"Susie Wiles has the gimlet eye of an alcoholic's daughter. She is always on edge, vigilant to the slightest movement, fearful of sudden danger, and has learned to withdraw herself from the chaos in order to survive. She is keenly observant, sees through people around her who are not drinkers to decipher their underlying motives that might flare into unexpected menace, and practiced in passive aggression of which her interview with Vanity Fair is a classic case study."
"Donald Trump, she stated, has an alcoholic's personality, though he does not drink. She didn't stop there, but elaborated that 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. Trump, she said, operates [with] a view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing, zero, nothing."
"Her father, Pat Summerall, the great football placekicker and the play-by-play broadcaster of National Football League games on CBS for 40 years, was the original bad daddy. Alcoholism does bad things to relationships, and so it was with my dad and me, she said. She remembered him as a mostly absentee father and so drunk he wouldn't recognize his granddaughter, which Wiles thought horrifying."
Susie Wiles grew up with an alcoholic father and developed constant vigilance, withdrawal, and passive-aggressive coping to survive chaotic environments. She is keenly observant and skilled at reading non-drinkers' motives for potential menace. Wiles described Donald Trump as having an alcoholic's personality despite his not drinking, saying high-functioning alcoholics' personalities are exaggerated when intoxicated. She characterized Trump as operating with the belief that there is nothing he cannot do. Wiles recalled her father, Pat Summerall, as an absentee, often too drunk to recognize family members. In 1992 she and her mother organized an intervention to seek professional treatment.
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