Secretary of State Marco Rubio has claimed Vanity Fair deliberately doctored their White House expose to make Donald Trump’s team “look bad.” The prestigious magazine published an explosive two-part exclusive on Tuesday, based on a year of interviews with Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and other Trump figureheads by reporter Chris Whipple.

In the interview, Wiles describes Donald Trump as having an "alcoholic's personality" and JD Vance as having been a "conspiracy theorist" for a decade.

“Why Vanity Fair,” wondered one White House official, who, like others in this story, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the fallout. “They’ve never been remotely good to us.” They added it was “very, very odd.”

A Trump administration official knew that Vanity Fair’s bombshell profile was unlikely to land well the moment the magazine’s photographer assembled the top brass for the glossy cover shoot. “We’re all going to get fired for this,