That rubs the wrong way with me. Trump yeah, but her?

A Presidents Chief of Staff is generally the 2nd most powerful person in Washington.

Keeping things flowing.

I don't trust her at all - I think that interview with Vanity Fair was intentional cover (knowing what she is doing behind the scenes). But we will remember. Trump may not be able to be tried for war crimes, but she and Miller, Hegseth, etc - they all should be held accountable.

Limit embarrassing photos of Cabinet members living the high life on junkets abroad? Keep them closer for easier firing? Easier to keep their noses to the grindstone destroying America? Ensure maximum attendance to praise Dear Leader at Cabinet meetings?

Make it look like republicans are “hard at work at home”. They want to avoid Cancun Cruz type photos I guess.

It's WAY too late for that. Social media has had a field day with Noem, Patel, Hegseth, Bovino, and even Vance!

Or does it include personal travel as well?

because they have apparently been using that for personal travel too. So there is a need to verify the purpose and intent.

The fiasco of Noem and Lewandowski and planes, is a perfect example.

Don't want Secretary X to be photographed in Tahiti during hurricane season, and also don't want Secretary X to get kidnapped. It's probably not a bad idea to know where Cabinet Secretaries are. Remember when Sec. Austin was MIA for a few days because he'd had prostate surgery and nobody knew?

they have a high tolerance for the antics and ridiculous optics of this administration - done "for tee vee". But it's possible Wiles is thinking ahead should Democrats retake the House and start engaging in actual oversight of the use (and misuse) of funds, and that would result in endless negative press.

(ETA - Kegsbreath was MIA for awhile and even I was posting about needing "proof of life" regarding his whereabouts. Same with Keystone Kash!)

... as in, what do they know that they aren't saying? What is going to be happening soon that would make it difficult for those abroad to travel back home? All kinds of thoughts from relatively innocuous (e.g., all the international flights being cancelled due to fuel shortages) to the decidedly not innocuous (e.g., dumbass in chief plans to launch a nuke). Maybe I just have a vivid imagination for catastrophe, but I don't trust this.

The 1949 Geneva Conventions require any high contracting party to search for persons alleged to have committed grave breaches and bring them, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts or hand them over to another party for trial.

Yeah, I know sitting leaders are generally considered off limits, but perhaps now is the time to test that.

And if I were in this criminal regime, I wouldn't be keen on travel for fear some party to the conventions could decide they are all accessories and exercise universal jurisdiction.

Usually, when somebody gets to that level, they know how to behave and the CoS doesn't have to ride herd on ordinary course of business type things.

What a clown car.

Let them go and don’t let them back in.

“have traveled the world to successfully negotiate over two dozen trade deals, expanding unprecedented market access for American farmers and ranchers.”

Sorry - what?