If you feel there’s something different about the second Trump administration, you’re not alone: many have noted that he and his team have brought a more focused, more effective, and frankly more seasoned effort than the first time the incredibly successful real estate mogul and reality television star was able to bring during his first go at the job.

He had four long years to study, and boy, did he learn. Not only did he come in with guns blazing—and a multitude of ready-to-go executive orders undoing the disastrous policies and anti-American vision of the Biden administration—but he had an all-star lineup of Cabinet members ready to be confirmed.

It’s been one of the most stunning political spectacles we've ever seen—or even read about.

Many of the people behind the scenes don’t get a ton of press, though, yet they've been crucial to his recent successes, and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is one of them. She gave a rare interview to the president’s daughter-in-law and Fox News Contributor Lara Trump on "My View" on Saturday and described how she approached her role:

"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," she said Saturday on "My View with Lara Trump."

She added Trump was "ready to hit the ground running" after having four years to consider his agenda between his first and second terms. 

And she’s not obsessing over her gender or her sexual identity the way it seems almost every Democrat candidate does: she’s here on her merits. She’s a human being doing her job, not a check on a form:

Although she made history with her position in the second Trump administration, Wiles said "it doesn't feel any different to me than anything else."

"I don't think I was the first woman to lead a Republican presidential campaign. I don't think I was, and when the president asked me to be his chief of staff, I didn't know that would be the case here. I just keep doing what I think is right. Keep working as hard as I can, and it's working for me."

White House Chief of Staff @SusieWiles shows @LaraLeaTrump her West Wing office and teases turning her patio into a cigar bar if @POTUS will allow her 🤣👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/pw2UTIYyHj

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 30, 2025

There’s something different going on with the White House and Donald Trump in his second bite at the apple. My wife and I—newly elected Los Angeles GOP Chairperson Roxanne Hoge—used to argue about vociferously back in the day. “Why did he say that?!” I would complain, adding, “That just gives ammunition to the left!”

She would argue that Trump won Round One in 2016 because he was who he was, not because he focused-grouped some opinion that made the media swoon.

I think we both had a point. Trump is far more effective in his Second Round, in my opinion, partly because he’s disciplined and partly because he has a vice president in JD Vance who doesn’t play games.

But there’s another person making this happen quietly and without public fanfare, and that’s Susie Wiles.

Trump has assembled a formidable crew—light-years ahead of his previous Cabinet, in my view—and the Democrats have their hands full in trying to push back. So far, it’s been pure Failure Theater on their part.

The joke of the Wiley E. Coyote cartoons, whose popularity peaked in the '50s and '60s, was that Wiley never won. But sometimes, he actually did:

"Winning" is the new buzzword in Washington, DC, and Susie Wiles seems to be a big reason why. She may play from behind the scenes, but from what I've seen so far from the Trump administration, she deserves major kudos. 

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