\u201cSignificant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story,\u201d she wrote, accusing the magazine of trying to \u201cpaint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president and our team\u201d.<\/p>\n
Vanity Fair quoted Wiles – whose own father, the NFL announcer Pat Summerall was an alcoholic – as saying that Trump, while a non-drinker, has \u201can alcoholic\u2019s personality\u201d, and \u201coperates [with] a view that there\u2019s nothing he can\u2019t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump, 79, is teetotal. His own brother Fred was an alcoholic and died of a heart attack aged 42.<\/p>\n
In the wide-ranging series of interviews, Wiles said she was \u201cnot an enabler\u201d to Trump, who has unleashed an unprecedented display of presidential power since his return to power on January, adding \u201cI\u2019m also not a b****\u201d.<\/p>\n
But she was forthright about Space X and Tesla boss Elon Musk\u2019s role as head of the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency in the first months of Trump\u2019s term.<\/p>\n
Describing billionaire Musk as an \u201codd, odd duck\u201d and an \u201cavowed\u201d ketamine user, she criticised Doge\u2019s shutdown of the USAid international aid department.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo rational person could think the USAid process was a good one. Nobody,\u201d Vanity Fair quoted her as saying.<\/p>\n
\u2018Conspiracy theorist\u2019<\/p>\n
She hailed what she called a \u201ccore team\u201d of Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller but said Vance had been a \u201ca conspiracy theorist for a decade\u201d, when talking about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.<\/p>\n
Wiles also called Vance\u2019s change from an avowed opponent of Trump, whom he once compared to Hitler, to loyal follower as \u201csort of political\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s chief of staff had barbed comments for Attorney-General Pam Bondi, saying Bondi \u201ccompletely whiffed\u201d the promised release to right-wing influencers of documents about Epstein.<\/p>\n
She called Russ Vought, the hardline chief of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a \u201cright-wing absolute zealot\u201d, Vanity Fair said.<\/p>\n
The magazine said Wiles gave revealing insights into Trump\u2019s policies on key domestic and foreign policy issues too.<\/p>\n
She said she had a \u201cloose agreement\u201d with Trump to end the \u201cscore settling\u201d against his political enemies after 90 days, even as he has continued to target his foes with calls for prosecution.<\/p>\n
On Ukraine, Wiles said that Trump believes Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cwants the whole country\u201d, despite Washington\u2019s push for a peace deal.<\/p>\n
Top Trump cabinet members lined up to defend Wiles and lash out at the Vanity Fair piece.<\/p>\n
Vance called her the \u201cbest White House chief of staff that I think the President could ask for\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have our disagreements, we agree on much more than we disagree, but I\u2019ve never seen her be disloyal to the President of the United States,\u201d Vance said in a speech in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on X that there was \u201cabsolutely nobody better!\u201d<\/p>\n
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