White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced Vanity Fair’s profile on chief of staff Susie Wiles as “fake news.”

“This was, unfortunately, another attempt at fake news by a reporter who was acting disingenuously and really did take the chief’s words out of context,” Leavitt told Fox News Channel’s “America Reports.” “But I think, most importantly, the bias of omission was ever-present throughout this story. The reporter omitted all of the positive things that Susie and our team said about the president and the inner workings of the White House.”

Wiles sat for 11 interviews with Vanity Fair to discuss her role as White House chief of staff and reflect on President Donald Trump’s eventual first year. Wiles called the finished product a “disingenuously framed hit piece.”

Wiles reportedly said Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality;” called Elon Musk an “avowed ketamine [user];” said Vice President JD Vance was a “conspiracy theorist for a decade,” and referred to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought as “a right-wing absolute zealot.” 

“Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story,” Wiles wrote in a rare post on X. “I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team.”

“The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in 11 months than any other president has accomplished in eight years, and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have been honored to work for the better part of a decade. None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of Making America Great Again!” she continued.

Leavitt said the story won’t distract the White House from the work at hand.

“And President Trump has been such a productive president and has accomplished more in 11 months than most presidents do in eight years because of his vision and his tenacity, which is executed on and facilitated by our great White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, whom I’m very proud of to call a boss and a mentor and a friend,” she said.

In an interview with the New York Post, Trump said he was not offended by being compared to an alcoholic.

“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,” he said. “Oh, I’ve said it many times, many times before.”

Trump said he didn’t read the story because he doesn’t read Vanity Fair, a magazine which he believes has “lost its way.”

“I think from what I hear, the facts were wrong, and it was a very misguided interviewer, purposely misguided,” he said.

“Yeah, deceived — and he didn’t have great access, a couple of very short interviews. And Susie generally doesn’t do interviews,” he continued.

Vance agreed with Wiles assertion that he is sometimes a conspiracy theorist.

“Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true,” he said. “By the way, Susie and I have joked in private and in public about that for a long time. For example, I believe in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 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. I believed in this 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 I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponent, at least on some of these conspiracy theories,” he said. “It turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it, and that’s my understanding.”

According to Vance, Wiles understands that understands she is in the role to effectuate the will of the American people.

“I really love Susie Wiles, because Susie is who she is in the president’s presence. I’ve never seen Susie Wiles say something to the president and then go and counteract him or subvert his will behind the scenes, and that’s what you wanted a staffer.

“We have our disagreements. We agree on much more than we disagree,” he said, “but I’ve never seen her be disloyal to the President of the United States, and that makes her the best White House chief of staff that I think the president could ask.”

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