Trump : concurs with Chief of Staff Wiles’ assessment that he has a “alcoholic’s personality.”
Trump: New York, US President Donald Trump, who strictly abstains from alcohol, has agreed with his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s assessment that he has a “alcoholic’s personality,” which they both interpret favorably as a single-minded pursuit of goals.
He dismissed her incendiary claims against him and his administration on Tuesday, saying, “I’ve said that many times about myself.”
“I’m lucky that I don’t drink. I could definitely do so if I did, because I’ve mentioned that — what’s the word? In an interview with the New York Post after the publication of her intimate remarks, Trump said, “Not possessive — possessive and addictive type personality.”
Trump, who had four chiefs of staff during his first term, with the first, Reince Priebus, serving for little over six months, seemed to be endorsing Wiles.
Vice President JD Vance was among the other Trump administration officials who came together to support her.
He has “an alcoholic’s personality,” according to Wiles in her talks with Vanity Fair, but she put a positive spin by saying that he “operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do.” Nothing, nothing, nothing.
“Some clinical psychologist who knows a million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say,” she said, elaborating on her diagnosis. However, when they drink, high-functioning alcoholics—or alcoholics in general—exaggerate their personalities. I am thus something of an authority on large personalities.
According to media accounts, she was active in family attempts to help her alcoholic father, sports writer Pat Summerall, quit drinking. That might be a reference to him.
She described the stories as “an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team” in her post on X.
Although Wiles, the most influential woman in the Trump administration with a cabinet position, acknowledged that “significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story,” she did not contest the veracity of the comments in the Vanity Fair stories.
Giving such an open, on-the-record interview while still in office was uncommon for a chief of staff, or even a high-ranking officer.
She has a distinct viewpoint on those involved in politics and government since she is the administrative official closest to the president.
“Susie and I have joked in private and in public about that for a long time,” Vance told reporters after Wiles referred to him as “a conspiracy theorist.”
He said, “But I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true.”
FBI Director Kash Patel was commended by Wiles for his political savvy in recognizing the significance of making public the records of convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, a multimillionaire investment manager with links to several prominent figures in politics, business, and entertainment.
“Kash and [FBI Deputy Director] Dan Bongino really understood how big of a deal this is because they lived in that world” of Trump’s supporters, she added.
She said that Patel’s “thought was in these files that turns out not to be right” was incorrect.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files problem was criticized by Wiles, who said that she “whiffed it.”
She “fights every day to advance President Trump’s agenda – and she does so with grace, loyalty, and historic effectiveness,” Bondi stated in support of Wiles.
Additionally, Wiles refuted Trump’s assertion that former President Bill Clinton had been to Epstein’s infamous island, which has been the location of sex abuse and criminal pedophilia.
She said, “The president was wrong about that.”
Although Clinton has not been connected to any wrongdoing, he has been seen in photos with Epstein and in his private plane’s flight records.