Top Trump aide Susie Wiles — the famously tight-lipped operative credited with turning Trump’s 2024 campaign into a far more disciplined operation than the chaos circus of years past — fired off a stern warning to staffers in March demanding they stop blabbing to reporters.

Naturally, the email wound up in the hands of reporters.

According to a leaked memo obtained by Politico’s West Wing Playbook, Wiles reminded staff that “no staff member within the Executive Office of the President is permitted to speak with members of the news media without the explicit approval of the White House Communications Office.”

She didn’t exactly leave room for interpretation.

“Unauthorized leaks will not be tolerated and are subject to sanction up to and including termination,” Wiles warned in the email, adding that leaks can create “significant disruption to ongoing operations” and “potentially endanger missions and activities of national significance.”

The leak itself instantly became catnip for Washington insiders, because nothing delights the DC press corps more than a “do not leak this” memo getting leaked within minutes. It’s the Beltway equivalent of slipping on a banana peel while lecturing people about workplace safety.

Still, Wiles’ frustration isn’t exactly hard to understand.

Trump’s second administration has been trying to project a much more buttoned-up image than the free-for-all of his first term, when anonymous quotes flew around Washington faster than subpoenas at a January 6 hearing. Wiles — a veteran Florida strategist nicknamed the “Ice Maiden” for her calm, controlled style — has spent months trying to lock down message discipline and keep internal palace intrigue from becoming daily cable-news fodder.

One source familiar with the situation told Politico the memo wasn’t triggered by one specific leak so much as Wiles becoming “generally very frustrated” with the constant drip-drip-drip of unauthorized chatter.

White House spokeswoman Liz Huston backed the crackdown, insisting administration staffers are operating under “a zero-tolerance policy against speaking to the media without explicit authorization” from the communications shop.

That’s easier said than done in Washington, where leaking is less a bad habit than an Olympic sport.

Speaking Thursday while accepting the “Woman of Valor” award at the Independent Women’s gala, Wiles joked about whether she still quietly backchannels with reporters.

“And if I do, I get in trouble at the White House,” she quipped. “I have a couple of friends in the reporter ranks, but we keep it to friendship.”