Susie Wiles

thumb|Susie Wiles in 2025 Susan L. Wiles (née Summerall; born May 14, 1957) is an American political consultant and lobbyist who has served as the 32nd White House chief of staff since January 2025 and is the first woman to hold the post. Quotes He’s been through so much: the lawfare, having been the leader of the free world, having had an assassination attempt. He’s a different person than he was. I think he's a better leader now [...] I don’t know that I had anything to do with that, but I think the country benefits from it. I see my job as just sort of keeping the trains on the tracks and running on time here, so that the subject matter experts, and particularly the president and the vice president can do what they need to do to fix the country Interviewed on My View with Lara Trump (Fox News, March 29, 2025), as cited in [ "Susie Wiles on a changed Trump: ‘I think he’s a better leader now’"], The Hill (27 March 2925). Extracts from the interview of March 27 were released on that day, but the full interview was not broadcast until March 29. The 2020 election. Coming to him after the 2020 election … and telling him what he thought was the circumstance wasn’t — which is how I got into all this. If you are in Trump world, you are hyper‑competitive. You want to win. I see my job as just sort of keeping the trains on the tracks and running on time here, so that the subject matter experts, and particularly the president and the vice president, can do what they need to do … to fix the country. Be smart with hiring. Remember what President Trump promised the American people he would do: Set goals and then exceed them in every area, with every staff member. I cannot stress teamwork and mutual support enough. ... It's not magic — set goals and timelines for me and the team and then work to exceed them. Simple, yes, but this worked quite nicely on the campaign. Interviews for Vanity Fair (16 December 2025) Chris Whipple "Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff On Trump’s Second Term" [Part 1], Vanity Fair (16 December 2025) Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I'm going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I'm a little bit of an expert in big personalities. [... Trump has] an alcoholic’s personality. [He functions with] a view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing, zero, nothing. Her father, Pat Summerall, a former NFL player and later a sportscaster, was an alcoholic. [On Elon Musk] He is a complete solo actor [...] The challenge with Elon is keeping up with him [...] He's an avowed ketamine [user]. And he sleeps in a sleeping bag in the EOB [Executive Office Building] in the daytime. And he's an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, it's not helpful, but he is his own person. Chris Whipple "Susie Wiles Talks Epstein Files, Pete Hegseth’s War Tactics, Retribution, and More" [Part 2], Vanity Fair (16 December 2025). And the vice president, who’s been a conspiracy theorist for a decade. [On Trump appearing to snooze] He's not asleep. He's got his eyes closed and his head leaned back ... and, you know, he's fine. Trump doesn't depend on anybody. On X (formerly Twitter), reported CNN, Wiles commented: "The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history. [...] Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story. I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team." External links Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians Category:Women politicians in the United States Category:White House Chiefs of Staff Category:People from Florida Category:Episcopalians from the United States Category:Women born in the 1950s