“My guess is that Ms. Susie Wiles took part because she wanted to be understood, which is almost always a mistake in public life. The accompanying photo portraits are mostly hideous, in Ms. Wiles’s case also ill-mannered and unkind. She is the first woman to be a White House chief of staff, a lady of a certain age and accomplishment who swims in the highest of high seas. She is presented as bug-eyed and insane.”

– Peggy Noonan, attempting to explain why White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles sat for an interview with Vanity Fair when that publication was preparing a vicious hit piece on her and the Trump administration.