Trump Ousts His Chief of Staff. Who Is Stephen Miller, the Man Taking Over?

Friends, a palace drama is unfolding at the White House. It's said that Trump flew into a rage at Chief of Staff Susie, kicking her and her inner circle out of the Oval Office. The next day, Health Secretary RFK Jr.'s right-hand man, the advisor in charge of health policy at the White House, went on the most popular podcast in the U.S., The Joe Rogan Experience, and spilled all the inside details of the White House drama. A few hours later, Trump announced that Susie was out. Replacing her is Stephen Miller. This is the same Miller who, when Trump visited Beijing this May, Xi Jinping specifically paused to stare at for a long time. What exactly has this person done? Why was Xi Jinping particularly focused on him? And why did Trump choose him at this particular moment? Today, let's take a look at the inside story behind this White House leadership shakeup, and then examine the background of this new White House chief. You won't believe it, but as early as 20 years ago, when he was just 18 years old, Miller made a prediction that one day he would work for Trump in the White House. Susie Wiles was the key figure who helped Trump win the 2024 election and later became the first female White House chief of staff in U.S. history, as well as the one Trump has kept on the longest. You have to realize, during Trump's first four-year term, he went through four different chiefs of staff. This March, Susie publicly announced that she had breast cancer and left the White House for a few months. After treatment, she was cancer-free and returned to the White House. How sudden was Susie's departure this time? Just three weeks ago, Trump even said in front of reporters that Susie would be here for a long time. Susie is here and she's going to be here for a long time. The turning point was this Tuesday's midterm elections. The Republican Party lost miserably. CNN reported that Trump was calm at first, but the more he watched TV, the angrier he got. The right-wing media outlet Real America's Voice revealed that Trump yelled at Susie and his close aides in the Oval Office and kicked them out. Why was Trump so furious? It is said that Trump found out Susie wanted to make Secretary of War Hegseth the scapegoat for this disastrous defeat, and was even leaking information to the media to smear Hegseth. Now, that's one version of the story. The mainstream, left-wing media's take is a bit milder. They don't mention the detail about him yelling, just that Trump privately blamed Susie for the crushing defeat. Susie saw this clearly and told Trump, I'll spare you the scrutiny. I am resigning. So, on Thursday night, she voluntarily submitted her resignation. There is also a third version, which is what Reince Priebus, Trump's first term chief of staff, said on Fox, that it was a mutual decision. The three versions vary in intensity, but they all confirm the same thing. Trump wanted to make a change. On Friday, Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House that Susie did a great job, a very good job, but sometimes in life, you have to make a move. Now, what really pushed this leadership change into the spotlight was a podcast that aired that same day. The most popular one in the country, the Joe Rogan Experience. The person on this show is named Kelly Mims. You might not have heard of her, but you definitely know her boss, which is the Secretary of Health, RFK Jr. Mims is RFK Jr.'s right-hand woman, and that slogan of his, Make America Healthy Again? In 2024, it helped Trump win over a huge number of moms as voters. And Mims is the person in the White House who is actually implementing that. But this October, Mims resigned. And two weeks later, she was sitting across from Joe Rogan, chatting for two hours. She talked about three things. First, she revealed the behind-the-scenes process of signing a White House executive order. The most widely used herbicide in the United States is called Roundup. Many people say it causes cancer, and this lawsuit has been going on for nearly 10 years, with tens of thousands of cases weighing on parent company Bayer. And RFK Jr. had always wanted to regulate it. As it turned out, in February of this year, the White House suddenly issued an executive order elevating this herbicide to a matter of national security. Demanding that factories run at full capacity to ensure there would be absolutely no supply disruptions. Why was that? Because farmers needed to grow crops. So in that environment, RFK Jr. wanted to restrict this herbicide, but the White House backed it up instead. What Mims revealed was the behind-the-scenes process of how this executive order came to be. She said RFK Jr. wasn't consulted on the executive order. A deputy just dropped it on his desk, saying it was decided with no room for negotiation, and told him not to approach the president. Susie even called his office personally to say it was off the table. The next day, the order was issued. Now, the second matter is about sugar. Mims, as a core advisor in the White House overseeing health, wanted to reduce sugar in children's diets. And Susie said to her, I need the sugar industry's money. She said Susie told her more than once, we need money for the midterm elections. And there's another thing called Xylazine. This is a stimulant product made from a plant in Southeast Asia that you can buy at gas stations in the US. And it's called gas station heroin. Mims said that originally, restrictions on this product were supposed to be tightened. But in the end, they were relaxed due to lobbying by lobbyists. The third matter is about Susie's daughter. Susie's daughter, Katie, is a lobbyist, and Mims says that any company that hires her daughter gets their related matters prioritized at the White House. In short, Mims believes this White House is the most centralized in