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demmiblue

(39,722 posts)
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:49 AM Dec 2025

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles is scrambling to contain the fallout from her bombshell tell-all interviews with Vanity

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles is scrambling to contain the fallout from her bombshell tell-all interviews with Vanity Fair

Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2025-12-16T15:43:38.382Z

This accomplished-more-than-any-other-president thing is a psychosis for Trump and his minions. It's such a big lie it's a wonder they don't burst into flames or burst out laughing when they say it.

David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) 2025-12-16T15:46:17.121Z


White House chief of staff Susie Wiles posted on X for the first time in more than a year to slam Vanity Fair for what she called a "disingenuously framed hit piece" that was based on a series of regular interviews and conversations she had with reporter Chris Wipple over the course of a year.

The piece, which is a story Vanity Fair published in two parts on Tuesday, didn't just include candid comments from Wiles; other Trump administration officials spoke to Wipple, and several high-level members of Trump's team posed for a series of portraits to accompany the story.

"Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story," Wiles said in her post. "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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Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles is scrambling to contain the fallout from her bombshell tell-all interviews with Vanity (Original Post) demmiblue Dec 2025 OP
Repukes in disarray? SheltieLover Dec 2025 #1
Yep MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #7
Wtf happened to her face? Does botox slide around that way? SheltieLover Dec 2025 #11
I don't know MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #13
Haha. That would do it. SheltieLover Dec 2025 #15
But still licking him surfered Dec 2025 #18
His ass is the 24-hr vigil for ass lickers SheltieLover Dec 2025 #19
Sure, Susie. I have never seen anyone's face do that. travelingthrulife Dec 2025 #2
She looks like she's eating an octopus, whole Tanuki Dec 2025 #6
Damn GCG Dec 2025 #3
Can't speak canetoad Dec 2025 #38
lol - popcorn time indeed TBF Dec 2025 #4
Hope I don't get nightmares now BaronChocula Dec 2025 #26
🍿😂😂😂 underpants Dec 2025 #5
Hmmm StarryNite Dec 2025 #8
Anyone have a good link that itemizes the things that were posted in the Vanity Fair article Baitball Blogger Dec 2025 #9
I was able to read the whole article for free online Fiendish Thingy Dec 2025 #16
Technically, it could be argued that he has accomplished more... Alice B. Dec 2025 #10
That is exactly correct. PCIntern Dec 2025 #12
I was scrolling down to make sure no one else said this BaronChocula Dec 2025 #24
All great minds here, lol Alice B. Dec 2025 #25
Yep. Accomplishing more is not necessarily a good thing. Wiz Imp Dec 2025 #29
It's depressing to try to figure but someday, with time and distance, I'd be curious to know who the next most Alice B. Dec 2025 #37
Surprisingly, Wiles is correct about the spin on this article Fiendish Thingy Dec 2025 #14
Yep. Although a smart COS would anticipate it leftstreet Dec 2025 #21
I think she intentionally set up & sucker punched popsdenver Dec 2025 #17
Here is the Vanity Fair article part 1 irisblue Dec 2025 #20
Dayum, is Photoshop that good??!? n/t lastlib Dec 2025 #30
I love this. love_katz Dec 2025 #22
She knew what she was doing Keepthesoulalive Dec 2025 #23
She is a piece of shit who is to blame for so much of everything wrong right now. massive Trump enabler. LymphocyteLover Dec 2025 #33
I can't disagree Keepthesoulalive Dec 2025 #34
I hope she has that much sense LymphocyteLover Dec 2025 #35
After she typed that response did someone wipe Dump's shit off her nose? mdbl Dec 2025 #27
That mug Nasruddin Dec 2025 #28
....all of them garbage scows..... lastlib Dec 2025 #31
Translation:... lame54 Dec 2025 #32
she is so fucking DISGUSTING Skittles Dec 2025 #36
But they hate the "liberal" mainstream "fake news" media, right? In It to Win It Dec 2025 #39
Trump has an amphetamine-user personality... AntiFascist Dec 2025 #40

MustLoveBeagles

(16,411 posts)
13. I don't know
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:27 PM
Dec 2025

I will never inject poison in my face. I think she had an ass kissing session with her boss before the presser.


Sorry for being gross.


SheltieLover

(80,488 posts)
15. Haha. That would do it.
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:30 PM
Dec 2025

Yeah, I would never allow botulism injections either.



Ps - not gross. Likely factual.

