Susie Wiles

"He’s been through so much: the lawfare, having been the leader of the free world, having had an assassination attempt. He’s a different person than he was."

"I think he's a better leader now [...] I don’t know that I had anything to do with that, but I think the country benefits from it."

"I see my job as just sort of keeping the trains on the tracks and running on time here, so that the subject matter experts, and particularly the president and the vice president can do what they need to do to fix the country"

"The 2020 election. Coming to him after the 2020 election … and telling him what he thought was the circumstance wasn’t — which is how I got into all this."

"If you are in Trump world, you are hyper‑competitive. You want to win."

"Be smart with hiring. Remember what President Trump promised the American people he would do: Set goals and then exceed them in every area, with every staff member."

"I cannot stress teamwork and mutual support enough. ... It's not magic — set goals and timelines for me and the team and then work to exceed them. Simple, yes, but this worked quite nicely on the campaign."

"Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I'm going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I'm a little bit of an expert in big personalities. [... Trump has] an alcoholic’s personality. [He functions with] a view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing, zero, nothing."

"[On Elon Musk] He is a complete solo actor [...] The challenge with Elon is keeping up with him [...] He's an avowed ketamine [user]. And he sleeps in a sleeping bag in the EOB [Executive Office Building] in the daytime. And he's an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, it's not helpful, but he is his own person."

"And the vice president, who’s been a conspiracy theorist for a decade."

"[On Trump appearing to snooze] He's not asleep. He's got his eyes closed and his head leaned back ... and, you know, he's fine."

"Trump doesn't depend on anybody."