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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said White House Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles’ Vanity Fair interview was manipulated.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Vice President JD Vance and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles listen, during a meeting between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, DC, US. (IMAGE: REUTERS)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said that White House Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles’ interview to Vanity Fair was “deliberately manipulated”.
He said that Wiles is loyal to the “mission” of US President Donald Trump and that pictures and quotes shared by the magazine were “out of context”.
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Wiles offered an unusually candid look inside President Donald Trump’s administration in a series of interviews published Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine.
From criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi as having “whiffed” on the Jeffrey Epstein case to saying that no rational person could believe Elon Musk did a good job dismantling the United States Agency for International Development, Wiles revealed her own thoughts about her boss and the work of his administration. The assessments are even more notable because Wiles, before now, has maintained a low profile.
Wiles dismissed Vanity Fair’s work as a “hit piece,” and a number of Cabinet officials, including Rubio, and other aides rushed to her defense.
It is obvious to most people that Vanity Fair deliberately manipulated pictures and reported statements without context to try and make the WH team look bad And there is nobody more loyal or committed to President Trump’s mission than Susie Wiles. She is one of the main reasons…
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 17, 2025
“It is obvious to most people that Vanity Fair deliberately manipulated pictures and reported statements without context to try and make the WH team look bad. And there is nobody more loyal or committed to President Trump’s mission than Susie Wiles. She is one of the main reasons why we have a team that works together to carry out the President’s promises to the American people,” Rubio said in a social media post on X.
Wiles affirmed Trump’s ruthlessness and determination to achieve retribution against those he considers his political enemies, especially those who prosecuted him.
“We have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over,” Wiles said early in Trump’s second administration, telling Vanity Fair she did try to tamp down Trump’s penchant for retribution.
But in August 2025, she shifted. “I don’t think he’s on a retribution tour,” she said, arguing Trump has a different principle: “‘I don’t want what happened to me to happen to somebody else.’”
Still, she said, “there may be an element of that from time to time” and Trump “will go for it … when there’s an opportunity.”
She also said that the US President may have “an alcoholic’s personality,” even though the Trump does not drink. But the personality trait is something she recognizes from her father, the famous sports broadcaster Pat Summerall.
“High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities,” she said.
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December 17, 2025, 08:26 IST
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