Wiles sheds light on Trump's 'alcoholic's personality'

Washington super-insider Suzie Wiles has given an interview on the inner workings of Donald Trump’s White House – and it does not make for pretty reading.

In the interview, with Vanity Fair, Wiles describes the president as having an “alcoholic’s personality” and his vice president JD Vance as having been a “conspiracy theorist” for a decade.

“High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink,” Wiles said. “So I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.” While the president does not drink, she said Trump had “an alcoholic’s personality” and governs with the mindset that “there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing”

On Vance, a one-time critic of Trump who compared him to Hitler before seeing the way the wind was blowing and joining his presidential ticket, Wiles said his shift was “sort of political”.

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She was also strongly critical of Elon Musk, the Tesla and X owner who briefly served as Trump’s head of the Department of Government Efficiency before inevitably falling out with the president. Musk was an “avowed Ketamine [user]” who “sleeps in a sleeping bag in the EOB”, the executive office building adjacent to the White House, Wiles told the magazine. “He’s an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are,” she said. “You know, it’s not helpful, but he is his own person.”

Looking back on Musk’s cost-cutting efforts, Wiles said that she was opposed to the slashing of the US Agency for International Development, or USAID, saying she was “initially aghast” at the proposal.

“I think that anybody that pays attention to government and has ever paid attention to USAID believed, as I did, that they do very good work,” she said. “Elon’s attitude is you have to get it done fast. If you’re an incrementalist, you just won’t get your rocket to the moon,” Wiles said. “With that attitude, you’re going to break some china. But no rational person could think the USAID process was a good one. Nobody.”

It all sounds like a disastrous way to run the government of the world’s most powerful nation. If only there was some way for her to raise it with the woman who, as Trump’s White House chief of staff, is nominally in charge of operations – one, er, Susan L. Wiles.