&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "‘I'd have a very good chance of being...’: Trump reacts to Susie Wiles’ ‘alcoholic’ remark")
After White House Chief of Staff made huge claims in a bombshell interview, US President Donald Trump defended her, saying that he indeed does have an "alcoholic's personality" and that he was not offended by her word choice. He also reaffirmed confidence in her role as chief of staff.
"No, she meant that I'm-you see, I don't drink alcohol. So everybody knows that-but I've often said that if I did, I'd have a very good chance of being an alcoholic. I have said that many times about myself, I do. It's a very possessive personality," Trump said.
"I've said that many times about myself. I'm fortunate I'm not a drinker. If I did, I could very well, because I've said that - what's the word? Not possessive - possessive and addictive type personality. Oh, I've said it many times, many times before," he added in a New York Times interview.
Susie Wiles, US President Donald Trump's chief of staff, said on Tuesday (Dec 16) that the American president had an "alcoholic's personality”. She was reported to have said this in an astonishing interview published by Vanity Fair, which Wiles swiftly dismissed as a "hit piece." Wiles also called Vice President JD Vance a "conspiracy theorist," tech tycoon Elon Musk an "odd duck," and gave juicy opinions on other Trump administration figures in the lengthy piece.
Wiles also called Vice President JD Vance a "conspiracy theorist," tech tycoon Elon Musk an "odd duck," and gave juicy opinions on other Trump administration figures in the lengthy piece.
The 68-year-old said in an X post, “The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest president, White House staff, and cabinet in history.”
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"Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story," she wrote, accusing the magazine of trying to "paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president and our team," she added.
