,” she wrote.
She added that she has been “honored” to work for Trump for nearly a decade, and declared, “None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of Making America Great Again!”
