Just when you thought the legacy media had run out of creative ways to go after Donald Trump, Vanity Fair dusted off the old hit-piece playbook—this time aiming straight at Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles. And Fox News’ John Roberts wasn’t letting it slide.

On Tuesday’s America Reports, Roberts confronted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt about the glossy magazine’s sprawling two-part profile of Wiles and the president’s inner circle. The article, packed with dramatic flair and selective storytelling, featured months of interviews and carefully staged portraits of Trump allies including JD Vance and Stephen Miller.

🚨BREAKING: WH Karoline Leavitt on Fox TORCHED Vanity Fair for turning White House access into a “hit piece” on Susie Wiles.

Omitted positives, twisted context for chaos narrative.

Susie is the “Best Chief of Staff in history”

The FAKE NEWS won’t stop MAGA wins. pic.twitter.com/bunCkCd5Bu

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 16, 2025

Roberts laid it out bluntly.

“I mean, clearly there was a lot of cooperation between the White House and Vanity Fair on this,” Roberts said, pointing to the extensive access the reporter was given over nearly a year. “I mean it looks like the White House was working hand in glove with Vanity Fair.”

But that’s where the narrative starts to fall apart.

Roberts then cited Wiles’ own response to the piece, in which she torched the article as a “disingenuously framed hit piece” that “disregarded significant context” to “paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president.”

Then came the question the media hates most: “What happened? What went wrong?”

Leavitt didn’t hesitate—and she didn’t apologize.

“Well, look, I would just echo my boss, Susie Wiles, who is the best chief of staff in our nation’s history, working for the greatest president in our nation’s history,” Leavitt fired back. She called the Vanity Fair piece “another attempt at fake news by a reporter who was acting disingenuously” and accused the magazine of twisting Wiles’ words.

But the real sin, according to Leavitt, wasn’t what was printed—it was what was left out.

“The bias of omission was ever present throughout this story,” she said. “The reporter omitted all of the positive things that Susie and our team said about the president and the inner workings of the White House.”

In other words: same media trick, different headline. Ignore the results. Inflate the drama. Pretend chaos is policy.

Leavitt reminded viewers that despite the media’s obsession with palace-intrigue narratives, President Trump’s record speaks for itself.

“President Trump has been such a productive president and has accomplished more in 11 months than most presidents do in eight years because of his vision and his tenacity,” she said, crediting Wiles for executing that agenda with discipline and focus.

As for the fallout? The White House isn’t sweating it.

“As Susie said today, it’s deeply unfortunate that happened, but it won’t distract us from making America great again,” Leavitt concluded.

And that may be the most telling part of all. While the media churns out glossy exposés aimed at satisfying coastal elites, the Trump White House is doing what it’s always done—governing, delivering, and refusing to bow to yet another carefully packaged media ambush.