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.

  • postcapitalism@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    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