Today was quite a day. There is so much to talk about. Let me start with this. There is a little known tradition in Washington when ever a new administration takes office. The new president's incoming chief of staff has dinner with all the previous chiefs of staff, usually one of them hosted at their house or at a restaurant or whatever it may be. And chiefs of staff from both parties attend. And they all

do this so that they can offer advice to the new incoming chief of staff on how to prepare for the role.

It's kind of a nice tradition through multiple different administrations of both parties.

And when Trump won the election last year, his new chief of staff, Susie Wiles,

reportedly attended one of those dinners too. They each went around the table,

giving her tips as they normally do, for how to do the job. And when they got to

Trump's first chief of staff, Ryan's previous, he had just one piece of advice for Susie Wiles. Just one. He told her, quote,

don't talk to Whipple. If it could be any more clear than that, that is very clear. Now,

Whipple in this case, meant Chris Whipple, the veteran journalist who has profiled just about

every White House Chief of Staff in the modern era and also wrote a best-selling book

about White House Chiefs of Staff. I would venture to say there are a few people who know

more about the job of Chief of Staff than Chris Whipple. But today we learned that Susie

Wiles didn't listen to that advice. And by now I'm betting, you have probably heard about maybe you've read,

maybe you've read a couple times like I have, the jaw-dropping interview with Trump Chief of

Staff, Susie Wiles, that was published today in Vanity Fair by Chris Whipple. Now, in many ways,

that interview has given us the most insight that we've had all year into how the Trump White House operates.

And it goes a long way toward explaining why this administration is as dysfunctional as it

appears to be from the outside looking in. You know, what we all think we see, what we all

think is going on in there. Now, for one, Susie Wiles offers surprisingly Frank Hot takes on a number of her

colleagues. She says that Vice President J.D. Vance has been, quote, a conspiracy theorist for a

decade. She calls Trump Budget Director Russ Vogue, quote, a right-wing absolute zealot. She calls Elon Musk,

quote, an avowed ketamine user who sleeps in a sleeping bag in the executive

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