By Emil Guillermo

Politicians lie.

So, when they tell the truth — or as it’s often described, say “the quiet parts out loud,” it’s big news.

Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, the most prominent woman in the Trump administration, recently gave a candid, tape-recorded, on-the-record interview. The two-part story that resulted from that interview was published this week in Vanity Fair.

Wiles describes Trump as someone with “an alcoholic’s personality.”

That description of the president’s personality explains a lot about why things feel upside down. National guard troops sent into Chicago, Charlotte, Los Angeles, and other major cities; the demolition of the East Wing; the bombing of Venezuelan drug boats without an act of war from Congress; the green light to Elon Musk to almost single-handedly dismantle USAID (the United States Agency for International Development) — the agency that was responsible for saving lives fighting AIDS in Africa.

If you have questions about any or all of the administration’s actions and haven’t heard the president address them — add to that the affordability of everything and the failure to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

It’s refreshing to hear the truth from Wiles.

The man I call CFDT34 (Convicted Felon Donald Trump, 34 counts) has no business being president.

I don’t even want to get into what Wiles thinks of Vice President JD Vance, whom Wiles thinks converted from being a Never Trumper to a born-again MAGA type for purely “political” reasons.

It all makes Vance more dangerous than Trump. He’s less principled and doesn’t have an alcoholic’s personality.

My favorite line of the story is how Wiles describes Trump being impressed that she is the daughter of Pat Summerall, the former New York Giants football player, and former NFL announcer (for a time with John Madden).

Summerall was an alcoholic, which is maybe why Wiles was so insightful on Trump.

According to Wiles, Trump said, “I judge people by their genes.”

Of all the gossipy insight, that line attributed to Trump by Wiles got me.

You got good genes? That’s how Trump judges you.

That is revealing.

The White House can’t say Wiles was lying or taken out of context. The interviews are all on tape.

Wiles isn’t denying anything. And Trump seems to respond to it the way he responds to anything he doesn’t want to get pinned down. According to the New York Post, “he hasn’t read it (the Vanity Fair piece).”

Of course, he doesn’t even read an intelligence briefing.

This is cause for concern. Read the Vanity Fair article yourself. It is a rare example of a politician telling the truth.

Wiles telling the truth explains a lot. We don’t have Trump Derangement Syndrome, after all.

About the Author

Emil Guillermo is a veteran journalist, commentator, and stage monologist. See him on www.amok.com; email: emilamok@gmail.com; Or see him on YouTube@emilamok1

Emil Guillermo

Emil Guillermo is a journalist and commentator. He does a micro-talk show on YouTube.com/@emilamok1

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