Trump has “the personality of an alcoholic”, says the head of the White House

MADRID, December 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has as head of the White House, Susie Wiles, “the personality of an alcoholic”, as she herself declared in a series of interviews published this Tuesday and in which she directly alludes to the consumption of ketamine of the tycoon Elon Musk and the “somewhat political” conversion of the vice-president of the country, JD Vance, into a fervent supporter of the Republican president.

“Alcoholics (…) generally exaggerate their personality when they drink. So I’m a bit of an expert on strong personalities,” Wiles said, referring to his own father’s alcoholism, before specifying that Trump has “the personality of an alcoholic” and that “he acts with the idea that there is nothing he cannot do”, according to the collection of interviews with the head of the White House published Tuesday by the magazine “Vanity Fair”.

In the multiple conversations held throughout 2025, the head of the White House also addressed the American president’s strategy towards Venezuela: “He wants to continue blowing up ships until (President Nicolas) Maduro gives up,” she said, even though the administration has repeatedly insisted that it is a campaign against drug trafficking. These attacks have already left more than 90 dead.

Wiles also criticized the Trump administration’s detention and deportation policy this year: “I recognize that we need to analyze our deportation process more thoroughly,” he said after the transfer with almost no evidence of more than 200 immigrants to a Salvadoran prison, including Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García. “If someone is a known gang member with a criminal record, and you’re sure of it and can prove it, that’s probably fine… but if there’s any doubt, I think our process should lean toward double-checking,” he noted.

The White House chief also addressed the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump, he said, “is in the file (…) and does nothing wrong”, specifying that the Republican tycoon “was on the plane” of the convicted businessman with “young people, single people or whatever”.

Wiles assured that there was “no evidence” that former President Bill Clinton’s 28 visits to the island, according to Trump’s allegations, took place. “The president was wrong on that,” he said. This is what, in their own words, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino did with what was in the Epstein files, thus explaining their insistence, before entering the agency, on the publication of said information.

The conversations include several allusions to members of Trump’s cabinet, which also included South African tycoon Elon Musk, who he said “is an admitted ketamine user.” “The challenge with Elon is keeping up with him. He sleeps in a sleeping bag in the executive office building during the day,” he said, calling the businessman a “nut.”

Furthermore, the head of the White House also described him as “a completely solitary actor” whose offensive against USAID, in which he was already involved when he communicated his decision to the White House, left her “horrified”. “I think anyone who is interested in the government and USAID thinks, as I do, that they are doing a very good job,” he said, emphasizing his disagreement with the South African’s actions. “No rational person would think that the USAID process was good,” he added.

In other allusions, he called Vance’s transition from a “never Trumpist” activist to the vice presidency “somewhat political,” and described White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought as “an absolute right-wing fanatic.”

After the uproar caused by her statements, Wiles herself rejected the publication via her account on the social network

Trump himself responded to his comments reported in Vanity Fair, saying in statements to the New York Post that “he would have a good chance of being an alcoholic.” “I don’t drink alcohol, but I’ve often said that if I did, I would have a good chance of becoming an alcoholic. I’ve said this many times about myself, I am. It’s a very possessive personality,” he said.