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Adam Gabbatt

Susie Wiles interview might be a useful distraction from how poorly things are going for Americans

Woman stands and looks off to the side while man sits in yellow chair
Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, listens as Donald Trump meets with Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office on 4 February 2025. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

So it appears Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, agrees with many of us: she thinks Donald Trump’s cabinet is bonkers.

From that bombshell Vanity Fair interview, which featured some truly terrifying closeup photos, we learned that Wiles considers JD Vance to have been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade”. She believes Elon Musk to be an “odd, odd duck”. Russell Vought, head of the office of management and budget, is, in Wiles’s view, “a right-wing absolute zealot”.

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