As President Donald Trump rambles and sleeps through meetings, looking only for excessive adulation, there are questions about who is really running the country. Some observers think it could be Stephen Miller, the president’s chief of staff for policy, and Trump’s main immigration and homeland security adviser.
Looking into Miller’s background and credentials, we see a ruthless authoritarian who implements hard-right policies at every turn. He has spent ten years of rising influence in the Trump world. Recommended initially by Steve Bannon, he served as a senior adviser and director of speechwriting during Trump’s first term. When Trump lost the 2020 election, Miller remained on board. He proclaimed the election “fake” and played a role in setting up bogus electors.
Upon Trump’s return to power, Miller became an even more influential figure in the second-term administration. As the architect of domestic hardline policies, he has instituted an unforgiving regime, working less as a government advisor and more like a wartime general and a feared power behind the throne. Starting in January, 2025, he established morning briefings even on Saturdays, accepting no excuses. He demands progress reports from heads of FBI, CBP, ICE, HHS, and DOD. His orders veer on hectoring, and he frequently yells at everyone.
Miller ruthlessly pursues the president’s vision especially when it comes to pushing immigrants out of the country. He wants 3,000 arrests a day, 10 times the number achieved in 2024. He has backed the use of laws such as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to quickly carry out deportations.
Credit Miller with Trump’s draconian family-separation policies. He has pushed for bans
on Chinese student visas and encouraged Trump gradually to end birthright citizenship saying such an aboltion it “would be a dream come true.” Miller also worked with Elon Musk, advising him on gutting the federal bureaucracy.
Miller was born in Santa Monica, son of Miriam and Michael Miller. His dad is of Askenazi Jewish descent and Stephen attended Hebrew school where classmates thought of him as a contrarian. Like his father, Stephen was known in school as a nonconformist. He read Ayn Rand in high school and wore tailored suits. At Duke University, he wrote a column for the student newspaper and was an outspoken backer of the Duke lacrosse team members during their rape trial, insisting that they were targets as white males. Miller counted his lacrosse team defense as his “greatest college achievement.”
After graduating from Duke with a political science degree, Miller skipped law school admission tests and went straight into politics. He served on the staff of Rep. Michele Bachman and then with Rep. John Shadegg and for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions. While Session’s aide, Miller worked to influence Breitbart News, championing a far-right nationalist viewpoint. It was through his work with Breitbart that Miller became involved with Steve Bannon, a close ally of Trump.
Early on, political observers dubbed Bannon “Trump’s Brain.” More recently there has been pinpointing Miller as “Trump’s Brain.” But, in the aftermath of ICE invasion of Minneapolis streets and the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, there may be reason to wonder about Miller’s continuing dominance — since Trump softened his rhetoric.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has deflected criticism by saying “Everything I’ve done, I have done at the direction of the president and Stephen Miller.” Subsequently Trump removed Border Control commander Greg Bovino and dispatched Border Czar Tom Homan, a critic of the excessive heavy-handed enforcement pushed by Miller.
Trump also summoned Noem to a two-hour meeting, not attended by Miller. What was said at the meeting isn’t clear but Noem has complained privately that she was being hung out to dry over the street episodes. Trump apparently used the meeting to take a
slap at Noem’s handling of the fatal shootings.
Afterwards, Press Secretary Karoline Levitt defended both Miller and Noem to the media, asserting “the president loves Miller” and that Noem’s job is safe. Trump would only say, “We’re reviewing everything and will come to a determination.” He talked about a subsequent “warm interview” with Minnesota Gov. Walz and noted Homan’s meeting with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
The lethal shootings prompted congressional Democrats and several Republican lawmakers to call for Noem to step down or be forced out. Second Amendment supporters took issue with Trump’s critical remarks about Pretti’s carrying a licensed weapon into the confrontation. However the shifting divisions sort out, Stephen Miller and his inflexible stances on migration will not be discarded.
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While Stephen Miller was nominally born in Santa Monica in 1985, he really comes out of George Orwell’s novels “1984” and “Animal Farm”.
Robert
“Early on, political observers dubbed Bannon “Trump’s Brain.” More recently there has been pinpointing Miller as “Trump’s Brain.””
Although they can certainly be described as Orwellian, both Miller and Bannon before him are actually aliens, as indeed the various pictures of Miller clearly reveal. Not aliens in the now popular politicized mostly Latin America sense, but real aliens who arrived in big spaceships, most likely some time in the early Sixties. That helps us to understand not only the strange behaviors we daily observe in the White House but also, most critically, Miller’s fanatic determination to deport as many immigrants as possible and with egregious violence. These political aliens are seen by Miller to be potential rival factions. They of course must be eliminated.
Trump’s original brain was removed surgically through an incision carefully made in his scalp with a laser type of apparatus, leaving only a long thin scar. The need to hide the scar explains his fastidious devotion to properly maintaining his elaborate combover. The Santa Monica connection dates back to when its famous pier housed a funky amusement park. In those early days the space ship was parked beneath pier directly under the roller coaster, with an interior stairway leading up to its ticket office. With all the chaos of the amusement park no one even noticed. Later, when the amusement park was dismantled and the pier cleaned up, the space ship was removed in the dead of night to Epstein’s island.
I trust this explanation will prove helpful in better understanding Stephen Miller who, despite being an alien, is not totally undeserving of our sympathy. He is after all a fellow traveler on our shared cosmic journey. We are all in this together.
If you’re last is actually so, we are in deep trouble.
“If you’re last is actually so, we are in deep trouble.”
Maybe.
Ultimately the critical question is going to be whether there is a grand cosmic plan lurking unseen beneath this dense surface miasma of chaos and entropy. The early indications are that the Gaia system of self-regulating balance is about to be overwhelmed. So does that mean we just spin off like mindless terrified lunatics into an eternity of empty absurdity? Or is there another level of structure waiting to emerge? Stay tuned.