Chris Whipple

She seemed to be trying to act as—at least tap the brakes—

on some of Trump's excesses and, you know, overreach.

But by now, I think many months later, we're now approaching the first anniversary of Trump 2.0.

I think those conversations are few and far between.

And those are the kinds of conversations, in my view,

that a White House chief of staff must have to fulfill the most important duty, which is telling the president what he doesn't want to hear.

She's doing less and less of that, I'm afraid.

Yeah, she does.

She does say that.

But at the same time, she loves to quote James A. Baker III, who was Ronald Reagan's quintessential White House chief.

Nobody was better than Baker at telling Ronald Reagan what he didn't want to hear.

And so I think that's the part of it that she's missing.

I mean, J.D.

Vance said to me that

Her philosophy of being White House chief of staff is, just as you said, it's to facilitate the president's vision.

He said in the first term, White House chiefs were trying to look out for the national interest and rein Trump in and all of this.

And he regarded that as nonsense.

And Susie's done the diametrically opposite thing, which is help the president fulfill his agenda.

having written a book about White House chiefs and having interviewed every living chief at one point, here's what's missing.

You cannot fulfill the president's vision.