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BumRushDaShow

(169,909 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 06:54 AM Yesterday

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

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/



Link to Time magazine REPORT - Inside Trump's Search for a Way Out of the Iran War
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Susie Wiles secretly alarmed Trump has been shielded from disastrous Iran fallout: report (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP
The sandcastle is crumbling Blues Heron Yesterday #1
What a concept. Tell the President of the United States the truth. Irish_Dem Yesterday #2
Trump rarely wants to hear the truth. He lives in an alternate reality where he is the greatest person who ever lived. Lonestarblue Yesterday #3
He and his family should be confined to supermax prisons for the rest of their lives. Irish_Dem Yesterday #6
Send 'em to SuperJail (nod to Adult Swim) nt LSparkle 6 hrs ago #49
He cannot absorb the truth when it conflicts with his fantasies. maxsolomon Yesterday #33
High Security Max Prison for the Cha 19 hrs ago #47
Coddling the prodigal son bucolic_frolic Yesterday #4
Maybe quit calling him "the boss". You work for us not Trump Walleye Yesterday #5
Yep. And how F-ed up is this that he has to managed like a toddler? Bluetus Yesterday #23
Providing help to Russia is definitely treason. They are our mortal enemy. Walleye Yesterday #24
Then SHE should step-up fulfill the duties of her office and make it happen! Tim S Yesterday #7
Wait a minute. returnee Yesterday #8
oh so now she suddenly cares. nt Javaman Yesterday #9
Perhaps having to contemplate her own displacedvermoter Yesterday #10
" Nah, what am I thinking......." Javaman Yesterday #16
Yeah, no... YodaMom2 Yesterday #28
That, and considering that she probably won't get great medical care for her condition if she's in prison too Attilatheblond Yesterday #29
FAFO Susie Botany Yesterday #11
Kick BlueWavePsych Yesterday #12
Such bullshit!! agingdem Yesterday #19
Secretly. C_U_L8R Yesterday #13
Does she want them fired? JohnnyRingo Yesterday #14
Oh, I see............ popsdenver Yesterday #18
Mother knows best. hay rick Yesterday #15
I've been a chief of staff . . . AverageOldGuy Yesterday #17
THAT is what good leadership does Attilatheblond Yesterday #30
2 members of Congress who need to invoke AllyCat Yesterday #20
the 25th begins with a majority of douchebag's cabinet & the veep who need to say he has to go orleans Yesterday #32
Doesn't mean they can't try. AllyCat Yesterday #36
And even if they do it then he challenges it (unless he is actually incapacitated to the point.. Ol Janx Spirit 23 hrs ago #39
POTUS unaware of how disastrous things are sums up the trump presidency perfectly. NoMoreRepugs Yesterday #21
I know, it's time for a round of golf. 3Hotdogs Yesterday #22
Operation A F U Historic NY Yesterday #25
She's worried about the what the "inner circle" is telling Trump? LeftinOH Yesterday #26
LOL! Whenever Hitler's generals told him "bad news" they got taken out and shot FakeNoose Yesterday #27
So Susie, walk into the Oval office CanonRay Yesterday #31
If only those that voted for him or chose not to vote Buddyzbuddy Yesterday #34
Even if they didn't know the history it would have been great if someone had warned them... Ol Janx Spirit 23 hrs ago #40
Trump has timms139 Yesterday #35
"...start telling him what he needs to hear..." LudwigPastorius 23 hrs ago #37
If it is on Rawstory and DU - it isn't a secret. 33taw 23 hrs ago #38
The info cited from was from Time magazine (linked in the comments) BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago #41
In the Atlantic profile, Wiles said she Deminpenn 23 hrs ago #42
FDT and FSW littlemissmartypants 22 hrs ago #43
If he Rebl2 21 hrs ago #44
Then it must stand to reason they will shield him from this too. Dyedinthewoolliberal 20 hrs ago #45
that fucking Trumping POS can GO FUCK HERSELF Skittles 20 hrs ago #46
Well, what can anybody expect from a guy who's been sheltered, coddled, and damn near worshipped calimary 14 hrs ago #48

Lonestarblue

(13,487 posts)
3. Trump rarely wants to hear the truth. He lives in an alternate reality where he is the greatest person who ever lived.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 07:01 AM
Yesterday

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

maxsolomon

(38,749 posts)
33. He cannot absorb the truth when it conflicts with his fantasies.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:48 PM
Yesterday

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

Bluetus

(2,826 posts)
23. Yep. And how F-ed up is this that he has to managed like a toddler?
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 09:39 AM
Yesterday

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.

Tim S

(237 posts)
7. Then SHE should step-up fulfill the duties of her office and make it happen!
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 07:17 AM
Yesterday

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

returnee

(930 posts)
8. Wait a minute.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 07:33 AM
Yesterday

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.

displacedvermoter

(4,554 posts)
10. Perhaps having to contemplate her own
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 08:05 AM
Yesterday

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

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

YodaMom2

(195 posts)
28. Yeah, no...
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:22 AM
Yesterday
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

(8,889 posts)
29. That, and considering that she probably won't get great medical care for her condition if she's in prison too
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 12:41 PM
Yesterday

agingdem

(8,859 posts)
19. Such bullshit!!
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 09:11 AM
Yesterday

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

(49,396 posts)
13. Secretly.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 08:34 AM
Yesterday

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

JohnnyRingo

(20,882 posts)
14. Does she want them fired?
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 08:48 AM
Yesterday

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

(2,317 posts)
18. Oh, I see............
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 09:04 AM
Yesterday

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....

AverageOldGuy

(3,869 posts)
17. I've been a chief of staff . . .
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 09:02 AM
Yesterday

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

AllyCat

(18,856 posts)
20. 2 members of Congress who need to invoke
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 09:11 AM
Yesterday

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

orleans

(36,931 posts)
32. the 25th begins with a majority of douchebag's cabinet & the veep who need to say he has to go
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 01:32 PM
Yesterday

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

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,018 posts)
39. And even if they do it then he challenges it (unless he is actually incapacitated to the point..
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:32 PM
23 hrs ago

...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.

3Hotdogs

(15,371 posts)
22. I know, it's time for a round of golf.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 09:39 AM
Yesterday

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

LeftinOH

(5,650 posts)
26. She's worried about the what the "inner circle" is telling Trump?
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 10:09 AM
Yesterday

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

FakeNoose

(41,697 posts)
27. LOL! Whenever Hitler's generals told him "bad news" they got taken out and shot
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 10:56 AM
Yesterday

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.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,649 posts)
34. If only those that voted for him or chose not to vote
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:01 PM
Yesterday

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

Oh, wait....

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,018 posts)
40. Even if they didn't know the history it would have been great if someone had warned them...
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:38 PM
23 hrs ago

...before the last election.

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

Yeah,

timms139

(547 posts)
35. Trump has
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:12 PM
Yesterday

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

BumRushDaShow

(169,909 posts)
41. The info cited from was from Time magazine (linked in the comments)
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:57 PM
23 hrs ago
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

(17,521 posts)
42. In the Atlantic profile, Wiles said she
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 03:09 PM
23 hrs ago

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".

calimary

(90,079 posts)
48. Well, what can anybody expect from a guy who's been sheltered, coddled, and damn near worshipped
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:49 PM
14 hrs ago

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.

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