Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s most controversial aide and the architect of his sweeping immigration crackdown, has lavished praise on the president after his appointment as White House chief of staff.

In his first public remarks since the move was announced, Miller – who begins the role on Monday – pledged “total devotion” to Trump amid concern the administration is now poised to double down on its far-right, nativist immigration agenda.

“If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now,” Miller, standing alongside his boss, declared at an event on Friday evening. “This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. He saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream for ever.”

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    Of course. Trump is the only reason he has any power at all.

    Spam his X with the song “hopelessly devoted to you”

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    Don’t get it twisted. Trump works for Miller, not the other way around. This is just lip service to stroke his ego.

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    “If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now,” Miller, standing alongside his boss, declared at an event on Friday evening.

    This is too much for me.

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      What a loser, only the USA depends on him. The whole universe wouldn’t exist if I didn’t want it to. Source: the voices.

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      It’s the kind of statement that lets you know there’s absolutely no point in debating or talking to him. There’s only going to be unhinged bullshit.

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    This fucker is a Jew. His great-grandparents emigrated from Belarus to escape pogroms. If anybody should know better than to turn into a Nazi, it’s Stephen fucking Miller.

    Why do so many Jews who really should know better turn into Nazis? The mind boggles…

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      He has deep self loathing. His childhood best friend was Latino, and when he realized he hated brown people, he also realized he hated his friend.

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        Today’s Jews have never known abuse. Their grandparents did.

        I’m old enough to have known family members who came back from the camps in 1945, and they told us kids what they lived through. I’ve never known the war or the deportations, but I onboarded my family’s history, and as I result, I have a deep-seated, profound hatred of fascism in all its forms.

        The Israeli Jews, and non-Israeli Jewish sacks of shit like Stephen Miller, decided to ditch their family’s past and onboard fascism instead. Why they’re doing that is totally beyond my comprehension.

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      Almost like Israel, as a nation built to protect human rights from genocide and make the world safer for one people who suffered greatly, should know not to commit genocide.

      The reason we are meant to study history is to stop repeating the mistakes from the worst of humanity. Instead fascists and racists seem to use it as a lesson as to how to try to consolidate power.

      We also need to learn how not to dehumanise other spoke by dividing them into us and them. It’s part of our base instinct from an evolutionary standpoint. But in a world no longer formed of tribes, with rule of law and interconnected societies, ot serves only those who wish to manipulate.

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    Miller scares me.

    He’s absolutely insane. He’s the one who said the US should have a population of 100m people who look just like him.

    He’s essentially what Goebbels was to Hitler.

    The irony is not lost on me that him and his wife are jewish. His stance on immigration is worse than Tom Homan.

    This is essentially the peak of his career. Two years to cause as much fucking damage as he can.

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      When I see videos of this asshole in high school, it makes me wonder how much or how little bullying he received.

      I’m Gen X and when I watch this jagoff shooting off his mouth on the bus or on that mic, all I can think when watching it is “this guy is practically begging for swirlies”.

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        I dunno about you but you can also feel the insane silver spoon privilege reeking off them. He was not bullied because he was part of the “my father will hear about this” club, I would wager.

        If this man recieved even a single swirly in his life, we wouldn’t be here.

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      The hopeful thing is that Trump only did this after the zenith of power waned. If he’d been on top of things earlier this administration would’ve been way more dangerous.

      The most important flaw of Trump is that he can’t envision himself losing, so he’s not preparing for it. Had he listened to competent evil people before and gebed their advice, they would be way harder to defeat. Luckily he’s a buffoon without strategic capability.

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      I think what he does with his power actually makes him worse than Goebbels. Put aside the visual similarities and remember that Goebbels was mostly focused on propaganda and that kind of shit. He was an evil man, but he wasn’t the one behind the scenes engineering the actual mechanisms to kill millions of people.

      Miller doesn’t seem to care much at all about “the message” or convincing people of anything. Dude is just evil and wants to do evil shit and could not care less what people think (as long as he can live on a military base with 24/7 protection).

      I hope people don’t think I’m downplaying the evil of Goebbels, I am most certainly not.

      I think Miller is more akin to someone like Himmler, Heydrich, or Eichmann. He’s somehow worse than Goebbels in my opinion. At least in the context of the current situation.

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        I drew the parallel because Miller was Trump’s speechwriter for most of his stuff and the apparently close relationship Miller and Trump have.

        Looking through what Goebbels was able to do during Hitler’s reign looks very similar to the role Chief of Staff plays in the U.S.

        Interesting trivia - Goebbels had an official goverment position within the ministry of propaganda, giving the illusion of responsibility and accountability. The Chief of Staff is not a goverment official, and is not given those assumptions. However, this means he is also not technically awarded the protections of the executive branch. This is why Chiefs of Staff have butt heads with their president.

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    That is the only skill one needs when working for Trump. Real skills for the job in question had never been in demand under him. Just look at his cabinet.

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    “If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now,”

    Oh, no! It wouldn’t exist!

    What a loony.