White House chief of staff Susie Wiles pushed back Friday against a Daily Mail report claiming she plans to exit the administration following the midterm elections, declaring in a social media post that she is “not going anywhere.”
“After an accomplishment filled week by President Trump, I have the pleasure of reading a piece of Friday fiction, courtesy of the Daily Mail,” Wiles wrote on X. “To be crystal clear, I am not going anywhere. I am honored and proud to serve President Trump, proud of our team and remain fully committed to advancing his agenda on behalf of the American people.”
The Daily Mail, citing five unnamed sources, reported that Wiles was preparing to leave the White House after the November elections. The veteran GOP operative ran Trump’s successful 2024 campaign and made history as the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff. She has already outlasted several of Trump’s first-term chiefs — Reince Priebus, John Kelly, Mick Mulvaney, and Mark Meadows — and is set to surpass Kelly as the president’s longest-serving top adviser later this month.
Wiles’s denial came amid broader tensions within the administration, including over the appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. The Daily Mail reported that Wiles opposed Pulte’s nomination and had earlier tried to have him fired from his role as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency after Trump posted a since-deleted meme depicting himself as a Christ-like figure, which sources said was Pulte’s idea. Lawmakers from both parties have criticized Pulte’s appointment, with some linking it to the ongoing fight over FISA renewal. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has blocked the surveillance law’s reauthorization unless Trump removes Pulte from the intelligence post. Republican Representative Don Bacon has also urged the president to drop Pulte to preserve the surveillance program.
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Wiles struck a different tone, saying she had “observed how hard [Pulte] works at FHFA, and I believe he will bring that same energy and tenacity as acting Director of National Intelligence.”
Trump has consistently praised Wiles publicly, including in March after she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. “Susie Wiles is an incredible Chief of Staff, a great person, and one of the strongest people I know,” the president wrote on Truth Social at the time. He noted that she continued to work from the White House throughout her treatment, a fact he said made him “very happy!” Wiles, 69, said she was “deeply thankful” for Trump’s support as she balanced treatment with her duties.
Wiles’s Friday post also took aim at what she described as a decade-long pattern of media efforts to “manufacture drama around” Trump and his team. “They were wrong then, and they are wrong now,” she wrote. “See you Monday.”