modern history, with every policy having to pass through Susie's office. What do we make of these comments? First of all, this person herself is somewhat controversial. She had previously been accused of conflicts of interest regarding a health platform she operated, Furthermore, throughout the entire interview, Mims didn't criticize Trump or RFK Jr. Her entire focus was aimed squarely at Suzy. This actually hints at a power struggle between two factions within the White House. One faction is RFK Jr.'s health group, and the other is Suzy's camp. Although the truth of the details here remains to be verified, one thing is certain. The conflict between the Make America Healthy Again faction in the White House and Suzy's team is extremely sharp. And just a few hours after this program aired, Trump announced that Suzy was out. However, the person replacing her is even more controversial than she is. Stephen Miller, who is replacing Suzy, is only 41 years old this year. In Trump's White House, he holds two positions simultaneously. Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor. Neither of these positions requires Senate confirmation, yet they oversee the two most critical areas in the White House. One is determining Trump's domestic policy, and the other is managing the border and immigration. Miller is the architect of Trump's immigration policy. He drove the first-term travel ban and the border zero tolerance policy. For the second term, Trump has promised mass deportations, and Miller is the mastermind behind the planning and execution. He holds weekly calls with ICE directors, setting arrest quotas, and demanding daily enforcement. Beyond immigration, Miller frequently speaks for Trump on the economy, foreign affairs, and military matters. Those around Trump describe him as a Swiss Army knife, handy for everything and everywhere at once. NBC News stated outright that in this administration, no official has more influence than him except for Trump himself. Not even Chief of Staff Susie can compare to him. Miller is a prominent White House China hawk who deeply opposes communism. When Trump imposed tariffs on the CCP last April, Miller strongly backed the move on television. He argued that for decades, the CCP has distorted global trade by stealing intellectual property. insisting they must be held accountable. He also called it a disgrace for US supply chains to rely on China. In 2022, he posted on X labeling the CCP a cruel expansionist and genocidal regime. So a person like this is definitely worth our Chairman Xi stopping to take a few extra looks at, right? What do you think Xi Jinping was thinking at that moment? Friends, think about it. With Miller becoming a top official in the White House, the voices of opposition are far louder than the cheers. The first to jump up in opposition was from within the Republican Party. Indiana State Representative Marty Stutzman said it was a terrible decision. He said Miller's immigration stance squandered the GOP's goodwill with Latino voters. One lawmaker noted, We told Miller his enforcement policies are counterproductive. Voters and business owners are angry, even in deep red districts. But Miller wouldn't listen. Retiring Representative Tom Bacon said that public opinion on the immigration issue was originally on the president's side, but Miller ended up turning it against him. Another lawmaker blasted him for being arrogant, saying they shouldn't have handed him the keys to the Ferrari. As for the Democrats, they are sharpening their knives even more. A lawmaker who is set to become the chair of the House Oversight Committee next year warned him, saying he should go hire a lawyer. The implication is that a subpoena is already on its way. Online, some have even given Miller a nickname, the American Eichmann. Who is Eichmann, anyway? He was an officer in the Nazi SS, the one who packed millions of Jews onto trains and sent them to concentration camps during World War II. After the war, Eichmann fled to Argentina under an alias and hid there for 10 years. In 1960, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad grabbed him, threw him into a car on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, secretly transported him back to Israel, and executed him by hanging. Comparing Miller to Eichmann is undoubtedly the greatest insult to Miller himself, who is of Jewish descent. But this just goes to show how much his iron-fisted approach is hated and feared by so many. So, where exactly did these policies of his come from? How could someone so young have such iron-fisted methods? So it's time to take a closer look at this new master of the White House, who has half of Washington trembling. To understand Miller, we first need to turn the clock back to 2003. That year, a freshman political science class at Duke University in North Carolina had just A skinny, 18-year-old freshman ran up to the podium and told a professor, I want to work in the White House one day. The professor casually asked, well, who do you want to work for? The student answered without hesitation, Donald Trump, maybe. You have to understand, what was Trump doing in 2003? At that time, he was just a real estate tycoon in New York, preparing for his own reality TV show. Back then, no one would have ever associated Trump with the White House. This story was recalled by that professor on a podcast many years later. Now that Miller has been promoted, this story has gone viral all over the internet again. The professor remarked on the show at the time that this person was incredibly smart and had great foresight. This 18-year-old student was Stephen Miller. You might be curious, why did Miller take an interest in Trump when he was 18? How did he know that Trump would end up in the White House? That's pretty amazing, isn't it? Miller was born on August 23, 1985, in Santa Monica, California, a coastal city