It's Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

And there is a shocking two-part piece in Vanity Fair today.

Shocking for a couple reasons.

One, it is the most in-depth interview, a series of interviews conducted over here, with Susie Wiles, who is the most in-depth interview or series of interviews conducted over here with Susie Wiles,

who is the most important person in the Trump administration that you probably don't know about.

She's the chief of staff.

And in these interviews, she says, some shocking things.

Shocking because most of them are true, and many of them are not particularly complementary to the administration.

She, for instance, said that J.D. Vance has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade,

and that Elon Musk is a ketamine user and an odd, duck.

And she says that Russell vote, the budget director, is a right-wing,

absolute zealot. So is she going to get in trouble? Well, for these, probably not.

I don't think President Trump will punish her at all for denigrating Elon Musk. I think

Russell Vote might wear as a point of pride that he's being called a right-wing absolute

zealot. And you know, as far as the

one statement that she said about Mr. Trump that he might not like, Mr. Trump has an alcoholic's

personality. She, as the daughter of an alcoholic, the former NFL player and broadcaster, Pat

Summerall, knows a little bit about this.

And she says that some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I'm going to say.

But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink.

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