The Chief of Staff's unexpected statement about Trump: "The personality of an alcoholic"

Albin Almqvist

Published 19.59

 

Donald Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP

Donald Trump has an "alcoholic personality".

The president's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, says this in a well-received interview with Vanity Fair.

Now she is trying to retract the statement.

As the first year of Trump's second term draws to a close, several long and exclusive interviews with the president's closest associates are being published in Vanity Fair. Behind the interviews is author Chris Whipple, who has had the opportunity to get close to the otherwise elusive gang in the past year.

One of the main figures is Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The woman who has often been singled out as a key person in Trump's staff. Trump himself has called Wiles “the most powerful woman in the world” and for her coldness she has been nicknamed “the ice lady” by the president.

And she does not hold back in the interview with Vanity Fair. Several statements have raised eyebrows among both Democrats and Republicans.

Described as vengeful

Among other things, Wiles says that the president has “the personality of an alcoholic”, even though Trump is sober. The chief of staff herself grew up with an alcoholic father and believes that alcoholics’ personalities become even bigger when they drink.

“So I am a bit of an expert on big personalities”, she adds.

She also describes the president as a very vengeful person and believes that many of his decisions during his second term were driven by a desire for revenge.

“The ice lady” also suggested that Trump was trying to bring about a change of power in Venezuela through his attacks on alleged drug boats in the Pacific. Something that goes directly against the official explanations for the attacks.

“Angled attack”

But since the statements have taken on their own legs, Wiles has done everything she can to dampen the reactions.

On Tuesday, she went on X and wrote that her words were taken out of context and called the article a “hit piece”.

“The article published this morning is a dishonestly angled attack on me, the greatest president, administration and government in history,” Wiles wrote and continued:

“Important context was ignored and much of what I and others said about the team and the president was left out of the article. After reading it, I assume that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative picture of the president and our team.”