I feel as if making Stephen Miller the National Security Advisor could result in us all dying in a really innovative and non-cliched way. Like not a Tom Clancy disaster but like some kind of John Kennedy Toole way where our demise is the manifestation of incel inadequacy.
I can’t believe it could possibly be true but apparently it is:
President Trump‘s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, is garnering buzz inside the White House as a top candidate to be the next national security adviser, five sources familiar with the situation tell Axios.
Miller — the deputy chief of staff and the brain behind Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown — is one of the president’s longest-serving and most-trusted aides.
- Miller’s name surfaced shortly after Trump removed Mike Waltz as national security adviser on Thursday and nominated Waltz to become the next United Nations ambassador.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio is temporarily taking over Waltz’s responsibilities, but sources familiar with his thinking say he’s busy enough running the State Department.
Miller already is the administration’s Homeland Security adviser, and is an aggressive defender of the administration’s legal push for immediate deportations of unauthorized immigrants without court hearings.
- One White House source told Axios via text that Miller has made the Homeland Security Council run “like clockwork,” and that it’s “infinitely more effective than the NSC [National Security Council] with a tiny fraction” of the staff.
This would make Miller the de facto president. He’s already running the domestic agenda, even becoming the public face of the tariff defense lately. This would give him foreign policy. Since Trump is now just a sort of ancient vaudeville performer now, blathering on about whatever crosses his mind, wreaking vengeance, playing golf and redecorating the White House to look like an even cheaper version of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, Miller taking over a pivotal foreign policy and national security role would take us to an even darker place than we already are.
As I have said before, Miller has his hands firmly wrapped around Trump’s id and he knows exactly how to squeeze it.