Susie Wiles is breaking her media silence by joining Lara Trump for her first interview since the new administration started – and spilling some serious tea about her relationship with the president.
The White House chief of staff tells the Fox News host that her job is to ‘keep the trains on the tracks’ of Trump 2.0, according to a clip that DailyMail.com can exclusively share.
She also divulged how she had to give Trump some hard truths after the 2020 election loss and advised him on how to turn it around in the next cycle.
Wiles, 67, famously avoids media interviews and took a behind-the-scenes position in running the 2024 campaign and now in shaping and directing the Trump White House. But her role was vital to his second win and she is credited with running a tight ship.
The interview with her boss’s daughter-in-law will air in-full on Fox News on Saturday evening in the 9:00 p.m. hour of her show My View with Lara Trump.
Sitting down with Lara, Wiles discussed her personal life but also her goals to help President Trump over the next roughly three-and-a-half years in the Oval Office.Â
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles sat down with Lara Trump for her first interview since taking up her new position in President Donald Trump’s administration
Wiles, who largely takes a behind-the-scenes role, is credited as the mastermind behind Trump’s 2024 election win
Lara Trump joined the right-leaning network earlier this year to host a show that focuses on long form wide-ranging sit-downs with the movers and shakers in Washington, D.C., and beyond.
‘Let me ask you about your overall goals for this white House over the next four years. What do you have in mind?’ Trump asked her father-in-law’s chief of staff.
She listed some of the administration’s major policy priorities, like dealing with the trade and tariff drama, engaging in conversations to ‘settle a war’ and bring ‘peace in the world.’
‘These are heady, big things that are important not for now, but for the future,’ Wails told Trump. ‘Rebuilding the American economy. Getting all these criminals out of our country. Peace in the world.’
‘I see my job as just sort of keeping the trains on the tracks and running on time here, so that the subject matter experts, and particularly the president and the vice president, can do what they need to do to fix the country,’ she divulged.
Trump asked the chief of staff to recall one of the hardest things Wiles has ever had to tell the president.
‘Coming to him after the 2020 election in [20]21 and telling him what he thought was the circumstance, wasn’t, which is how I got into all this,’ she revealed.
‘He said, ‘well, can you fix it?” Wiles recalled. ‘But he’s such a resilient person and he’s seen so much, it’s very hard to surprise him.’
Wiles revealed in her first sit-down interview as White House Chief of Staff the hardest thing she’s ever had to tell Trump, which was disagreeing with him on how the 2020 campaign was run and helping ‘fix’ it in 2024
‘I see my job as just sort of keeping the trains on the tracks and running on time here,’ Wiles tells Fox News in her upcoming interview set to air Saturday on My View with Lara Trump
Wiles and Chris LaCivitia (left) were co-managers of Trump’s 2024 campaign
Wiles is a mother and grandmother who is a lifelong Republican who was all-in on the MAGA agenda when it hit the scene in the mid 2010s. She is the daughter of George Allen’Pat’ Summerall, who was a professional football player and later a TV sportscaster who worked for CBS, Fox and ESPN.
The White House chief of staff did press secretary work for years and worked as a campaign scheduler on President Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign. She was also chief of staff for the Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida from 1996-1999.
Before premiering her show on Fox News, Lara Trump served as the co-chair of the Republican National Committee through her father-in-law’s reelection season and as the GOP tried to regain a majority in Congress.
Additionally, she was rumored to be considering a bid for the Senate as Marco Rubio vacated his Florida seat to be President Trump’s Secretary of State.
But she confirmed last year that she would not seek the position and told DailyMail.com in January that no one was more disappointed when she decided to take her name out of the hat than her father-in-law.
Since taking over the 9:00 p.m. Saturday night slot on Fox, Trump has garnered the highest-rated viewership in that hour with 1.9 million viewers.
She has brought in 195,000 viewers aged between 25 and 54 and increased that demographic viewership by 73 percent compared to ratings from 2024.Â
Wiles stands over Trump’s shoulder during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office on February 4, 2025