Susie Wiles describes Trump as ‘having an alcoholic personality’ in an interview
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles opened up in an interview with Vanity Fair published Tuesday about members of the Trump administration — including the president himself — who she believes are beyond her control.
President Donald Trump has an “alcoholic personality” and is “active [with] the idea that there is nothing he can do. Nothing, zero, nothing,” Wiles told the magazine, though he later criticized the piece as “ill-conceived.”
“Another clinical psychologist who knows a million times more than I’m going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little expert on big people,” he told Vanity Fair.
Wiles’ father, the late sports broadcaster Pat Summerall, was an alcoholic, and he helped his mother to intervene to help him recover. Summerall had been drunk for 21 years before he died.
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles speaks during a memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium on September 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Vanity Fair also reported that Wiles said that Vice President JD Vance was “the mastermind of the conspiracy for ten years.” The report said he called Vance’s support for Trump — after previously criticizing him — “as a form of politics.”
Chris Whipple, who wrote the story and interviewed Wiles, said he spoke with him in March about the immigration issue.
“I will agree that we should take a closer look at our deportation process,” Wiles told Whipple, who said he did so after the United States deported Venezuelan immigrants from El Salvador. The White House said at the time that they were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua who were living illegally in the US.
“If someone is a member of a known criminal group, and you’re certain, and you can show it, it’s fine to send them to El Salvador or whatever,” Wiles said, according to Whipple. “But if there’s a question, I think our process should be based on double-checking.”
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after addressing the military via video from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Alex Brandon/AP)
Wiles denied Vanity Fair’s reporting in an email to X on Tuesday.
“The article that was published this morning is a piece that was unfairly slaughtered for me and the best President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history. The important context was ignored and much of what I, and others, said about the party and the President was left out of the story. I think, after reading it, that this was done to paint a big and bad mess and our narrative team about his history,” said the President.
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President Donald Trump, and Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, during the Invest America meeting in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC, Monday, June 9, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt added in a statement, “Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped President Trump achieve the most successful first 11 months of any President in American history. President Trump has no greater or more trusted advisor than Susie. The entire administration appreciates her steady leadership and is fully behind her.”
