an ‘ice’ MAGA in Donald Trump’s hat

Accompanied by his family and the people who have played a key role in the campaign that has taken him to the White House for the second time, four years after having abandoned it, Donald Trump proclaimed himself the winner of the US elections with the repeated promise that he will govern for all in his second and last term.

“I think we have just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States,” Donald Trump exaggerated before a crowd of supporters, ecstatic after defeating Kamala Harris at the polls, and a few meters from what experts say has was responsible for the dyed-hair magnate being the first former president to return to power since 1892 and, at 78, also the oldest to sit in the Oval Office: Susie Wilesthe campaign director who since January 20 – the scheduled date for Donald Trump to assume his position as president – She will be the first woman to serve as White House Chief of Staff.one of the key and most influential positions within the US administration.

This is the first appointment that Donald Trump has announced after winning the 2024 presidential elections and a key appointment to understand the paths that the second term of the Republican magnate may take and the character that the 74th president of the United States wants to imprint on his second and last term. A four-year stay in the White House that, however, has raised alarm bells of concern in other countries and international institutions.

“Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history and has been an important part of my successful 2016 and 2020 election campaigns. Susie is strong, smart, innovative, universally admired and respected” , Donald Trump has said of the woman who will be a key figure in the administration of the US federal government and, also, the one in charge of ensuring that the president’s vision of the country and his environment is translated into policies. concrete.

Among the multiple functions that Susie Wiles will assume in the White House, once she enters it, are those of coordinating and managing the president’s agenda; act as a bridge between the president of the United States and his Cabinet; mediate with Congress and other leaders; work with the communications team to coordinate key messages and, due to his closeness and constant access to the Oval Office, a confidant and one of the most influential advisors on strategic issues and decision-making.

A career Republican who worked for the “enemy”

At 67 years old, Susi Wiles has become a highly influential figure in American politics. With a job in the shadows, away from the spotlight, but effective, Wiles has managed to gain the trust of the Republican magnate because, as the magazine says, Fortune“control Trump’s most problematic impulses” without resorting to arguments or lectures but by showing him that things were better for him if he followed his advice.

Born in New Jersey, Wiles is the daughter of Pat Summerall, a former American football player who died in 2013 and was known for her serious tone as a sports commentator, an aspect that would have influenced the way of working of a woman who moved to Florida when she was young. , accompanying her husband Lanny Wiles, dedicated to coordinating political campaigns.

His first contact with the Republican Party was in the 1970s, with his work in scheduling Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign and then, in 1980, in his administration. Although she temporarily interrupted her career to raise her two daughters, her return in 2016 was key for Donald Trump’s campaign in the State of Florida.

Susie Wiles presents herself in her profile photo on the social network ‘X’ as a humble woman, wearing a blouse and cardigan. Those who know her, she says Associated Press, They speak of a “southern friendliness” that hides a “relentless firmness.” This is how he would have earned the respect and also the fear of his colleagues, in addition to maintaining total control over Donald Trump’s political strategy, to which he has given a pragmatic style that allows the Republican to convince more conservative sectors without losing its essence.

Work for the “enemy”

Although Susie Wiles is friendly in personal terms, she is relatively little known for a political strategist of her magnitude. He rarely gives interviews and avoids any public exposure as much as possible. Despite everything, his resume includes the names of some “enemies” of the new president of the United States.

According to Reuters, For years he worked with a wing of Republicans somewhat more moderate than Donald Trump. At the beginning of his career, he worked with figures such as Jack Kemp, a fervent defender of free trade, or Tillie Fowler, who promoted policies very different from those currently proposed. He also worked with one of the most critical voices of the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.

Later, Wiles began working for more radical Republican Party figures who would be key allies in building Donald Trump’s political career, such as Senator Rick Scott or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who fired her in 2018 for lack of understanding after he took office. Six years later, in the Republican primaries, again under the orders of Donald Trump, he took revenge on his former boss with an aggressive campaign to paint DeSantis as unpleasant and out of touch with reality on many key political issues. .

Trump, referring to the slogan ‘Make America Great Again (MAGA), has said of her appointment as White House Chief of Staff that Wiles “will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again,” convinced that will make the country “proud.” In his first term, there were four chiefs of staff. His first choice, Reince Priebus, lasted 6 months before he was replaced by John Kelly, now a staunch critic of the president-elect. Mick Mulvaney and Mark Meadows alternated in office before leaving the White House.