Danielle Kurtzleben

Vance initially tried to get Trump to back off of announcing that big round of tariffs in April.

But in addition, Wiles is just blunt about people.

She calls Vance a conspiracy theorist whose conversion from anti to pro-Trump was, quote, sort of political.

And she really pointedly criticizes Attorney General Pam Bondi for her initial handling of Jeffrey Epstein disclosures.

Yeah, some people do.

And this really got a lot of attention on social media because of it.

But there's a lot of nuance here, really.

The picture that emerges is that you have all these personalities in that White House, some of whom, yeah, aren't described 100 percent glowingly, but that Wiles is this no-nonsense force just herding them all together in the service of Trump's agenda.

And even when it seems here like she might have criticized Trump, the truth is just more complex.

For example, there's a quote that got a lot of attention where she said Trump has an alcoholic personality.

But in context, what she was saying is that Trump has a big, exaggerated personality and that he, quote, operates with a view that there is nothing he can't do.

Well, that's news to no one.

Yeah, I think we knew that.

Well, so how is the White House responding to this?

Well, Wiles was not happy.

She did a rare social media post calling this a hit piece, saying that she thought the article was trying to, quote, paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative.

And Trump officials have circled the wagons, too.

Trump even did a specific interview on this with the New York Post.

And he backed up Wiles and even agreed with that alcoholic line, saying that, yeah, while he doesn't drink, he does have an addictive personality.

Vance also defended Wiles yesterday.