GCG

(87 posts)
3. Damn
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:52 AM
Dec 2025

What the hell is wrong with her face? It looks like she had an encounter with a face sucker from Alien...

canetoad

(20,769 posts)
38. Can't speak
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:36 PM
Dec 2025

To the fine detail, but I reckon it's something to do with cosmetic enhancements - inserted, removed or solidifying.

TBF

(36,671 posts)
4. lol - popcorn time indeed
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:57 AM
Dec 2025

Pat Summerall's daughter is not naive - she knows exactly what she is doing.

BaronChocula

(4,555 posts)
26. Hope I don't get nightmares now
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 02:22 PM
Dec 2025

I listen to old episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater as I drift off to sleep at night complete with olds ads. Some of them feature "Pat Summerall here..." My nights won't be the same.

Baitball Blogger

(52,350 posts)
9. Anyone have a good link that itemizes the things that were posted in the Vanity Fair article
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:06 PM
Dec 2025

that has Wiles all perplexed?

Fiendish Thingy

(23,240 posts)
16. I was able to read the whole article for free online
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:31 PM
Dec 2025

I found a report by The Hill that linked to a paywall-free version via Apple News. (Sorry, don’t have a link)

Wiles is correct- the “bombshell” quotes are being taken largely out of context, and the interview shows her to be, for the most part, a loyal and fawning Trump servant.

Alice B.

(735 posts)
10. Technically, it could be argued that he has accomplished more...
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:08 PM
Dec 2025

…More destruction, that is.

Wiz Imp

(9,997 posts)
29. Yep. Accomplishing more is not necessarily a good thing.
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 02:54 PM
Dec 2025

There is not a single good thing that has been accomplished, but he has accomplished an unbelievably incredible amount of bad. Trump has arguably done as many bad things in 11 months as any 10 Presidents have done in their entire terms combined.

Alice B.

(735 posts)
37. It's depressing to try to figure but someday, with time and distance, I'd be curious to know who the next most
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:28 PM
Dec 2025

damaging president was. I'm guessing it's a long, long way back to second place.

Fiendish Thingy

(23,240 posts)
14. Surprisingly, Wiles is correct about the spin on this article
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:28 PM
Dec 2025

I just read the whole Vanity Fair piece, and the “bombshell” quotes are largely taken out of context of what was, for the most part, an interview that portrayed Wiles as loyal and fawning over Trump.

It’s the reporting by The Hill and other secondary outlets that are spinning this into clickbait sensationalism, perhaps spurred on my some in Miller’s camp who would like to see Wiles fired so Pee Wee German can get promoted to her COS job.

leftstreet

(40,683 posts)
21. Yep. Although a smart COS would anticipate it
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 02:11 PM
Dec 2025

How could she possibly not know that the juicy quotes are always the clickable ones?

I thought she was supposed to be so brainy

popsdenver

(2,307 posts)
17. I think she intentionally set up & sucker punched
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 01:55 PM
Dec 2025

Vanity Fair and their journalist, to make it appear both Vanity Fair and the journalist were extreme leftists who write articles that are all lies and propaganda about Trump........

She is obviously a very intelligent woman. Check out her accomplishments for the past few decades....

My thinking is that it was a giant sting operation, just like they did on Acorn? years ago....

Just one of the countless many, working in the shadows, behind smoke and mirrors, in this CABAL of NEW Republicans......

I guess we will just have to wait and see.........If I am correct, she keeps her job as Chief of Staff, if not, she gets thrown under the bus which is classical Trump......

Keepthesoulalive

(2,305 posts)
23. She knew what she was doing
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 02:16 PM
Dec 2025

She is well known in conservative circles. She is sticking the knife in as she looks forward to her next grift.

LymphocyteLover

(9,852 posts)
33. She is a piece of shit who is to blame for so much of everything wrong right now. massive Trump enabler.
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 03:12 PM
Dec 2025

Keepthesoulalive

(2,305 posts)
34. I can't disagree
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 03:55 PM
Dec 2025

She is trying to save her assets and she will throw the fat felon under alligator Alcatraz.

mdbl

(8,658 posts)
27. After she typed that response did someone wipe Dump's shit off her nose?
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 02:37 PM
Dec 2025

What a disgusting sycophant.

In It to Win It

(12,651 posts)
39. But they hate the "liberal" mainstream "fake news" media, right?
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 12:51 AM
Dec 2025

They took the time to take photos and give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair.

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