The revolving door we saw during Trump 1.0 didn’t get bulldozed along with the west wing. It’s time for a new scapegoat in Trump world and Rick Wilson has done the political arithmetic and concluded that it’s Susie Wiles. Damn. I naively assumed that at least one adult would remain in the White House and Wiles, as Chief of Staff, was the logical candidate. But Wilson says no and who am I to say him nay? Especially since Wiles is a Florida political operative and that’s Wilson’s backyard?
She was the Trump Whisperer. She was powerful.
Now, she’s becoming the target. Not of hapless Democrats or supine media.
She’s becoming the target of MAGA.
Run, Susie, run.
Because here’s the problem: Everything Trump Touches Dies is not a slogan. It is the most reliable law of American politics in the last decade. It is gravity. And you are not the exception.
Look at the wreckage behind you.
Ask Michael Cohen how it felt to go from trusted consigliere to prison inmate to hate object. He took a fall. Trump walked. Cohen still gets death threats from the base and a lifetime of Trump cult weirdos showing up in his mentions.
Ask Bill Barr, who, for a brief shining moment, thought that if he bent the law, corrupted the DOJ, and turned “unitary executive” into “actual monarch,” he would be rewarded. The second he publicly acknowledged reality, Trump and MAGA declared him a traitor.
Ask Mike Pence, who gave this man his entire political future, humiliating himself daily, only to be turned into a human piñata for a mob chanting about hanging him. He did everything right in Trumpworld except the final leap into outright sedition. That one moment of obedience to the Constitution instead of the cult cost him everything.
There are plenty of bodies in Trump world and even more skeletons in the closet. And Rick Wilson thinks that Wiles is one bad poll away from being the next MAGA scapegoat.
Exile is coming if you are lucky. In this era, prosecution is in the cards if you are not.
Right now, in the first eleven months of Trump’s second term, you are near the top of the pyramid. That means you are also in the blast radius.
You have been the one who makes the madness work. You moved the paperwork that shut down SNAP. You are hip-deep in the Epstein cover-up. You helped package tariff carnage as “tough love” to the base. You green-lit the messaging that shrugged at Ukraine being hung out to dry because the boss likes Putin and hates Zelensky. You have been there for the ICE raids, the vengeance executive orders, the loud purges in DOJ and the Pentagon, the daily cruelty and destruction that defines this administration.
You were not the Q-addled staffer in a cheap suit yelling about chemtrails; you were the polished pro who knew precisely what it meant and did it anyway. You are not Stephen Miller.
You knew better. I think you still know better.
That is why your danger is worse.
When Wilson says “run” I presume he means resign. Would Wiles resign? Personally, I don’t see that happening in a million years. I suppose it is possible that she could find a replacement and have Trump say something nice about her as she leaves, make some good sounding excuse, and plug in somebody MAGAfied as the new Chief of Staff. It’s not very Trumpian but I suppose it is conceivable.
Or, she could wait for the guillotine to drop and then forget all the lucrative lobbying contracts on K street post Trump administration. At least that is Wilson’s theory.
This is a tough one to call but if Wiles goes, then that’s pretty much it for the *adults* in the room and the asylum will not only be run by the inmates but by the psychotics on the violent ward. Get ready for the One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest version of the White House — that portion of it which is still standing, that is. And you thought the first ten months was weird.
“Get ready for the One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest version of the White House — that portion of it which is still standing, that is. And you thought the first ten months was weird.”
I thought the last ten months WAS the “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” version of the White House. Only the inmates were running the asylum from the start and Susie “Nurse Ratched” Wiles was simply going around trying to minimize the inmates’ destruction and failing miserably.
I’m thinking if Wiles goes, we’ll be more in the Marquis de Sade’s “The 120 Days of Sodom” territory.
“The asylum will not only be run by the inmates but by the psychotics on the violent ward.”
This isn’t ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’, it’s a nightmare from one of the characters in it.
you mean one more bad poll.
I’m, Ursula, is the EAST WIMG of the White House that TRump demolished, not the West Wing. The West Wing is where governing used to happen. Now, as we have seen, it is the Crisis Wing of the Hospital for the Criminally Insane and the Malignant Narcissistic Personality, and Pedophile Regrouping and Regrooming Training Camp.
“President Trump is formally demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for a new ballroom. Demolition began in October 2025 as part of his plan for a “legacy project.”
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