Tales of the Ice Maiden

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Donald Trump is a man who tries to control every news cycle with his never-ending carnival of outrages, but over the past few days he has been caught up in a couple of outrages that he cannot control.  First Trump brought down a buttload of righteous indignation upon himself for his tactless and bizarre remarks on social media following the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, remarks which seemed to indicate that the Hollywood director had been murdered over his political differences with Trump.  The Reiners had been killed by their son, a family tragedy,  and Trump's desperate attempt to insert himself into the story was a repulsive example of his unbridled narcissism.  

In a follow-up a day later to his highly disturbing post about the deaths of the Reiners, Trump got even uglier by saying that Rob Reiner was "very bad for our country."   Many Republican officials expressed concern and even indignation over Trump's callous and very troubling reaction to the double murder.

The public controversy over Donald Trump's disrespect toward the Reiner family was still at a full boil when a second story broke that also escaped Trump's control.  His White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, a woman he refers to as "the Ice Maiden," and who seemingly controls much of the traffic  and paperwork that makes its way into the Oval Office, and who is notoriously press-shy, had somehow been convinced to sit for a long series of interviews with Chris Whipple, a reporter for Vanity Fair magazine.    Whipple's article, based on eleven interviews that he conducted with Ms. Wiles, ran this week, and it had a shock impact on national political players of all stripes.

Apparently, the Ice Maiden became relaxed during the series of conversations and let her guard down.  While she is not yet claiming that portions of what she said were off the record, she is asserting that some of her views and statements were taken out of context, and that she had never been apprised that the conversations were being recorded.   They were more like unguarded, friendly chats.

One would think that a person whose primary function is keeping sleazeball politicians and conniving billionaires away from the President of the United States, would have shown more caution around a journalist whose job is ferreting through other people's lives looking for things of interest.  

But Susie talked, boy howdy did she talk!  Part One of Whipple's article was posted on the internet yesterday.  In it, the White House Chief of Staff gives her unvarnished opinions on several characters who are central to Trump's second term in the Whtie House, including the President himself.

Ms. Wiles, whose father was former professional football player and sports broadcaster Pat Summerall, an alcoholic, talked about alcoholics and their "big personalities," and she described Trump, who does not drink alcohol, as someone who has "an alcoholic's personality," and that he governs with the mindset that "there's nothing he can't do.   Nothing, zero, nothing."  He has, according to Wiles, a "big personality."

She described Vice President JD Vance as having been a conspiracy theorist for more than a decade - to which Vance replied yesterday that he only believes in conspiracies that are true.  Her remarks about Attorney General Pam Bondi generally portrayed the government lawyer as a lightweight with competency issues.  She even went after former Trump buddy and billionaire Elon Musk, citing his goofball eccentricities like sleeping on the floor in the Executive Office Building in a sleeping bag, even during the daytime.   She noted Musk was "an avowed ketamine user," and referred to him as "an odd, odd, duck."

The published article in Vanity Fair was unsettling to the Trump world, but for now they are circling the wagons and waiting to see which direction Trump explodes.

All in all, this was not a good couple of days for Piggy.   The news is so much better (for him) when he controls it.  Tonight he is going on television to address the nation.  Perhaps he will give Rob and Michele Reiner another good trashing and try to escape the Tales of the Ice Maiden - and then he might "weave" off into the Epstein or affordability hoaxes. 

Pass the ketamine.