White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles stunned MAGA supporters after revealing her father is American football legend and sports commentator Pat Summerall.
In an interview with Lara Trump on Fox News on Saturday, Wiles said her experiences with her father helped prepare her for her current role as Trump's chief of staff.
At one point, she discussed giving him tough love to snap him out of a period of late-life alcoholism. Summerall is best known for his decade-long stint in the NFL as a kicker for the Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants and for his lengthy career as a sportscaster.
Social media users expressed shock that someone so lauded for his career accomplishments, who was a fixture of American TV for decades, could be her father.
"Wow. Didn't know Susie Wiles is the daughter of Pat Summerall," one X user wrote.
"What a cool moment, I watched the interview , had no idea pat summerall was dad," another user wrote.
"Did you know that Susie Wiles's father is Pat Summerall..!! Pretty cool," another said.
Summerall was drafted to play for the Detroit Lions after a stint playing for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, and the Lions won the NFL championship that year. He then spent several years with the Cardinals, who were in Chicago then, before being traded to the New York Giants for the final few years of his playing career.
But, most notably, Summerall went into sportscasting after he retired from the NFL. He announced 16 Super Bowls over his career and is the record-holder for the number of Super Bowls announced on network TV.
He died of cardiac arrest in 2013 at the age of 82 after being admitted to the hospital for surgery for a broken hip, with all of his former networks honoring his career.
In her interview with Lara Trump, Wiles also revealed the "toughest thing" she's ever had to tell Donald Trump was about his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden, countering Trump's unfounded assertions that he was the rightful winner.
Wiles said following Trump's election defeat, he asked her if she could "fix it."
"Do you remember the toughest thing you've ever had to tell him?" Lara Trump asked.
Wiles replied: "The 2020 election. Coming to him after the 2020 election…and telling him what he thought was the circumstance wasn’t, which is how I got into all this...he said, ‘Well, can you fix it?'"
