Meet Stephen Miller's Boss: Susie Wiles
The president's chief of staff is the mastermind behind the nation's first troll presidency
Two weeks ago, a remarkable thing happened in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the young family man sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador.
After the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to affirm a federal district court order directing the regime to "facilitate and effectuate the return [of Abrego Garcia] …to the United States," Stephen Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff, lied to a national audience that the Supreme Court said the opposite.
During a meeting with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez, who has become one of Trump’s paid henchmen (apparently in violation of U.S. law),1 something extraordinary happened, even by the standards of this regime.
Miller claimed that the Supreme Court affirmed the regime’s position on the case instead of rejecting it outright. It was as if the Supreme Court did not order the regime to "facilitate and effectuate the return [of Abrego Garcia] …to the United States," and instead said, “We’re cool. Keep him in the foreign gulag.”
Miller also, as is his habit, tried and convicted Abrego Garcia of being an MS-13 gang member, again telling lies about court conclusions over the young migrant’s alleged gang activity.
You can hear Miller’s lies here — I fast-forwarded the video to that point of the cray cray meeting for you because I’m just that kind of guy:
The video released by the White House is a mashup of various forms of insanity, depending on who is talking. We have Pam Bondi, JD Vance, and Kristi Noem (not yet $3,000 lighter) all spouting barely intelligible statements, mostly false, about the evils of immigration.
But what is little known is that presiding over all this madness is the quiet one. Her name? Susie Wiles, the president’s chief of staff and Stephen Miller’s boss.
For those of you unfamiliar with the dark side’s hierarchy, the presidential chief of staff is traditionally the person who gets things done for an American president. It’s been a time-honored tradition since World War II, when Marguerite LeHand, FDR’s private secretary, adopted such an important role as FDR’s human gateway that she became his de facto chief of staff.
After FDR’s presidency, the chief of staff evolved to the extent that they became the implementer-in-chief. If the president wants something done, he instructs the chief of staff to accomplish it. If anyone wants to see the president, you need to beg for his attention by first knocking on Susie Wiles’ door.
This is why so many of us gasped after Stephen Miller, who hates any human darker than an ivory colored bathtub, was named Deputy Chief of Staff.
When his boss, Susie Wiles, was named Chief of Staff, her appointment was regarded by the mainstream media as a good thing. “Competent!” they cheered. “An adult in the room!” they blustered.
Somehow, however, they didn’t do the math. They didn’t add two plus two. They didn’t consider the simple fact that Stephen Miller was her primary report. Instead, they treated her like she was a loyal, but sane, soldier who would guide Trump 2.0 into a brave new world of competency.
And that’s exactly what she’s done, much to the detriment of humanity.
As you review the photo below, which is a screencap of the YouTube video of Trump’s sit-down with his new El Salvadoran henchman, take a close look at the woman, discovered by the magic yellow arrow, who is quietly presiding over the insanity. Get to know that face. You’ll start noticing it much more often after you do.
Why? Because nothing happens during this god forsaken presidency without her approval. More than that, she is directing all the traffic. Standing behind her is Stephen Miller. Next to her, talking, is Kristi Noem (not yet $3,000 lighter). Wiles is watching closely, like all good leaders of villainous minions do.
Do any of you think that Trump, in the mental condition he displays in this video and facilitated2 during the election campaign, was capable of cranking out well over a hundred executive orders, even though they were mostly effectuated by AI?3 The stable genius couldn’t write an executive order if someone stuck a video in front of his puffy face telling him exactly what to write down. We all know this. This isn’t hyperbole or me being mean. Everyone knows this, even his sycophants. Especially his sycophants.
So. Who is Susie Wiles?
Susie Wiles has avoided controversy ever since she began her life as the daughter of the uncontroversial Pat Summerall, a highly successful NFL broadcaster with a silky voice and pleasant demeanor.
She cut her political teeth as a staffer for Republican congressman Jack Kemp, who by today’s standards was a saint. He was a hard-core supply sider who incessantly beat the drum for free markets. But he also defended the rights of undocumented immigrants and was an avid supporter of affirmative action. He was against abortion, but he wasn’t an animal about it.
Kemp, a former NFL football player, ran as Bob Dole’s potential vice-presidential candidate in 1996, giving Wiles her first taste of presidential politics. After Dole lost to the cigar-chomping Bill Clinton, Wiles moved south to discover the joys of interacting with Florida Man in its various incarnations.
One of those was a man named John Peyton, who became mayor of Jacksonville. Peyton, who is now president of the multibillion-dollar Gate Petroleum, a massive, privately owned climate destroying firm dedicated to carbon burning, established a crime prevention program called Jacksonville Journey. It was a blend of tough love and after-school programs designed to keep kids off the streets.
Wiles was Peyton’s chief of staff during those years, during which nothing controversial happened. In that sense, so far, she looks like a breath of fresh air, right?
Next came her first foray into the world of the insane. She became Rick Scott’s campaign manager for his 2010 gubernatorial campaign. I won’t go into the sordid details of Rick Scott’s political career other than to say he’s infamous for leading the march of Florida into the land of the dead.
Much of Scott’s legacy can be found in my essay about Florida here:
Suffice to say that Scott is very rich, and doesn’t want you to be.
After that, she was a senior advisor on Ron DeSantis’ gubernatorial campaign.
Much of DeSantis’ legacy is also covered in “Florida is Dying.” After all, it sometimes takes two Republicans to kill a state, even if it only takes one to kill an entire nation.
Wiles came aboard a DeSantis campaign in disarray. Many Florida Republicans credit her with salvaging the campaign and helping him defeat Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam in the 2018 Florida Gubernatorial election primary.
Wiles has also been a lobbyist for 42 different clients between November 2017 and April 2024.4 The only minor controversy she has run into was when she mixed lobbying with her campaign efforts for the mouth of Mar-a-Lago.
She has worked on all three Trump campaigns, thus becoming one of a rare breed, like her current underling Stephen Miller, who has been with Trump since nearly the beginning: people with longevity in Trumplestan.
Florida Republicans mostly love her because she is widely blamed for credited with turning Florida from a toss-up state to blood red. The state has turned into a massive sewage canal with no home insurance, but dammit, at least the baby killers are being dealt with.
Her modus operandi is quiet accomplishment without the scars of controversy. In that sense, she’s been very successful.
Unfortunately for us, her accomplishments are leading America into an abyss from which it may never emerge.
Soon, Susie Wiles may be able to be the proudly quiet owner of more than the statement: “Florida is Dying.”
Soon, she will be able to quietly watch as the hounds of hell under her watch proclaim, “America is Dying,” too.
Notes
If you are somehow blissfully unaware of the deep hatred surrounding Stephen Miller’s arachnid exoskeleton, you can learn more about him here:
Thanks for reading!
Footnotes
Figueroa, Ariana. 2025. “Experts: $6 Million Payment to Salvadoran Prison Likely Violates US Human Rights Law.” Baltimore Sun. April 15, 2025. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/04/15/experts-6-million-payment-to-salvadoran-prison-likely-violates-u-s-human-rights-law/.
See what I did with the word “facilitated” there?
See what I did with the word “effectuated” there?
“Meet Susie Wiles’ Controversial Corporate Lobbying Clients - Public Citizen.” 2024. Public Citizen. November 21, 2024. https://www.citizen.org/article/meet-susie-wiles-controversial-corporate-lobbying-clients/#_ftnref2.
Stephen Miller, what a sad sack of a man.
Susie looks so unassuming- and she’s really a witch. I wonder what made her so hateful.