"Wiles may be the most powerful figure in Trump's West Wing besides Trump himself, but her role is exercised less as a brake than as a gearbox, translating the president's instinct into policy, and urging everyone else to fall into line. I'm not an enabler. I'm also not a bitch, Wiles said. I guess time will tell whether I've been effective."
"Throughout the two-part article, Wiles was unusually free with labels for the people closest to Trump. Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, Project 2025 co-author and architect behind many civil service cuts, was branded a right-wing absolute zealot. Former First Buddy Elon Musk, she said, was a complete solo actor and an avowed ketamine user, an odd duck whose early scorched-earth DOGE cuts to USAID she admitted left her aghast."
"The president himself was not spared the sharp analysis either. Wiles told Vanity Fair she sees Trump through the lens of her father, the late Pat Summerall, whom she described as an absentee parent and an alcoholic. She said that experience left her a little bit of an expert in big personalities. Her verdict on the president is brutal and brief, that Trump has an alcoholic's personality."
The chief of staff functions less as a brake than as a gearbox, translating presidential instinct into policy and compelling others to align. Blunt characterizations mark internal dynamics: the vice president is depicted as having undergone a political transformation; the OMB director is labeled a right-wing absolute zealot linked to civil service cuts; a former tech ally is portrayed as a solo actor and admitted ketamine user whose aid cuts provoked aghast reactions. The Cabinet is praised as world-class. The president is framed through the lens of an absentee, alcoholic parent, leading to the assessment that the president exhibits an alcoholic's personality.
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