Donald Trump is leading an all-hands-on-deck effort to defend the White House chief of staff, the subject of a Vanity Fair profile where she got a little too candid about the President and his inner circle.
He talked to the New York Post Tuesday and helped Susie Wiles play clean-up with her comments, going as far as to say that he wasn’t offended that she said he had an ‘alcoholic’s personality.’
The President said he knew what Wiles was trying to say.
Wiles had told Chris Whipple, a longtime chronicler of White House chiefs of staff, that ‘high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.’
Wiles’s late father, legendary sportscaster Pat Summerall, struggled with alcoholism.
Trump’s older brother died of complications associated with alcoholism, which is one of the reasons the president doesn’t drink.
‘I’ve said that many times myself. I’m fortunate I’m not a drinker,’ Trump told the Post. ‘If I did, I could very well, because I’ve said that - what’s the word? Not possessive - possessive and addictive type personality. Oh, I’ve said it many times, many times before.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15389939/donald-trump-susie-wiles-backlash-vanity-fair.html
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