White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller got heated on air while discussing Elon Musk and DOGE.
Summary
A heated CNN interview saw Trump adviser Stephen Miller lose his composure while defending government job cuts and Elon Musk’s role in DOGE.
Host Brianna Keilar pressed Miller on the chaotic termination and reinstatement of 300 nuclear agency employees, leading him to angrily demand why she wasn’t “celebrating” government cuts.
Keilar urged him to “calm down.”
The White House later claimed that Musk is not an employee or administrator of DOGE but serves only as a senior adviser to Trump.
“I would say that it’s pretty standard when you’re downsizing government, you make cuts, you assess those cuts. You see who needs to be rehired, you see who needs to be kept, who needs to be reevaluated.”
Um... It's standard to fire them and then decide if you should have fired them? That is truly moronic. I just don't understand how I can think less of these people every time I hear them speak. Is there no bottom? Will they always be able to disappoint me no matter how little I think of them?
Unfortunately no, fascism has no bottom because its existence relies on digging. If they stop radically altering things then their populist facade would collapse. This is why they need new enemies every month and their rhetoric has to get more extreme every time they talk. Miller has always been the most extreme person in both admins though, so you can safely assume that he's where they will be in about a month.
It's the tried and tested Elon Musk method of performance evaluation. Fire all the workers, then be shocked when they don't want their old job back for a lower wage and worse contract terms
All the CEO’s and consulting firms know that it’s standard practice to fire your highly experienced and highly paid workforce and hire undergrads at 1/3rd the cost to save money. That is this lunatic’s mind set of how to run this country. It surely couldn’t backfire could it? /s
I really feel that its best to put him somewhere he can have a real rest, and maybe we can give him a little cut to help with those overactive hormones.
This is Miller's go-to when he doesn't want to talk about what's being discussed. He goes on a hyperbolic rant tangential to the topic to get the other party to ask him to calm down then address his rant.
If it were me, and my show, I would mute him immediately when he started that. I would say, "This is an interview, not a pulpit, not an editorial. I will not allow any guest to take over my show to force their unfiltered messaging over my questions. If anyone gets to editorialize on my show, it is me. And here are the facts as I see them."
And then I would list all of the questions he failed to answer, fact check the ones he did, and then draw my own conclusions based on those lies and evasion, and I would do it all while his stupid face screams ineffectually into the camera, completely silently, until he stormed off in anger. Then I would plaster the stupidest, maddest face he had made in the frame instead for the remainder of my monologue.
It's really not that interesting. I was hoping for saliva to be flying, but that just his tone all the time. He always sounds like the least interesting Housewife, hoping that being bitchy enough will keep her on the next season.
Why not celebrate government cuts? Because all the countries in the world where the standard of living is the best have a strong public service managing social programs!
Id love some cuts to the surveillance state. I bet if we cut their money we could put it into feeding our hungry and helping our disabled live their best lives.
If these cuts are saving so much money, why not use it to fund UBI? If you actually believe their numbers they could have just made a $25k yearly UBI with cash left over.
So why are they floating the idea of a $5k one time payment instead?
Holy moly, this Stephen Miller guy is an idiot! Feels like an overexcited toddler with too much juice trying to tell his mom about the last episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter.