Late-night hosts discussed the White House chief of staff ’s shocking and revealing interviews with Vanity Fair
Late-night hosts reacted to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’s revealing interview with Vanity Fair.
Stephen Colbert
“If there’s one thing Donald Trump wants, it’s a hamburger,” said Stephen Colbert on Tuesday’s Late Show. “If there’s a second thing, though, it would be to make you think that you’re crazy. That’s why periodically, I like to remind all of you that you’re not crazy. What’s happening is crazy.”
And in the pages of Vanity Fair, “they confirmed it,” via 11 on-the-record interviews with Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles.
“And she dished, bish,” Colbert quipped of the unusually candid look into the White House. Among other things, Wiles told the magazine that though her boss doesn’t drink, he has “an alcoholic’s personality”.
“I think it’s amazing that he doesn’t drink, because he sure sounds like it,” Colbert laughed.
Over the past year, “we have watched Trump weaponize the justice department in unprecedented ways to go after his political enemies like James Comey and Letitia James,” he continued. But Wiles assured the magazine that Trump is “not constantly thinking about retribution”. She also said: “In some cases, it may look like retribution. And there may be an element of that from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me.”
“OK, then, I’ll do it,” said Colbert. “Donald Trump, I blame you!”
Wiles also defended Trump’s friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, because they were “young, you know, sort of young, single, whatever – I know it’s a passé word but sort of young, single playboys together”.
“Yes, young, single, sometimes married playboys in their 40s and 50s,” Colbert joked. “Couple of carefree rapscallions partying with teenage girls and splitting a box of Cologuard. You know – youth!”
The magazine reported that as part of her job, Wiles kept a free-standing video monitor next to the fireplace in her West Wing office with a live feed of Trump’s social media posts. “So there’s fire and a constant stream of Trump’s social media posts?” Colbert mused. “Are you sure that’s your office? Because it sounds like hell to me.”
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