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.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    She’s doing this because there’s about to be a regime change.

    Understand that the people who carried him into power weren’t doing so because they wanted gilded Trump-branded truck nuts. They did it because Trump was just the demagogue whose popularity they would ride in on, after which they would consolidate power, turn the goverment into an authoritarian state, and transform the US into the company store.

    But that’s not what’s happened. Trump never got the military into line, and now his administration, and those backing it, are losing power faster than those behind him can consolidate it in order to remain in power.

    They are the ones who selected the couchfucker as VP, and as Speaker of the House a man so personally, intellectually, and morally weak he has to have his teenage son monitor his porn usage. And they did so not in spite of their vacuous characters but because of it: these and others will meekly fall in line when the transition comes.

    Also, they own the media. You’re not hearing about this from Trump’s own chief of staff because it got leaked; you’re hearing about it because they WANT it out there. Susie Wiles, House Republicans, even Fox News: they haven’t found their spines. This is them taking orders like any other Tuesday. And this was always the plan, IMO.

    For example, the two-part Vanity Fair piece that the CNN article above references to make its case is a series of interviews with Susie Wiles that took place over the entire span of 2025, from just before inauguration to just before publication. (Part 1, archive; Part 2, archive)

    Susie Wiles is not stupid, just evil. And Vanity Fair absolutely does the bidding of the rich and powerful in exchange for access, something Epstein himself used to his own advantage back in the day by having any mention of his own sexual misbehavior removed from a piece in the early oughts after threatening the author directly and then convincing Graydon Carter to have it pulled when she didn’t back down.

    So if you’re Susie Wiles, hired by Trump but actually working for the Leonard Leo crowd, and you already know from before Day 1 that part of your job is to prepare for the day Trump is gone, sooner rather than later, what better way to do it than with Vanity Fair? She simply built a history and kept it from release, adding to it now and again until it was needed, and then gave the go-ahead to publish.

    I think it’s safe to say that someone is about to rid the US of a turbulent priest, and this open disrespect to the asshole they rode into power is the buildup to that removal, so that they look like heroes when they finally do it, so that everyone can just heave a sigh of relief while they continue to dismantle the government and any remaining shreds of democracy itself.

    And if that all seems coincidental, look at how many problems just GO AWAY if and when Trump does. The Epstein files cease to matter, for example, and all his fake promises like “affordability” are no longer binding. In other words, all the issues that are now slicing away parts of the MAGA core every time they are mentioned publicly simply go away with Trump himself.

    They are simply betting they can cheat and rig and stay in power in 2026 without Trump, without MAGA, and maybe even win MAGA back. It’s a long shot, but I bet back in January he wouldn’t last the year for this exact reason: they never intended to keep him anyway, he was just their ticket into the Oval Office. I’m still looking at winning that bet.

    EDITED TO ADD: Note especially the complete lack of pushback from everyone Wiles throws under the bus: Trump himself, Karoline Leavitt, Pam Bondi, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, everyone she names is either completely supporting her despite the viciousness of her comments or remaining entirely silent.

    Since when do these precious snowflakes bear insult with silence? Take criticism with grace?

    Since never. If this were a legit grassroots rebellion against Trump, they’d be sniping each other and exchanging barbs on social media, and Trump would be calling Susie Wiles a TRAITOR! on his platform, and it would be getting wild. We already saw that with Elon Musk this summer. These cowardly chucklefucks think words are war and behave accordingly.

    But now they’re all silent, including Trump himself, meaning this is all part of the plan. It’s not real dissent, it’s dissent in lockstep via the media they own. They’re already campaigning for the next guy, magnifying the current administration’s faults so as to frame his replacement as the solution to all these ills.

    TL;DR: Because this is such an obviously coordinated effort, and specifically highlights the punching points they’d find it easy to defend as opposed to getting into the weeds on the real problems (immigration, economy, Epstein) I’d say that Trump is about to resign in favor of Vance.

    EDITED TO ADD UPDATE: Trump has scheduled a “national speech” for tomorrow night at 9pm.

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      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.

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      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