Kate Hudson | Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Stuns Washington with Explosive Vanity Fair Comments: A Closer Look

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Seth takes a closer look at the White House doing damage control after Trump's current chief of staff said nasty things about the Trump administration in an explosive Vanity Fair article.

Then, Kate Hudson talks about working with Hugh Jackman in the film Song Sung Blue and inviting herself over to Neil Diamond's house before pitching going day drinking with Seth and the cast of Running Point.

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0:00.0	According to a new survey, 15% of frequent travelers
0:05.0	said that their most forgotten item this year was a phone charger,
0:08.0	while 1% said, Kevin!
0:10.0	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers.
0:26.2	On today's show, Seth talks to actress Kate Hudson.
0:29.1	But first, a closer look.
0:43.0	Trump White House is in damage control over an explosive new article in Vanity Fair in which some pretty nasty things are said about the Trump administration
0:46.0	by a radical left-woke Antifa Democrat trader.
0:49.8	Wait, sorry, I'm reading that wrong.
0:51.3	Donald Trump's current chief of staff.
0:54.6	For more on this, it's time for a closer look.
1:00.5	By now, you're probably well aware of everyone in Trump's orbit,
1:04.3	the vice president, the attorney general, the health secretary,
1:07.8	and the deputy health secretary, RFK Jr.'s brainworm.
1:12.1	But you might be less familiar with the current White House chief of staff,
1:15.3	Susie Wiles.
1:16.2	Wiles rarely talks or appears in public,
1:18.6	except for that one time she was spotted standing behind Trump
1:23.5	in the Oval Office and making a face like Daniel Craig just accused her of murder.
1:30.5	Well, well, look what we have here. It turns out the perpetrator of this.
1:35.8	Nefarious act was Miss Susie in the Oval Office with a rolling pin.
1:41.2	It wasn't me. It was my look-alike Paula Dean. By the way, that photo was taken from
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