Susie Wiles torches DOGE, Elon Musk, and even JD Vance

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Susie Wiles blows up the White House

Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles becomes the latest White House insider to give a journalist more candor than intended.

An explosive Vanity Fair piece on Tuesday cited an astonishing eleven interviews with Wiles over the past year in which she offered disdainful criticism of colleagues and unguarded opinions of her boss.

Of Elon Musk, the former DOGE chief, Wiles said: "He's an avowed ketamine [user]."

Of Musk's tearing apart of USAID, the federal government's foreign assistance arm: "No rational person could think the USAID process was a good one. Nobody."

JD Vance, the vice president, she derided as "a conspiracy theorist".

Trump himself, she said has an "alcoholic's personality".

Russ Vought, the Trump loyalist and fiscal hawk: A "zealot".

Cue the fireworks on Pennsylvania Ave., where the White House spin doctors were hard at work trying to lessen the impact of her takedowns.

From Wiles's response on X, it was very, very clear that Trump's majordomo thought she was off the record when she spoke to the journalist, Chris Whipple.

At no point did she deny saying anything that was quoted by Whipple, who also penned a New York Times bestseller on White House chiefs of staff.

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