'The President Knows Who He Is': Stephen Miller Reportedly Sidelined by Trump Admin
Source: MEDIAite
May 11th, 2026, 1:23 pm
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller is reportedly far less influential now than he was at the outset of President Donald Trumps second term.
According to The Atlantics Michael Scherer and Nick Miroff, Trump has also told others in recent weeks that he understands Miller sometimes goes too far. Millers power began to wane when Trump recognized immediately after the second killing in Minneapolis, of the protester Alex Pretti, that the policy needed to shift. Miller, on the other hand, referred to Pretti as a domestic terrorist in the immediate aftermath of his death.
Recent months have seen Trump backpedal away from numerous policies advocated by Miller, including a plan to cut the number of visas for seasonal workers by 50%, after consulting with border czar Tom Homan. The new secretary is listening to Tom Homan and Rodney Scott before he is ever listening to Stephen Miller, one senior administration official told Scherer and Miroff.
A former official declared, The president knows who he is, period.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/the-president-knows-who-he-is-stephen-miller-reportedly-sidelined-by-trump-admin/
Link to The Atlantic article - Stephen Miller in Retreat
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Marie Marie
(11,531 posts)a total of 1 second. Stephen Miller needs to take his seat at the back of the bus and STFU.
Lovie777
(23,755 posts)rurallib
(64,836 posts)If you think it is bullshit I would be curious why. I know little about this and would like to find the truth.
Thanks
Bluetus
(3,092 posts)A) It isn't sincere
B) it is only a political calculation and window dressing, rather than some fundamental change in attitude or policy
C) It probably isn't even true at all.
rurallib
(64,836 posts)rsdsharp
(12,094 posts)ananda
(35,520 posts)I think it's a matter of increments.
Miller didn't go too far at all.
He just wanted to go too far too fast.
eppur_se_muova
(42,530 posts)Miller will try again later. If not enough pushback, Trmp will go along.
tanyev
(49,692 posts)
LudwigPastorius
(15,018 posts)Does he?
He's so far gone, I thought him putting his face and name on everything was the only way he could remember.
Seinan Sensei
(1,645 posts)Miller (and others) have moved en masse into military housing. Its a gated community, and its rent free.
Miller moved out of Arlington, and moved into military housing because he felt threatened by sidewalk chalk messages left by activists
Blue Owl
(59,634 posts)This psychotic homicidal maniac has no place in any public office.
another damaged sick a$$ cretin who hates women.
GiqueCee
(4,764 posts)... and those around Trump know exactly what Miller is: A seething furnace of malice consumed by the mindless desire to destroy anything and everything good about this country. And it's not nice to upstage President Psychopants. If he's not the center of attention every minute of every day, heads are gonna roll, and Nosferatu's noggin is on the chopping block. But few, if any, will mourn his passing. Word on the street is, Miller is universally despised by everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE!
mwmisses4289
(4,747 posts)You hit the nail on the head. Miller is often referred to as pres miller, and he has upstaged t more than once. Can't have that, so out you go!
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,256 posts)He's at least as dangerous if not more so than Stephen Miller. They are both hate-filled turds that need to be flushed.
Dave Id
(331 posts)People were calling Trump and Musk co-presidents. There's only enough room for one narcissist in the White House at a time, Elon was stealing some of Donald's imaginary thunder.
DBoon
(25,152 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(1,256 posts)Musk is accompanying Trump to China.
calimary
(90,835 posts)BattleRow
(2,717 posts)calimary
(90,835 posts)Last edited Tue May 12, 2026, 12:05 AM - Edit history (1)
Hes obviously starting to have health problems. That has an impact, no matter how you slice it.
But what hes done to our precious country, our laws and conventions, our privacy (especially for women), how we live our lives, AND whatever futures we might hope to have for ourselves and our families
ALL of what hes done is absolutely abominable, and even SINFUL.
BattleRow
(2,717 posts)calimary
(90,835 posts)Fil1957
(887 posts)low until the November election. After which, the knives will really come out.
FakeNoose
(42,445 posts)
BattleRow
(2,717 posts)twodogsbarking
(19,366 posts)patphil
(9,230 posts)Not that things will get better, just different....like Iranian War different.
SSJVegeta
(3,156 posts)Hes a bit of a snake so I can see him slithering his way back into influence at some point.
Skittles
(172,917 posts)disgusting pair
AZ8theist
(7,643 posts)I seriously doubt it.
Dementia Dotard could barely distinguish between the Easter Bunny and his wife recently.
imagine being deemed "unfit" by Donald Trump
eppur_se_muova
(42,530 posts)Maybe we should send him lots of bears.
Bengus81
(10,378 posts)And that was YEARS ago................
Maru Kitteh
(32,015 posts)All sudden like.
underpants
(197,212 posts)I know who Miller is too. Hes a Nazi.
louis-t
(24,654 posts)what an asshole he is?
BattleRow
(2,717 posts)Can he find his a--hole in a well lit room?
Raven123
(7,903 posts)Pinback
(13,660 posts)Miller continues to be on the Felons good side, and it sounds like he has plenty of other evil schemes festering. IQ47 has a better nose for PR, though, and knows the appearance of Full Psycho cruelty turns off some of his voters. Hopefully, its too late for a pivot to make much of a difference fingers crossed that his tanking poll numbers will translate to Dem midterm victories.
BigmanPigman
(55,542 posts)psychopath. He'll search high and low (no, more like low and low) to get another Miller clone.
33taw
(3,368 posts)hatrack
(65,162 posts)Temu Himmler hates the same people his boss does.
The. End.
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