Trump has ‘alcoholic’s personality’: chief of staff Susie Wiles

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles swiftly dismissed the Vanity Fair interview as a “hit piece”.

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Mr Donald Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles said the US President has an “alcoholic’s personality”, in an astonishing interview published on Dec 16 by Vanity Fair, which she swiftly dismissed as a “hit piece”.

Ms Wiles also called Vice-President J.D. Vance a “conspiracy theorist”, tech tycoon Elon Musk an “odd duck”, and gave juicy opinions on other Trump administration figures in the lengthy piece.

Mr Trump has previously described Ms Wiles, the first female White House chief of staff, as the “ice maiden” and has credited her for her role in driving forward his second presidency behind the scenes.

But the 68-year-old now finds herself firmly in the headlines after the Vanity Fair story, which the magazine said was based on a series of interviews with veteran political journalist Chris Whipple over the past year.

“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,” Ms Wiles said in her first post on social media platform X in more than a year.