A day after Politico reported that President Donald Trump was looking for names to replace White House chief of staff Susie Wiles who has her iron grip on everything, Politico claimed that its report led to a White House ‘freakout’. Because Donald Trump did not like it and even if he could have missed it in his busy schedule, his ‘human printer’ Natalie Harp ensured that he didn’t. Insiders told Politico exactly what happened after the speculation about Susie Wiles’ ouster was reported by Politico. Natalie Harp printed out a copy for Trump. The President blew up and started making more phone calls about potential replacements for Wiles.Trump has reportedly discussed elevating deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller or bringing in New York Yankees executive Randy Levine to the post. Even Steve Witkoff’s name is also under consideration and so is that of federal housing boss Bill Pulte.Wiles and her supporters have “burned up phones around town”, the report said in an effort to get people say good things about her. Another person close to Trump said the West Wing is “in a state of panic” over the possibility that Wiles could be on the outs with the man in the Oval Office.“Susie is looking over her shoulder, trying to solicit people to go out and say good things about her and her team and make it seem like everything is fine. It’s not,” they said.
List of Donald Trump’s chiefs of staff
Four people served as White House chief of staff during Donald Trump’s first presidential term (2017–2021) while this term has seen less friction.Reince Priebus: January 2017 to July 2017. Former Republican National Committee chairman and Trump’s first chief of staff.John Kelly: July 2017 to January 2019. A retired four-star Marine general who previously served as homeland security secretary.Mick Mulvaney: January 2019 to March 2020. Served as acting chief of staff and was previously director of the Office of Management and Budget.Mark Meadows: March 2020 to January 2021. A former Republican congressman from North Carolina who served as Trump’s final chief of staff during his first term.]The comparatively less friction this term is largely credited to Wiles. Not only that, there have been fewer news leaks from the White House this term as well. Susie Wiles was not consulted by Trump before hiring Katie Zacharia as the press secretary and Wiles was trying to rope in a different candidate. And from day one, Katie Zacharia has been drawing flak and her legal degree also came under scrutiny as it’s now revealed that despite calling herself a lawyer, Zacharia neither passed a bar exam nor practised law. Did Susie Wiles’ camp leak the news? And also the news of her possible ouster?