MAHA activists celebrate replacement of Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff

Wiles’s departure comes after a sweeping victory for Democrats in both House and Senate races in Tuesday’s midterm elections, which health and wellness advocates blamed at least in part on the Trump administration’s broken promises regarding curbing pesticide production and the war in Iran.Del Bigtree, former head of the MAHA Action political action committee and communications director for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign in 2024, hailed Wiles’s firing on X, saying, “Ding dong the witch is dead!” MAHA insiders have criticized Wiles for months since the Trump administration took action to support Bayer, the maker of the pesticide glyphosate used in the household weedkiller Roundup. Bayer this spring won a Supreme Court case in which it argued for liability protections for failing to warn users that their product may cause cancer.Wiles’s departure announcement came just one hour after Calley Means, former White House health policy adviser and central player in the MAHA movement, criticized Wiles on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience for stalling critical MAHA policy goals, such as setting a formal definition for ultra-processed foods, because of her connections to the pharmaceutical and large-scale agriculture industries.“Money in politics is a big f***ing deal, and the leaders of the government —not President Trump that I’ve seen, but, you know, Susie Wiles, and she’s the same as many others [on the] Left, Right — use this importance of money as an excuse to basically be antagonistic to what voters said,” Means said. For two years, I worked to advance voter promises of President Trump and RFK. But when this level of subversion to voter intent is taking place by Ballard lobbyists, I believe the most effective thing you can do is tell the truth. pic.twitter.com/eHDfgd0JJo— Calley Means (@calleymeans) November 6, 2026 Means quit his role in the Trump administration as a health policy adviser before the midterm elections because of reported clashes with White House staff over their reluctance to advance food reform policies that would upset corporate interests.Vani Hari, another MAHA food and wellness influencer, praised Means as a “HERO” for speaking candidly about Wiles and implied his appearance with Joe Rogan led to Trump’s decision to fire Wiles. MAHA activists on social media celebrated Trump’s decision to tap Stephen Miller, former deputy chief of staff, to replace Wiles.STEPHEN MILLER TO REPLACE SUSIE WILES AS WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFFAlex Clark Voetberg, host of Turning Point USA’s wellness podcast Culture Apothecary, said on X that with Miller as chief of staff, “there is a real shot of turning this ship around with the time we have left and draining the swamp once and for all.”“Stephen Miller loves and supports the MAHA initiative,” Clark Voetberg said. “He is a dad who cares about chemicals in his kids food. We are getting that ultra processed food definition and we will be changing school lunches. Watch.”