Susie Wiles secretly alarmed Trump has been shielded from disastrous Iran fallout: report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

April 2, 2026 7:34PM ET


White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is so worried that Donald Trump is being fed a rosy picture of his Iran war that she has privately urged his inner circle to stop telling the president what he wants to hear, and start telling him what he needs to hear, Time magazine reported Thursday.

Wiles, who is battling breast cancer while managing a chaotic West Wing, grew alarmed after Trump's own pollster Tony Fabrizio delivered a brutal reality check that the war cratered in public opinion as gas prices topped $4 a gallon and stock markets tumbled to multi-year lows. To boot, millions of Americans were preparing to protest.

Wiles told colleagues to be "more forthright with the boss" about the political and economic catastrophe unfolding around him, two White House sources told Time. Thirteen American service members have been killed as Trump privately searches for an exit ramp while publicly vowing to bomb Iran "extremely hard" for another two to three weeks.

A senior official summed up the White House's predicament as a "narrow window.". "The President was left frustrated by the predicament, at odds with some of his own officials, and fuming at the negative impressions of the war. The mounting political and economic toll has left him looking for an off-ramp, according to two advisers and two members of Congress who have spoken to him during the last week," the report said.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/susie-wiles-2676658588/

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Link to Time magazine REPORT - Inside Trump's Search for a Way Out of the Iran War

[Blues Heron]

1. The sandcastle is crumbling

[Irish_Dem]

2. What a concept. Tell the President of the United States the truth.

Wow.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Trump rarely wants to hear the truth. He lives in an alternate reality where he is the greatest person who ever lived.

He needs to be in an asylum--or jail.

[Irish_Dem]

6. He and his family should be confined to supermax prisons for the rest of their lives.

[LSparkle]

49. Send 'em to SuperJail (nod to Adult Swim) nt

[maxsolomon]

33. He cannot absorb the truth when it conflicts with his fantasies.

He's been told the truth before and refused to acknowledge it. He lies until reality bends to his will.

[Cha]

47. High Security Max Prison for the

Criminally Insane.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Coddling the prodigal son

at his age!

[Walleye]

5. Maybe quit calling him "the boss". You work for us not Trump

[Bluetus]

23. Yep. And how F-ed up is this that he has to managed like a toddler?

It is the President's responsibility to put people in positions of responsibility who will tell the truth and act in the best interests of the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Wiles can't put this on the sycophants. They are who they are, doing what Trump hired them to do.

Treason -- every one of them, including Wiles who knows these things and has not taken any action.

[Walleye]

24. Providing help to Russia is definitely treason. They are our mortal enemy.

[Tim S]

7. Then SHE should step-up fulfill the duties of her office and make it happen!

Otherwise she’s just another empty suit collecting a government salary at *our* expense.

[returnee]

8. Wait a minute.

She’s chief of staff, right? It’s her job to see he’s getting the right info. I think this ass covering-TSF’s ass.

[Javaman]

9. oh so now she suddenly cares. nt

[displacedvermoter]

10. Perhaps having to contemplate her own

mortality has opened her eyes to the reality of what is happening, and maybe her own place in history?

Nah, what am I thinking.......

[Javaman]

16. " Nah, what am I thinking......."

😂😂

[YodaMom2]

28. Yeah, no...

More like reading the writing on the wall and doing preemptive (reputational) damage control so she doesn’t come out of this covered in stink.

Too late, Susie. Too late…

[Attilatheblond]

29. That, and considering that she probably won't get great medical care for her condition if she's in prison too

[Botany]

11. FAFO Susie

And Mr. Leopard says, burp.

[BlueWavePsych]

12. Kick

[agingdem]

19. Such bullshit!!

Wiles is one of his most loyal advisors..Is she mute?...and if she did tell him the truth would he listen?..no he would not and for two reasons..(1) the venom spewing clown is convinced of his own genius/his invincibility and (2) because she's a woman and he hates women..Wiles and Trump's coterie of ass-kissing enablers pander to the worst instincts of their boss, a delusional degenerate Hitler wannabe..and now Wiles is alarmed..right!!

If nothing else, the fact that he publicly revealed her cancer diagnosis should have been enough for Wiles to tell him to go fuck himself as she walked out the door...

[C_U_L8R]

13. Secretly.

That’s a big part of the problem here. This administration is run like a cabal.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Does she want them fired?

If she's so alarmed she could start telling Caligula that people despise him and he f'ing things up.
Of course as a senior advisor she's partly to blame.

[popsdenver]

18. Oh, I see............

now it's the staff's fault..............

