The second Trump Administration is already making history…
President-elect Donald Trump announced this week that he has appointed longtime GOP operative Susie Wiles as his Chief of Staff.
Wiles is the first female White House chief of staff in U.S. history.
While largely avoiding the spotlight, Wiles is credited with assisting Trump in his most disciplined, well-executed campaign yet.
Trump thanked Wiles during his victory speech in West Palm Beach, FL.
“Let me also express my tremendous appreciation for Susie [Wiles] and Chris [LaCivita], on the job you did. Susie, come, Susie,” he said. “Susie likes to stay sort of in the back, let me tell you. The ice baby. We call her the ice baby. Susie likes to stay in the background. She’s not in the background.”
Trump described Wiles as “tough, smart, innovative” and said she is “universally admired and respected.”
“I have no doubt that she will make our country proud,” Trumps aid of Wiles.
From Fox News:
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Veteran GOP strategist John Brabender told Fox News Digital: “If they searched high and low in the entire world, there is not a better choice than Susie Wiles for White House Chief of Staff.”
When it comes to Wiles, Brabender said, “nobody’s going to have a better relationship with the president, who understands that she is there to help him however she can, and he will respect that.”
“Susie will have no other agenda than helping the president help people,” Brabender emphasized. And he noted that “everybody who works for Susie in the White House will be vetted by Susie which means that there’re going to be nothing but the best.”
A longtime Florida-based Republican strategist who ran Trump’s campaign in the state in 2016 and 2020, Wiles’ decades-long political career stretches back to working as former President Reagan’s campaign scheduler for his 1980 presidential bid.
Wiles also ran Rick Scott’s 2010 campaign for Florida governor and briefly served as the manager of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman’s 2012 presidential campaign.
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had also been rumored to be in the running for Trump’s chief of staff role; “People always ask if I’m going to be chief of staff — no, I’m not going to be… that’s a no,” McCarthy said.
