Susie Wiles is supposedly a top-notch chief of staff. A former Republican chief told Vanity Fair, “She may be first with no equals,” and possibly the only one who can “direct or channel” Donald Trump’s whims.
So, the load of tea she spilled about Elon Musk, Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi and more in a two-part Vanity Fair article has hit the White House like a tornado.
The biggest takeaways are from this paragraph:
Trump, she told me, “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vance’s conversion from Never Trumper to MAGA acolyte, she said, has been “sort of political.” The vice president, she added, has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” Russell Vought, architect of the notorious Project 2025 and head of the Office of Management and Budget, is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” When I asked her what she thought of Musk reposting a tweet about public sector workers killing millions under Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, she replied: “I think that’s when he’s microdosing.” (She says she doesn’t have first-hand knowledge.)
