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Calley Means is an American entrepreneur and health advocate. He co-founded Truemed, a company that helps people use health savings accounts to pay for food, supplements and exercise, and co-wrote the 2024 book Good Energy with his sister, Casey Means. An early organizer of the Make America Healthy Again movement, he served in the Trump administration as a White House adviser and then as a senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services before resigning in October 2026.
We have documented 4 statements by Calley Means, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: Former senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., posting on X
Condemned
Statement summary
In a post on X, Means wrote that senior administration officials had called him with stories of what he called Wiles's betrayals of Trump, that people who know her had warned him she has the capacity to inflict physical harm, and that he objected to threats from James Blair. He asked Wiles what he had said that was untrue.
“The amount of senior administration officials who have called me with stories of Susie's deranged betrayals of President Trump is revolting. People who know Susie well have warned me that she has the capacity to inflict physical harm, and I do not appreciate unhinged threats from James. ... What did I say that is untrue?”
The reference point is the allegation that Susie Wiles and other senior Trump aides held back Make America Healthy Again policies to protect donor and industry money. Means stands by his account, describes Wiles's conduct as a betrayal of Trump and challenges her to identify anything untrue.
Role at the time: Former senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., interviewed on CBS's Face the Nation
Condemned
Statement summary
Asked on CBS's Face the Nation whether he had intended to get Wiles removed, Means said yes and that Trump had been subverted by aides beholden to special interests. He named Wiles, Richard Walters, Walker Barrett, James Blair and pollster Tony Fabrizio, and said much of it happened without Trump's full knowledge.
“Yes. I think President Trump has been subverted by people that are beholden to special interests and not what President Trump ran on, and what voters voted for.”
The reference point is the allegation that Susie Wiles and other senior Trump aides held back Make America Healthy Again policies to protect donor and industry money. Means repeats the allegation and says he wanted Wiles removed over it.
Role at the time: Former senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., posting on X
Condemned
Response to this claim
Calley Means says White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other top Trump aides held back Make America Healthy Again policies to protect money from special interests for the 2026 midterm elections, and that Wiles told him she needed money from the sugar industry to win the midterms.
“If there is a factual inaccuracy in what I said, send it to me in writing and I will vigorously correct and apologize for any misstatements. I will note that everything I said is substantiated by other senior officials.
If you want to file a lawsuit and get into discovery of whether it's provably true that Ballard and Continental had an undue influence on the White House policy process, do it.”
The reference point is the allegation that Susie Wiles and other senior Trump aides held back Make America Healthy Again policies to protect donor and industry money. Means repeats the allegation that lobbying firms tied to Wiles had undue influence on White House policy and says he can prove it, which renews his criticism.
Role at the time: Former senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience
Condemned
Response to this claim
Calley Means says White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other top Trump aides held back Make America Healthy Again policies to protect money from special interests for the 2026 midterm elections, and that Wiles told him she needed money from the sugar industry to win the midterms.
“I think it's a little bit of a game where everyone in DC convinced themselves that money is more important than voters. Again, that's the Susie Wiles premise, directly. Calley, we can't do this, I need sugar money. Direct quote. I need the money from the sugar people to win the midterms.”
The reference point is the allegation that Susie Wiles and other senior Trump aides held back Make America Healthy Again policies to protect donor and industry money for the midterms. Means makes that allegation and criticizes the conduct, saying the premise that money matters more than voters is a lie.
Former RFK Jr. adviser Calley Means told Joe Rogan that Susie Wiles and other Trump aides put industry money for the midterms ahead of MAHA policies. James Blair called it false; Sen. Ron Johnson said Means had described corruption in the administration.
