President Donald Trump is reflected in the glasses of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, as he talks to the press on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 5, 2025. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
Key takeaways
A Vanity Fair profile of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, in which she describes the president as having “an alcoholic’s personality” and refers to one of Trump’s top officials as a “zealot,” has gone viral and raised questions about the administration’s basic competency.
As shocking as Wiles’s interview was, it was a...
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