If I were Susie Wiles, Donald Trump’s chief of staff, I wouldn’t be too upset about the two-part interview with Vanity Fair which she has gone out of her way to distance herself from. It was based on 11 interviews with the magazine’s Chris Whipple, whom she trusted since they knew each other from church. Well, just goes to show, you can’t trust even your fellow parishioners. In fact it’s not the quotes from the interview that do the most damage; it’s photographer Chris Anderson’s pictures of the Trump team, including Wiles, which make them all look mad as hatters. This may or may not be the case, but you can’t imagine the magazine taking this approach with, say, with Kamilla Harris.
Susie Wiles says on X that Vanity Fair disregarded "significant context" in framing the interview to create "an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative" about the administration. Certainly the way the interview is presented isn’t that of a friend of the president. But she hasn’t disputed any of the quotes. Trump, for his part, declares that she had been “deceived” by the writer.
