“In Trump’s first term, there was a huge amount of daily reporting about how his White House was working. And I think the other thing that Susie has brought to the White House is it’s not everybody, but 60-70 percent, of the senior people in the White House are Susie people. And so in that way Trump Trump trusts him. And so that is from the cabinet level, more so in the White House staff because the White House staff works for Susie. But my sense was that Obama ran his White House to the constitutional law professor that he once was.

Source: International New York Times February 20, 2026 16:07 UTC