Trump's Ice Maiden finally cracks: Susie Wiles in frantic damage control after sparking PR disaster for the president
By JON MICHAEL RAASCH, US POLITICAL REPORTER
Published: 13:48 EST, 16 December 2025 | Updated: 18:21 EST, 16 December 2025
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been plunged into a PR nightmare of her own making after she divulged stunning details about Donald Trump and his top team.
Wiles, renowned in Washington for her tact, appears to have made an astonishing slip-up after she revealed that Trump has an 'alcoholic's personality'.
In the wide-ranging interview with Vanity Fair, she branded JD Vance a 'conspiracy theorist', ripped into Pam Bondi over the botched release of the Epstein files, and described Elon Musk as a ketamine-dependent oddball.
The intimate details were released over many months to journalist Chris Whipple who prefaced the piece by stating: 'Most senior White House officials parse their words and speak only on background. But over many on-the-record conversations, Wiles answered almost every question I put to her.'
Despite Wiles' vast experience, she even allowed the journalist to record conversations in the most intimate of settings, including 'while she was doing her laundry in her Washington, DC, rental.'
In a frantic damage-control statement, Wiles wrote on X: 'The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.
'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 added: 'I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team.'
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