{"id":55455,"date":"2024-11-08T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T07:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=55455"},"modified":"2024-11-08T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T07:15:43","slug":"profile-of-susie-wiles-donald-trumps-new-white-house-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/profile-of-susie-wiles-donald-trumps-new-white-house-chief-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile of Susie Wiles; Donald Trump\u2019s new White House chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP): <\/span>United States President-elect Donald Trump has announced his campaign manager, Susan Summerall Wiles, will serve as his White House chief of staff when he takes over the presidency next year.<\/p>\n

With her selection as <\/span>Trump’s<\/span> closest adviser and counsel in the White House, veteran Florida political strategist Susie Wiles will <\/span>be the first woman to step into this powerful role.<\/span><\/p>\n

But who is Susie Wiles?<\/span><\/h2>\n

The daughter of NFL player and sportscaster Pat Summerall, Wiles worked in the Washington office of New York Rep. Jack Kemp in the 1970s. Following that were stints on Ronald Reagan\u2019s campaign and in his White House as a scheduler.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wiles then headed to Florida, where she advised two Jacksonville mayors and worked for Rep. Tillie Fowler. After that came statewide campaigns in <\/span>rough-and-tumble<\/span> Florida politics, with Wiles being credited with helping businessman Rick Scott win the governor\u2019s office.<\/span><\/p>\n

After briefly managing Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman\u2019s 2012 presidential campaign, she ran Trump\u2019s 2016 effort in Florida, when his win in the state helped him clinch the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years later, Wiles helped get Ron DeSantis elected as Florida\u2019s governor. But the two would develop a rift that eventually led to DeSantis to urge Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign to <\/span>cuts<\/span> its ties with the strategist, when she was again running the then-president\u2019s state campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wiles ultimately went on to lead Trump\u2019s primary campaign against DeSantis and trounced the Florida governor. Trump campaign aides and their outside allies gleefully taunted DeSantis throughout the race \u2014 mocking his laugh, the way he ate <\/span>and<\/span> accusing him of wearing lifts in his boots \u2014 as well as using insider knowledge that many suspected had come from Wiles and others on Trump\u2019s campaign staff who had also worked for DeSantis and had had bad experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wiles had posted just three times on X this year at the time of her announcement. Shortly before DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race in January, Wiles made a rare appearance on social media. She responded to a message that DeSantis had cleared his campaign website of upcoming events with a short but clear message: \u201cBye, bye.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She shuns the spotlight \u2014 most of the <\/span>time<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Joining up with Trump\u2019s third campaign in its nascent days, Wiles is one of the few top officials to survive an entire Trump campaign and was part of the team that put together a far more professional operation for his third White House bid \u2014 even if the former president routinely broke through those guardrails anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

She largely avoided the spotlight, even refusing to take the mic to speak as Trump celebrated his victory early Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

But<\/span> she showed she was not above taking on tasks reserved for volunteers. At one of Trump\u2019s appearances in Iowa in July of last year, as the former president posed for pictures with a long line of voters, Wiles grabbed a clipboard and started approaching people waiting to get them to fill out cards committing to caucus for Trump in the leadoff primary contest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we leave the conference room after a meeting and somebody leaves trash on the table, Susie\u2019s the person to grab the trash and put it in the trash can,\u201d said Chris LaCivita, who served as campaign co-chair along with Wiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another of her three posts on X this year was in the closing days of the campaign, clapping back after billionaire Mark Cuban remarked that Trump didn\u2019t have \u201cstrong, intelligent women\u201d in his orbit. After Wiles\u2019 selection as White House chief of staff, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Trump backer, quipped on X that the president-elect had chosen a \u201cstrong, intelligent woman\u201d as his chief of staff.<\/span><\/p>\n

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She can control Trump\u2019s worst <\/span>impulses<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Wiles was able to help control Trump\u2019s worst impulses \u2014 not by chiding him or lecturing, but by earning his respect and showing him that he was better off when he followed her advice than flouted it. At one point late in the campaign, when Trump gave a widely criticized speech in Pennsylvania in which he strayed from his talking points and suggested he wouldn\u2019t mind the media being shot, Wiles came out to stare at him silently.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump often referenced Wiles on the campaign trail, publicly praising her leadership of what he said he was often told was his \u201cbest-run campaign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s incredible. Incredible,\u201d he said at a Milwaukee rally earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will she have staying power?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

In his first administration, Trump went through four chiefs of staff \u2014 including one who served in an acting capacity for a year \u2014 in a period of record-setting personnel churn.<\/span><\/p>\n

A chief of staff serves as the president\u2019s confidant, helping to execute an agenda and balancing competing political and policy priorities. They also tend to serve as <\/span>a <\/span>gatekeeper<\/span>, helping determine whom the president spends their time and to whom they speak \u2014 an effort under which Trump chafed inside the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly said he believes the biggest mistake of his first term was hiring the wrong people. He was new to Washington then, he has <\/span>said,<\/span> and didn\u2019t know any better.<\/span><\/p>\n

But now, Trump says, he knows the \u201cbest people\u201d and those to avoid for jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP): United States President-elect Donald Trump has announced his campaign manager, Susan Summerall Wiles, will serve as his White House chief of staff when he takes over the presidency next year. With her selection as Trump’s closest adviser and counsel in the White House, veteran Florida political strategist Susie Wiles will be the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":55459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23796,23797],"class_list":["post-55455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-susie-wiles","tag-white-house-chief-of-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55460,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55455\/revisions\/55460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}