The New York Times posted an article claiming that President Trump’s Chief Staff, Susie Wiles, told Vice President JD Vance to lay off social media because his fight with critics was beneath the office:
In meetings, Mr. Vance frequently scrolls his phone, and he uses social media to fight with his critics. The president frequently posts to Truth Social, but he does not spend time replying to people online, as Mr. Vance does.
Susie Wiles, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, recently advised Mr. Vance to take a break from social media, as have other officials in the West Wing, according to people familiar with those interactions, because the fighting was beneath his office. (Mr. Vance said he took a break for Lent.)
But White Director of Communications, Steven Cheung, said this is absolutely not true and the White House told the Times it wasn’t true, but they refused to publish the denial:
This isn’t true. We denied it to the New York Times and they refused to run our quote. Complete fake news. This supposed “conversation” never happened. https://t.co/P7tqDr9dSk
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) May 30, 2026
It’s not shocking but it is outrageous. It’s one thing to stick by your source, but also publish the WH denial. For them to totally disregard the denial in this case just shows their far left bias against President Trump. And it makes clear, once again, that their outlet is complete and utter garbage.