Vice President JD Vance defended White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Monday after Vanity Fair dropped an interview in which she allegedly made unflattering comments about members of the Trump administration.
Vance commented on the controversy while addressing reporters at the Uline Shipping Supplies warehouse in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania.
“You know why I really love Susie Wiles? Because Susie is who she is in the president’s presence, and she’s the same exact person when the president isn’t around,” Vance said. “I’ve never seen Susie Wiles say something to the president and then go and counteract him or subvert his will behind the scenes.”
That’s what you want in a staffer. Because as much as I love Susie, the American people didn’t elect any staffer; they elected the president of the United States. What you want in a staffer is a person who understands they’re there to effectuate the will of the American people, and they’re there to follow the orders of the duly elected commander in chief of the United States.
Vance further stated that while he and Wiles “have our disagreements,” they “agree on much more than we disagree.”
In Vanity Fair, Wiles allegedly referred to Vance as a conspiracy theorist. Vance responded to this by saying, “Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true.” He noted that he and Wiles “have joked in private and in public about that for a long time.”
He went on to state that he believed in the “crazy conspiracy theory” that “it was stupid to mask three-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic, that we should actually let them develop some language skills.”
Vance also said he believed in the “crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job,” and that former President Joe Biden “was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponent.”
The vice president ended by saying, “If any of us have learned a lesson from that Vanity Fair article, I hope that the lesson is: we should be giving fewer interviews to mainstream media outlets.”
The Vanity Fair piece said Wiles criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files and claimed Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality” because he “operates with a view that there’s nothing he can’t do.”
In a post on X, Wiles characterized the Vanity Fair piece as “a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.” She suggested that “significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story.”
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.
— Susie Wiles (@SusieWiles) December 16, 2025
Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the…
What Vance said about giving interviews to the mainstream media was my first thought when I first read the Vanity Fair piece. Giving interviews to some of these outlets would be like me giving an interview to Neo Nazi site, Stormfront, and expecting them to provide me with a fair shake.
The legacy media is clearly biased against Trump. But Vanity Fair, in particular, has done little to conceal its bias.
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