NO ONE could have EVER guessed that Trump, bombing the shit out of some sovereign country, for shits and grins, could cause all of this worldwide shit....

[hay rick]

15. Mother knows best.

[AverageOldGuy]

17. I've been a chief of staff . . .

. . . to two Army generals. Both of them told me from the day I started the job: "Tell me the bad news first."

[Attilatheblond]

30. THAT is what good leadership does

[AllyCat]

20. 2 members of Congress who need to invoke

The 25th amendment. This guy needs to go. Get him out of the WH. It’s probably already too late.

[orleans]

32. the 25th begins with a majority of douchebag's cabinet & the veep who need to say he has to go

google ai overview

Section 4 (Involuntary Transfer/Incapacity):
Initiation: The VP and a majority of the Cabinet (or other body authorized by Congress) declare in writing to Congress that the President is incapacitated.
Power Transfer: The VP immediately becomes Acting President.
Resumption of Power: The President resumes power by informing Congress no inability exists, unless the VP and Cabinet challenge this within four days.
Congressional Action: If challenged, Congress must convene within 48 hours to decide the issue. A two-thirds vote in both houses is required for the VP to continue as Acting President; otherwise, the President resumes power.

none of his fucking cabinet is going to do that... they might lose their job or a pardon they are hoping to get
besides, they are too busy jerking him off to do much of anything else

[AllyCat]

36. Doesn't mean they can't try.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

39. And even if they do it then he challenges it (unless he is actually incapacitated to the point..

...that he is unable to challenge it) and then Congress will never get a two-thirds vote to actually remove him from office.

In our current political climate the 25th is just a fever dream unless the president is so incapacitated that even the vast majority of his own party sees the need to install the VP as president. Impeachment is about the same.

It gets old explaining this to people that think the 25th is some sort of magic bullet or something.... It's not.

[NoMoreRepugs]

21. POTUS unaware of how disastrous things are sums up the trump presidency perfectly.

[3Hotdogs]

22. I know, it's time for a round of golf.

That's what seems to solve all his problems. He wins a trophy and all is good in the world again.

[Historic NY]

25. Operation A F U

all fucked up.

[LeftinOH]

26. She's worried about the what the "inner circle" is telling Trump?

..Um, isn't being part of the "inner circle" her actual job?

[FakeNoose]

27. LOL! Whenever Hitler's generals told him "bad news" they got taken out and shot

How is Chump any different? I mean, besides the part about actual shooting, which he can't get away with in broad daylight. What he does instead is send nasty-grams that are public and vile.

[CanonRay]

31. So Susie, walk into the Oval office

and tell him yourself. What a concept.

[Buddyzbuddy]

34. If only those that voted for him or chose not to vote

could have known about what kind of President he would be, you know like a history of some sort.

Oh, wait....

[Ol Janx Spirit]

40. Even if they didn't know the history it would have been great if someone had warned them...

...before the last election.

Or maybe if they had listened to his own words....

Yeah,

[timms139]

35. Trump has

been nothing but a dumb con used by those who have been planning for years to bring one party rule to this country.

[LudwigPastorius]

37. "...start telling him what he needs to hear..."

Yeah, that's not the way a cult works, Suze.

[33taw]

38. If it is on Rawstory and DU - it isn't a secret.

[BumRushDaShow]

41. The info cited from was from Time magazine (linked in the comments)

Inside Trump's Search for a Way Out of the Iran War

The same outlet that did this cover last fall that he just loved!!!

[Deminpenn]

42. In the Atlantic profile, Wiles said she

saw her job as facilitating Trump implementing his agenda, not to advise him what to do.

Guess she's having a sudden change of heart now that walks are crumbling around her and "the boss".

[littlemissmartypants]

43. FDT and FSW

[Rebl2]

44. If he

finds this out, she will be gone soon.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

45. Then it must stand to reason they will shield him from this too.

eom

[Skittles]

46. that fucking Trumping POS can GO FUCK HERSELF

gawd she is DISGUSTING

[calimary]

48. Well, what can anybody expect from a guy who's been sheltered, coddled, and damn near worshipped

by friends and underlings for so long that it’s just fed his delusions of grandeur and omnipotent lordship.

This, while anybody seeing him on TV can notice how he’s deteriorated over time. And it’s over not a whole lot of time, either.

We are well on the way toward harder and worse times ahead for MANY Americans. Immediately ahead. And Trump won’t notice OR CARE, because his wealth and the trappings thereof keep him insulated from life as the rest of us know it.

No wonder he doesn’t care. He doesn’t have to.


At least not yet.