The White House Doesn’t Care About Susie Wiles’ Vanity Fair Interview

Top Trump officials are rallying behind chief of staff Susie Wiles after it was reported that Wiles made unflattering comments about the Trump team in a forthcoming Vanity Fair profile.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump Jr., Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and FBI Director Kash Patel are just some of the heavy hitters sticking up for Wiles.

Bondi, whom Wiles allegedly criticized over her handling of the Epstein files, said on Tuesday that Wiles fights for the Trump agenda every day “with grace, loyalty, and historic effectiveness.” The AG also suggested the coming profile was a failed “attempt to divide this administration.”

My dear friend @SusieWiles fights every day to advance President Trump’s agenda – and she does so with grace, loyalty, and historic effectiveness.

Any attempt to divide this administration will fail.

Any attempt to undermine and downplay President Trump’s monumental…

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 16, 2025

VP Vance joked about Wiles allegedly calling him a “conspiracy theorist” in the profile, while also heaping praise on Wiles for being authentic and the “best” chief of staff for President Donald Trump.

“Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true,” Vance addressed the alleged comments. “And, by the way, Susie and I have joked about that in private and in public. For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask three-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic. I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job. And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponents.”

“So, at least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it,” Vance joked. “And that’s my understanding.”

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Vance then praised Wiles as “the same exact person” when she’s in front of President Trump as she is when he’s not around, which the VP said is very unlike most people in politics.

“I have never seen her be disloyal to the president of the United States, and that makes her the best White House chief of staff that I think the president could have asked for,” he said.

JUST IN: JD Vance fires back at reporter who asked him about Susie Wiles’ alleged comment that he is a conspiracy theorist, starts listing off every conspiracy theory he believes in.

“I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true.”

“I believed in the crazy conspiracy… pic.twitter.com/NOhD9SJgg9

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 16, 2025

Vance also said the Trump team should give fewer interviews to the mainstream media, suggesting the MSM is not trustworthy.

Vance’s parting comment on the VF article:

“If any of us have learned a lesson from that Vanity Fair article, I hope that the lesson is we should be giving fewer interviews to mainstream media outlets.” https://t.co/kSDrHW0cU3

— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) December 16, 2025

Secretary Leavitt, early Tuesday morning, posted on X, “Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped President Trump 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 united fully behind her.”

Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped President Trump 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… https://t.co/Y3NEXI6a1E

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) December 16, 2025

“Susie Wiles is by far the most effective and trustworthy Chief of Staff that my father has ever had,” Don Jr. said. “I very rarely speak out about my father’s staffers, but there is no one on Earth more equipped to serve my father as Chief of Staff than Susie.”

Susie Wiles is by far the most effective and trustworthy Chief of Staff that my father has ever had.

When Susie took over my father’s political operation after J6, people forget how many “Republicans” were treating him like a pariah.

Countless operatives, consultants and… https://t.co/hCGRZT3qJe

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 16, 2025

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth blasted the media for the profile. “This is what the Left does: trash & smear our best & most effective people. They do it to President Trump daily — and now to Chief Susie Wiles,” he wrote. “Susie is the most TRUSTED, most PROFESSIONAL & most EFFECTIVE Chief of Staff of my lifetime. Absolutely nobody better!”

This is what the Left does: trash & smear our best & most effective people.

They do it to President Trump daily — and now to Chief Susie Wiles.

Susie is the most TRUSTED, most PROFESSIONAL & most EFFECTIVE Chief of Staff of my lifetime. Absolutely nobody better! https://t.co/2w34GZJFuS

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) December 16, 2025

“Fake news comes after you when you’re effective… and there’s nobody in [Donald Trump]’s team more effective than [Susie Wiles],” FBI Director Kash Patel posted online.

Fake news comes after you when you’re effective… and there’s nobody in @realDonaldTrump’s team more effective than @SusieWiles

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 16, 2025

Wiles said on Tuesday that the coming profile “is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history,” The Daily Wire reported.

“Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the president was left out of the story,” she continued.

“I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president and our team,” Wiles added. “The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other president has accomplished in eight years and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have been honored to work for the better part of a decade. None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of Making America Great Again!”

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