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Donald Trump’s “Ice Maiden” and one of the world’s most politically powerful women has offered A series of frank and often damaging evaluations Return of the President to his first year in office and The people he appointed to shape his presidency.
In Interview with Vanity FairChris Whipple, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wills described the President as having “the personality of an alcoholic,” and said Vice President J.D. Vance has been a “conspiracy theorist” for a decade. Elon Musk dubbed a “distinguished ketamine” user Joe holed up in Washington, D.C., like Nosferatu, and described Budget Director Russell Vought as a “right-wing absolute zealot.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi “strongly condemned” the way the administration operated. Investigative files related to Jeffrey EpsteinAccording to Wills, who also appeared to admit that the president lied when he claimed Bill Clinton had visited the sex offender’s private island more than two dozen times.
The appointment of Wills, whom the president has affectionately named Susie Trump, reflects a sea change from his first term in office to the small group of key advisers who could keep him in check while keeping his most base and most violent impulses in check. within the presidential guardrail,
Irrespective of those checks and balances, Trump has surrounded himself this term with loyalists whose job it is to facilitate Trump’s wishesDo not replace the railings by completely eliminating them.
Vance acknowledged this in his comments to the magazine, saying that Wills “takes exactly the opposite approach” from her predecessors, “which is that she is a facilitator.” Vance told the magazine, his job is “really to facilitate their vision and bring their vision to life.”
Wills called the two-part story a “fraudulently fabricated hit piece” against him “and the finest president in history, the White House staff and Cabinet.”
“Critical context was ignored and everything I and others said about the team and the President was taken out of the story,” he wrote Tuesday. “After reading it I feel it was intended to present an extremely chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team.”
in a statement to IndependentWhite House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt said that Wills has helped the president “achieve the most successful first 11 months in office of any president in American history.”
“President Trump has no greater or more loyal advisor than Susie. The entire administration is grateful for her steady leadership and is fully united behind her,” he said.
Even when she was shot down, she said, even if she objected, she eventually became involved in the administration’s decision-making. “There have been times when I have been outclassed,” he said. Vanity Fair“And if there’s a tie, he wins,”
Trump’s personality is ‘like an alcoholic’
Wills’ later father Pat Summerall, a former NFL player and sportscaster, was an alcoholic who was sober for 21 years before his death in 2013. “High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a bit of an expert in big personalities,” Wills told the magazine.
Trump – although not a drinker himself – has a personality “like an alcoholic,” Wills said, claiming he “works.” [with] An attitude that there is nothing he cannot do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”
‘Score settlement’ and political prosecution
Asked if he ever told Trump not to consider his presidency a “revenge tour” as he focused on his political enemies, Wills said they had a “loose agreement that the score would be settled before the first 90 days were over,” according to Whipple.
But by August, Wills said Trump’s “governance principle” is “I don’t want what happened to me to happen to anyone else.”
He told the magazine, “In some cases, it may seem like retaliation. And there may be an element of that from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me.”
Since then, Trump has directed federal prosecutors to prosecute some of his most prominent critics, including former FBI Director James Comey, Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James, as he presses his administration to target judges, lawyers, broadcasters and ideological opponents. While forgiving dozens of associates.
Asked if he ever asked the president to reconsider pardoning hundreds of people connected to the January 6 attacks, Willis said he “did exactly that.”
“I said, ‘I’m with the people who did or didn’t do anything violent that happened,'” she told Whipple. “And we certainly know what everybody did because the FBI did such an incredible job.'”
‘Avoid Ketamine’ user Elon Musk and USAID cut back
Elon Musk, who used “woodcuts” through federal agencies to cut billions of dollars in government spending and fire thousands of workers, is an “accomplished solo actor” and a “famous ketamine” user who slept in a sleeping bag in a building near the White House during the day. Wills told the magazine.
Whipple wrote that Wills described him as something like a “hooked-up Nosferatu”.
According to Wills, Musk is “a strange, odd duck, as I think talented people are.” “You know, it’s not helpful, but he’s his own person.”
She was initially “surprised” by this Musk-led eviction of US Agency for International DevelopmentWhich has killed thousands of people in Africa and endangered hundreds of life-saving missions around the world.
“Elon’s attitude is that you have to get it done fast. If you’re incrementalist, you’re not going to get your rocket to the moon,” Wills told Whipple. “And so with that attitude, you’re going to break some of China. But no rational person can think that the USAID process was a good one. No one.”
Pam Bondi ‘whispered’ to Epstein
Wills rejected suggestions that Trump did anything wrong during his yearslong relationship with Epstein Admitting that he appears at the level of the so-called Epstein files and hisHe said, “You know, they were kind of a young, lonely, whatever – I know it’s an obsolete word, but they were young, lonely playboys together,”
But Bondi, who in February gave binders titled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” to a group of far-right influencers containing previously publicly available information about the late financier accused of abusing dozens of young women and girls, called the administration’s handling of the case a “complete failure.”
“First he gave them binders full of blanks,” Wills told the magazine, “and then he said the witness list, or the client list, was on his desk.” There is no client list, and it is certain that it was not at his table.
He also said that it was Todd Blanche – Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer, now Bondi’s deputy – who suggested it. Ghislaine Maxwell interviewed in prisonThat interview appears to be designed to quell criticism surrounding a decision by the Justice Department that “no further disclosure” in the Epstein case “would be appropriate or necessary,”
According to Wills, neither he nor Trump were consulted about transferring Maxwell to a less restrictive facility after Blanche’s visit. “The President was marked,” he said. “The President was very unhappy. I don’t know why they moved him. Not even the President.”
‘Mistakes’ in ICE arrests and mass deportations
Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her surrogates are uncompromising in their defense Mass deportations and implementing the President’s anti-immigration agenda.
But after Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemy Act to rapidly send Venezuelan immigrants airlifted to brutal prison in El SalvadorA series of high-profile legal battles are being launched, Wills said. Vanity Fair That “we have to pay more attention to our process for deportation.”
“If someone is a known gang member who has a criminal past, and you’re sure, and you can demonstrate it, then it’s probably OK to send them to El Salvador or whatever,” he told the magazine.
“But if there is any question, I think our process has to lean toward double-checking,” he said.
After a wave of stories of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents turning away immigrants and legal residents who show up for their hearings and appointments, Wills said: “I can’t understand how you make this mistake.”
Trump ‘thinking hard’ on chaotic tariff agenda
There was “huge disagreement” over Trump’s rollout Comprehensive tariffs on global trading partnersAccording to Wills, an idea arose from “thinking out loud is what I call it”.
With Vance’s help, she told Trump “Hey, let’s not talk about tariffs today” and “Let’s wait until our team is fully united and then we’ll do it” — neither of which came to the president’s disposal, she told the magazine.