Vanity Fair’s glossy, hagiographic profile of Susie Wiles, Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, is fascinating for the candor of its subject as for anything else. (If paygated, here’s a News+ link and AP’s summary.) The attention-grabbing quotes (‘Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality.”’; J.D. Vance ‘has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.”’) are juicy, the normalization of Trump is maddening, the sane woman in an insane world vibe is deeply disingenuous, and the non-denial denials are flying fast and furious, but here’s what caught my attention:

Wiles’s childhood had prepared her for difficult men. She was raised in Stamford, Connecticut, and Saddle River, New Jersey, the only daughter and eldest of three siblings. It was her famous father, Pat Summerall, who put Wiles on a path to the pinnacle of political power. Summerall had been a kicker for the New York Giants and afterward parlayed his knowledge and mellifluous baritone into fame and fortune as the “voice of the NFL.”

I had no idea she was Summerall’s daughter.

The “alcoholic’s personality” description of Trump comes from her experience with her father’s alcoholism:

The most valuable gift Susie got from her dad was hard-earned. Summerall was an absentee father and an alcoholic, and Wiles helped her mother stage interventions to get him into treatment. […]

“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.” Wiles said Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality.” He “operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”

That’s also, coincidentally, the personality of a megalomaniac who hubristically believes that opposing him is a cause of death.

Then there’s this:

Wiles is the most powerful person in Trump’s White House other than the president himself; unlike any chief of staff before her, she is a woman.

That’s not true. Everyone knows C.J. Cregg was the first female Chief of Staff, during the final two years of President Josiah Bartlet’s second term.