The story featured a two-part profile about Wiles with exclusive interviews about her experience in the second Trump administration.
It was published by the magazine as an “insider’s account” of Trump’s second term.
Wiles, the first woman to ever hold her post, pushed back on the article and claimed it lacked content.
NTD reached out to Vanity Fair seeking a response to Wiles’s comments, but did not receive an answer by publication.
“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,” Wiles added.
Trump chose Wiles to serve as his chief of staff after she successfully managed his 2024 presidential campaign. The president’s most trusted adviser is known for staying out of the spotlight and it’s rare for her to speak so extensively and openly as she did with Vanity Fair.
Wiles has been speaking to the magazine since just before Trump took office in January.
The article was written by Chris Whipple, an associate fellow at Yale and the author of the New York Times best-selling book “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency.”
In the article, Whipple stated that he “spoke regularly” with Wiles “about almost everything.” He also pointed out that Wiles “answered every question” and compared her to other senior White House officials who tend to “parse” their words.
Wiles throughout the interview appeared to speak candidly with Whipple on a variety of topics, specifically White House staff, Trump’s cabinet, and the president himself.
Wiles claimed that Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality,” but she knows how to handle it because her father was an alcoholic. The president notably does not consume alcohol.
“High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink,” she told the magazine. “And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities,” adding that Trump has “a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”
Wiles also described much of her role as channeling Trump’s energy, including managing his desire for vengeance against his political opponents.
“We have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over,” Wiles said early in his administration.
Later in 2025, Wiles said she didn’t think the president was on a so-called “retribution tour” in his second term, arguing he was operating on a different principle: “‘I don’t want what happened to me to happen to somebody else.’ And so people that have done bad things need to get out of the government. In some cases, it may look like retribution. And there may be an element of that from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me,” she said.
When pressed about the prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud, Wiles answered, “that might be the one retribution.”
Wiles also criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files, saying she made public a “binder full of nothingness” and falsely claimed she had a witness or client list.
In the article, Wiles praised OMB Director Russell Vought while describing him as “right-wing absolute zealot.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the article and praised Wiles’ dedication to the president and his agenda.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
