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Initial Cabinet Gender Distribution
Breakdown of the original cabinet appointments by gender
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Susie Wiles | Chief of Staff, Father, Trump, Vanity Fair, Education ...
Top Questions What are Susie Wiles’s notable achievements? Who is Susie Wiles’s father? Was Susie Wiles diagnosed with breast cancer? Who is Susie Wiles’s husband? News • Susie Wiles (born May 14, 1957, New Jersey) is an American political consultant who serves as White House chief of staff (2025– ) in the second administration of Pres. Donald Trump. She is the first woman to hold the post. Wiles previously worked on a number of Republican campaigns and was considered the architect of Trump’s reelection in 2024. Early life She was born Susan (“Susie”) Summerall, the only daughter of Katharine (née Jacobs) and Pat Summerall, the latter of whom was a kicker for the New York Giants and then a popular broadcaster. The family lived in Saddle River, New Jersey, and Susie Summerall later attended the University of Maryland, graduating in 1979 with a degree in English. In 1992 she played a key role in her father’s decision to seek treatment for his addiction to alcohol. Political career Presidential CampaignsRonald Reagan (1980): wonGeorge H.W. Bush (1988): wonJon Huntsman (2012): lost; Wiles left the campaign before he withdrew during the primariesDonald Trump (2016): wonDonald Trump (2020): lostDonald Trump (2024): won That same year Summerall began her career in politics as a staffer for Jack Kemp, a Republican U.S. representative and former NFL player. She then became involved in campaigns and helped presidential candidates Ronald Reagan and later George H.W. Bush win election in 1980 and 1988, respectively. About this time she married Lanny Wiles, a Republican consultant. The couple lived in Florida, and they had two daughters before divorcing in 2017. Beginning in the 1990s, Wiles focused on local politics in Jacksonville, Florida. She helped John Delaney (served 1995–2003) and then John Peyton (served 2003–11) be elected mayor of the city, and she served on their staffs. In Politico Magazine’s 2024 profile on Wiles, Peyton said she “is a brilliant tactician, an enabler, who helps her boss to set and achieve their priorities.” Wiles, who preferred to stay behind the scenes, also showed a knack for identifying up-and-coming politicians. In 2010 she helped run Rick Scott’s campaign for governor of Florida. A businessman who was considered a long-shot candidate, Scott was narrowly elected; he later became a U.S. senator. Wiles subsequently worked as a lobbyist at Ballard Partners and then at Mercury Public Affairs. Trump campaigns Did You Know?Donald Trump ha...
Tee Ashby (@teeashby): "Susie Wiles, Trump's Chief of ... - Substack
Susie Wiles, Trump’s Chief of Staff: What’s Her Real Deal with Netanyahu?If you’ve been following the second Trump administration, you’ve probably heard the name Susie Wiles. She’s the woman Trump calls the “Ice Maiden”—cool, collected, and famously drama-free. But behind that calm exterior is one of the most powerful gatekeepers in Washington, and her connection to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a lot more tangled than you might think. So let’s break it down: who is Wiles, what’s her history with Bibi, and how does she actually serve Israeli interests from her perch in the West Wing? First, a quick who’s who. Susie Wiles is a Florida political veteran who helped Trump win the state in 2016 and then ran his entire 2024 campaign. She’s not a firebrand ideologue; she’s a disciplined operative who controls access to the president, manages the flow of information, and keeps the trains running on time. In a Trump White House, that’s no small feat. Her nickname, “Ice Maiden,” comes from her ability to stay unflappable while everyone else is losing their minds. Now, the Netanyahu connection. It’s real, but it’s not as simple as “she’s his agent inside the White House.” Back in 2020, Wiles was part of a small team of Trump advisers who actually traveled to Israel to help Netanyahu’s reelection campaign. That’s a direct, hands‑on relationship—she worked for the guy. She’s also taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from AIPAC, the powerful pro‑Israel lobbying group, over the years. Interestingly though, Wiles warned about the domestic optics of Trump looking too chummy with Bibi, saying bluntly, “There’s an audience here that doesn’t like that.” That may not the talk of a blind loyalist. So how does she serve Israeli interests inside the White House? Not by being Netanyahu’s puppet. Instead, she serves them in a much more indirect – and arguably more powerful – way. Her number one loyalty is to Donald Trump. So she says. She believes a stable, disciplined White House can actually get things done, including Trump’s pro‑Israel agenda: moving the embassy to Jerusalem, brokering the Abraham Accords, you name it. By keeping the bureaucracy in line and making sure only loyalists get key jobs, she helps Trump execute his own strongly pro‑Israel vision without drama. Cough, cough - wink, wink.Think of her as a double agent, the same ones you have seen in the Hollywood movies. When the rest of the team got frustrated with Bibi’s stonewalling, Wiles made sure t...
Trump's Cabinet is down three women after Chavez-Deremer exit
An area chart showing the number of women in the Cabinet from Reagan's inauguration on Jan. 20, 1981 through April 21, 2026. Until Biden's presidency, there were never more than six women on the Cabinet at a time. That spiked to a high of 13 for a period of time under Biden. It dropped to eight upon Trump's second inauguration, and fell to five after the firings of Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi ...
What the sudden turnover in Trump's Cabinet means for him politically - NPR
With the news that Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer would be leaving her post later this year, President Trump has lost three high-profile women on his Cabinet in a little over a month.
