Trump picks Susan Wiles as White House chief of staff

Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history, and was an integral part of both my 2016 and 2020 successful campaigns,

Trump said in a statement on Thursday, announcing her White House appointment

Dad, the few times we’ve been out in public together recently, I’ve been ashamed we shared the same last name,

Wiles said in a letter that was read during the intervention, according to Summerall’s 2006 autobiography, ... On and Off the Air."

I said, 'I don't want this to continue.' I think it seriously will damage our republic and who among that group can really have the fortitude to shift what I've seen happening over all these years

Wiles told the paper

As a card-carrying member of the G.O.P. establishment, many thought my full-throated endorsement of the Trump candidacy was ill advised — even crazy,

Wiles told the New York Times in a rare public statement

I’ve described her as a political savant — just otherworldly sort of political instincts,

he said

Let me also express my tremendous appreciation for Susie [Wiles] and Chris [LaCivita], on the job you did,

he said

The clown car can’t come into the White House at will,

the source said

Pat Summerallamerican football player

On the final leg, I got sick and three times went to the airplane's toilet to throw up,

Summerall said

My thirst for alcohol was replaced by a thirst for knowledge about faith and God. I began reading the Bible regularly at the Betty Ford treatment center, and it became a part of my daily life,

he wrote in his autobiography

I found myself bleeding to death and my life passing before my eyes in strange blurs,

he told the outlet

I figured everybody got up at 10 every morning and had a beer,

he said

The organization of the campaign, and the fact that he stuck with the leadership team all the way through, I think, is a testament to just what a great job that she did,

Jennings said

Tony Fabriziotrump pollster

There is nobody, I think, that has the wealth of information that she does,

added Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio in Politico's report

Carlos Curbeloformer Representative

Certainly, she's one of the most consequential people in American politics right now,

former Florida GOP Congressman Carlos Curbelo told Politico

Charlie Kirkconservative commentator

Susie Wiles becoming Chief of Staff is MASSIVE, ... She risked her entire political career and potentially becoming a victim of the Biden-Harris lawfare regime for her country. A true patriot. This is a GREAT move for MAGA and America."

Kirk wrote to X

Joni Ernstsenator

Another strong, intelligent woman working with President Trump to make America great!"

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst also mocked Cuban's statement, writing on X in response to Wiles' appointment

Being the first female chief of staff in the White House, I think is a huge marker for both President Trump and the Republican Party, so, I think ... if she can bring the kind of discipline and organization to the White House that she just ran this campaign with, Donald Trump has got a really good chance to get off to a great start and begin achieving objectives right out the way,

he added

Susie Wiles is way too smart of a human being and way too sophisticated a political operator to not understand,

Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based Democratic pollster and MSNBC analyst, told Politico

She can manage really any ego that comes her way,

LaCivita said

Susie is just functionally built differently because she has that rare commodity to be able to work on so many different important issues simultaneously,

LaCivita told The Associated Press