Donald Trump, famously, does not drink. He’s supposedly driven by the example of his late brother Fred, who was an alcoholic and suffered an early death in 1981. Trump has all sorts of appetites and vices, but alcohol is not among them.
But does he have an “alcoholic’s personality”? It turns out his own chief of staff thinks so.
The comments came from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, interviewed in a Vanity Fair profile this week.
Wiles’ father was the famed football announcer Pat Summerall, who for a large part of his life was an alcoholic, before becoming sober in the last 20 years of his life. And Wiles believes that Trump has that type of personality, despite not being an alcoholic himself.
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“Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say. But 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,” Wiles said in the story.
“Wiles said Trump has ‘an alcoholic’s personality.’ He ‘operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.'”
Wiles also had things to say about other administration figures:
“An alcoholic’s personality,” delivered without venom or inflection, is in the @JoyceCarolOates tier of just searing, fish-fileting disses. pic.twitter.com/oEq60ymGR1
— Zac Hill (@zdch) December 16, 2025
Wiles also talks in the Vanity Fair piece about the Epstein files, acknowledging that Attorney General Pam Bondi fumbled the initial release.
“Wiles told me she’d read what she calls ‘the Epstein file,'” the piece says. “And, she said, “[Trump] is in the file. And we know he’s in the file. And he’s not in the file doing anything awful.’ Wiles said that Trump ‘was on [Epstein’s] plane…he’s on the manifest. They were, you know, sort of young, single, whatever—I know it’s a passé word but sort of young, single playboys together.'”
Damn. Susie Wiles still has to like, go to work today after saying this pic.twitter.com/5EoI8kwJKO
— James Singer (@Jemsinger) December 16, 2025
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