苏西·怀尔斯在特朗普第二届政府中是关键人物。美联社/汤姆·布伦纳摄。本尼迪克特·史密斯，华盛顿特派员。
Susie Wiles has been a crucial player in the second Trump administration Credit AP/Tom Brenner Benedict Smith Washington Correspondent. Poppy Wood US Correspondent 5:41pm BST Katie Zacharia’s tenure as White House press secretary was brief and chaotic.
波比·伍德，美国特派员，格林尼治标准时间下午5:41。凯蒂·扎卡里亚担任白宫新闻秘书的任期短暂且混乱。
She had her first day on Monday, delivered an unconvincing performance at a briefing on Tuesday, and was fired on Friday More turmoil may lie ahead.
她周一首次上班，周二在一次简报会上表现不佳，周五被解雇。未来可能还会有更多动荡。
据报道，唐纳德·特朗普正考虑让白宫幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯下台，并在与盟友的谈判中提出了各种替代人选。
Donald Trump is reportedly considering pushing out Susie Wiles the White House chief of staff, and has floated various replacements in talks with allies.
但美国总统聘请扎卡里亚夫人的决定——显然是基于她在福克斯新闻的亮相，且未咨询怀尔斯——说明为何解雇这位69岁的老将是不明智的。
But the US president’s decision to hire Mrs Zacharia – apparently on the strength of appearances on Fox News, and without consulting Ms Wiles – proves why ousting the 69-year-old would be unwise.
凯蒂·扎卡里亚未能参加多少次白宫新闻简报会。AKGS/罗恩·萨克斯。特朗普曾昵称怀尔斯为“冰山美人”，她为白宫带来了罕见的纪律性，常常充当总统最坏本能的屏障。特朗普第二任期早期的很大稳定性被归功于怀尔斯的铁腕管理。
Katie Zacharia did not get through very many White House press briefings AKGS/Ron Sachs Ms Wiles, whom Mr Trump nicknamed the “ice maiden”, has brought rare discipline to the White House often acting as a bulwark against the president’s worst instincts. Much of the early stability in Mr Trump’s second term has been credited to Ms Wiles’s iron grip.
作为一名老练的政治操盘手，她曾管理特朗普2024年的竞选胜利，因清理了特朗普第一任期期间困扰美国总统的泄露和不忠行为而受到赞誉。
The chief of staff, an old political hand who managed Mr Trump’s 2024 election win, was praised for rooting out the leaks and disloyalty that plagued the US president’s first term.
她赢得了声誉，成为特朗普圈子里少数几位能够告诉他不愿听到的事实且不激怒他的助手之一。她不会当众纠正他，而是以一种能保护这名前房地产开发商控制感的方式提出批评。
She has earned a reputation as one of the few aides in Mr Trump’s orbit able to tell him things he does not want to hear – and without provoking his wrath. Rather than publicly correcting him, she is known to frame her criticism in a way that preserves the former property developer’s sense of control.
他们的关系始于2015年，怀尔斯在得知特朗普需要一位了解佛罗里达州的人来协助其总统抱负后，主动给他打了电话，随后帮助他在2016年赢得了该州。
Their relationship was born after Ms Wiles telephoned Mr Trump out of the blue in 2015, having heard that he needed someone who understood Florida to aid his presidential ambitions, and subsequently helped him win the state in 2016.
特朗普在2020年总统大选失利后直接把她拉进了核心圈。她让他相信，自己可以在政治荒原的四年里谋划东山再起，当她的愿景成真时，她被任命为幕僚长。
Mr Trump brought her directly into the fold after he lost the 2020 presidential election. She convinced him that he could spend his four years in the political wilderness mounting a comeback, and was made chief of staff when her vision came true.
2025年2月，威尔斯经常被看到站在总统身旁，此次是在与本雅明·内塔尼亚胡会面期间。盖蒂图片社/安娜·莫尼梅克《名利场》杂志2025年12月对威尔斯的专题报道揭开了她工作方式的面纱。
Ms Wiles has regularly been seen by the president’s side, here during a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in February 2025 Getty Images/Anna Moneymaker A Vanity Fair profile of Ms Wiles in December 2025 lifted the lid on her approach.
有报道称，自特朗普重返椭圆形办公室以来，她一直在悄然质疑他许多令人咋舌的举动，但仍允许他按自己的意愿继续前进。
She is reported to have quietly challenged many of Mr Trump’s most eyebrow-raising moves since his return to the Oval Office, but to have allowed him to proceed with his wishes regardless.
威尔斯质疑埃隆·马斯克在对美国政府部门进行广泛削减时针对美国国际开发署的行动。她曾表示自己最初“感到震惊”，并称该发展机构“工作非常出色”。
Ms Wiles questioned Elon Musk’s targeting of USAID during his sweeping cuts to US government departments. She has said she was “initially aghast” and that the development body did “very good work”.
