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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Charlotte Cripps

I know Trump has an ‘alcoholic’s personality’ because I have one, too

An explosive tell-all interview in Vanity Fair with Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, reveals her experience of what US president Donald Trump and his inner circle are really like behind closed doors in Washington DC.

In the piece published on Tuesday, Wiles declared that JD Vance had been a “conspiracy theorist for a decade”, and that Elon Musk is an “odd, odd duck” and an “avowed ketamine [user]” who “sleeps in a sleeping bag in the EOB [Executive Office Building]”. But the big hitter? Trump, who is famously teetotal, has an “alcoholic’s personality” because he believes “there’s nothing he can’t do”.

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