她据称也不支持赦免1月6日暴乱者，希望推迟特朗普的广泛关税政策，并认为大规模驱逐的流程需要彻底改革。“地球上最有权势的女人”特朗普赞赏她的诚实作风。
She also reportedly did not support pardoning the Jan 6 rioters, wanted to delay Mr Trump’s widespread tariffs, and said she thought the process for mass deportations needed an overhaul. ‘The most powerful woman on Earth’Mr Trump values her approach to honesty.
“我们称她为‘冰山美人’，因为她人很好，直到她决定不再好为止。然后她就会变得很残酷，”他在2025年这样说。后来他又形容她是“地球上最有权势的女人”。
“We call her the ice maiden, because she’s very nice until she decides not to be. Then she’s brutal,” he said in 2025. He later described her as “the most powerful woman on Earth”.
最重要的是，有报道称威尔斯非常看重对特朗普的个人忠诚，并在他的核心圈内奉行一条准则：背叛总统，你就出局。
Above all, Ms Wiles is reported to value personal loyalty to Mr Trump, and has let one mantra rule supreme within his inner circle: backstab the president, and you’re out.
“我不欢迎那些想独自工作或成为明星的人，”她在2025年1月接受Axios采访时这样说。
“I don’t welcome people who want to work solo or be a star,” she said in a January 2025 interview with Axios.
但近日的报道显示，美国总统对威尔斯的态度已经转冷，将她排除在决策过程之外。
But reports in recent days suggest the US president has cooled on Ms Wiles, freezing her out of the decision-making process.
据悉，扎卡里亚女士的任命未得到怀尔斯女士的批准，特朗普在她被宣布为卡罗琳·利维特的继任者前一天就将此次雇佣呈现为既成事实。扎卡里亚女士显然是通过不断监控特朗普的公开行程和网络帖子，以确保自己在他观看时出现在福克斯新闻上，从而引起了特朗普的注意——这是一场长达五天的“试镜”，为争取这份工作而努力。
It is understood that Mrs Zacharia’s appointment was not signed off by Ms Wiles, and the hiring was presented as a fait accompli by Mr Trump the day before Mrs Zacharia was announced as Karoline Leavitt’s replacement Mrs Zacharia apparently first came to Mr Trump’s attention by relentlessly monitoring his public schedule and online posts to make sure she appeared on Fox News while he was watching: a long audition for a job in which she spent five days.
她在讲台上的短暂表现，正是怀尔斯女士一直试图防范的第一届特朗普政府的功能失调回归。
Her brief spell at the podium was the return to the dysfunctional first Trump administration that Ms Wiles had been guarding against.
周二，扎卡里亚女士在首次面对媒体的亮相中开局不利。她仅讲了14分钟，回答了三个问题——全部来自保守派媒体——并把“简短”落实到了简报会上。
On Tuesday, Mrs Zacharia made a rocky start in her first appearance in front of the media. She spoke for just 14 minutes, answered three questions – all from conservative outlets – and put the “brief” in briefing.
她明显紧张且气喘吁吁，语无伦次。有一次她把总统和她的丈夫搞混了；另一次她似乎在念出自己的台词：“充满活力和兴奋。”据报道，特朗普因电视转播她的首次亮相而感到尴尬，且他咨询的少数助手愿意站出来支持这位新人或为她灾难性的简报会辩护。
She was visibly nervous and short of breath, mangling her words. At one point she confused the president and her husband. At another she appeared to read out her stage direction: “With energy and excitement.”The president was reportedly embarrassed by TV coverage of her debut, and few aides he consulted were willing to stick up for the newcomer or defend her disastrous briefing.
因此，她的结局与开局如出一辙。在福克斯新闻主持人肖恩·汉尼蒂——特朗普偏爱的新闻主播——异常严苛的提问下，她结结巴巴。在几天的资历报道之后，她承认自己并非律师，正如特朗普所宣称的那样，因为她在2011年从佩珀代因大学法学院毕业后未能通过加州律师资格考试。
Her end therefore came the same way as the start. She faltered under uncharacteristically tough questioning from Fox News’s Sean Hannity, the president’s favoured news host, when she After days of coverage of her qualifications, she admitted she was not an attorney, as the president had claimed, because she had failed California’s bar exam after graduating from Pepperdine University’s law school in 2011.
她还似乎将自己表现不佳的部分责任推给了白宫。她暗示自己未被询问过简历，且准备角色的时间很少。
She also appeared to place some of the blame for her shaky performance on the White House. She suggested that she had not been asked about her CV and had had little time to prepare for the role.