west of Los Angeles and one of the most liberal places in the country. His family lived in the wealthiest northern part of the city. They were a Jewish family, and his father was a lawyer who managed the family's real estate business. When he was young, his parents were still Democrats, but this kid grew up to be an extreme conservative. What changed him was a book, a book about opposing gun control written by Wayne LaPierre, the head of the NRA. After reading it, Miller changed completely. Once he got to high school, he started calling into conservative radio stations to criticize the school for being too politically correct. He counted them himself. And he had actually appeared on the show 69 times in total. When he was 16, he started writing letters to the local newspaper, arguing that school broadcasts should only be in English and that Spanish-language broadcasts were a crutch that would keep people from ever standing on their own. If you really think about that argument, It actually seems to make some sense. Friends, do you agree? Let me know in the comments. What really made him famous overnight was a storm he later stirred up in college. In March 2006, the Duke University lacrosse team threw a party and hired two strippers to perform. After the party ended, one of the black strippers called the police, claiming she had been raped by three white players. You see, elite university, wealthy kids, white players, a black victim, all the elements that could ignite America's racial nerves were present. Suddenly, the national media swarmed in, and the local prosecutor, who happened to be running for re-election, quickly came out with a high-profile statement. On campus, protesters even put up wanted posters featuring the players' photos. Later, 88 Duke professors signed a statement implying the players were guilty. Amidst a national public trial, only one person stood by them, 20-year-old Miller. Writing in his Miller Time column just six days later, he fiercely criticized the professors and organized hundreds of students to demand an apology. He then went on Fox, appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show and Hannity's show, saying over and over again that those student athletes were being framed. Later, the plot really started to reverse. DNA testing showed no match, and the accuser's story was full of contradictions. In the end, the Attorney General dropped all charges and declared the three players innocent. Under the immense public pressure from national media and 88 professors, 20-year-old Miller single-handedly won this battle. From that day on, the words, fear of being in the minority, were completely erased from from his vocabulary. After graduating from college, Miller headed to Washington and eventually landed a job in the office of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Sessions was the most hardline hawk in Congress against illegal immigration. He not only became Miller's mentor, but also laid the foundation for Miller's later immigration policy framework. In 2003, eight heavyweight senators from both parties formed the Gang of Eight and introduced a sensational immigration reform bill that aimed to create a green pathway to citizenship for tens of millions of illegal immigrants. It looked like this bill was about to be pushed through Congress. Sessions debated for hours on the front lines, while Miller, as his aide, was behind the scenes churning out press releases and speeches one after another. In the end, the bill died in the House of Representatives. This was the first tough battle in Washington that Miller won. In June 2015, Trump slowly descended the Golden Escalator at Trump Tower to announce his run for president. Back then, Trump was completely treated as a joke by the Republican establishment. The media said he wouldn't last a few months. And among the dozen or so Republican candidates, he was the one given the least chance. Lawmakers and staffers on Capitol Hill couldn't avoid him fast enough. But Miller was the only one who jumped right in. He reached out to Trump's campaign team time and time again. Trump's early campaign advisors later admitted that Miller was the first person on Capitol Hill to truly open the door to the Trump team. In early 2016, Miller quit his congressional job in Sessions' office and officially joined the Trump team. A month later, Sessions became the first senator to publicly endorse Trump. After that, at every Trump campaign rally, Miller would always be the first one to take the stage. He would use the most passionate language to whip the crowd of thousands into a frenzy before inviting Trump onto the stage. At the Republican National Convention in July, Trump's powerful nomination acceptance speech was written by Miller. On the campaign plane, some people would chat, others would doze off, but Miller was always clutching a small keyboard, typing away incessantly. Trump's campaign spokesperson said he was always writing. At the end of 2016, Trump won. The following year, when Trump was sworn into office, that American carnage speech that shocked the world was also written by Miller. At 18, when he casually said, maybe it'll be Trump, 13 years later, he had actually pushed it step-by-step into reality. Once in the White House, Miller served as a senior advisor. While Trump's first term was chaotic, with four chiefs of staff in four years, Miller remained a steady presence throughout. When Trump lost in 2020 and others distanced themselves, Miller stayed loyal, forming a legal team to challenge the Biden administration for the next four years. In 2024, he rejoined Trump's campaign to reclaim the White House. At a rally, Trump praised him, calling him the smartest and toughest person he knows. By this count, from January 2016 to today, nearly 11 years have passed, and no one has been by Trump's side longer or been more trusted than Miller. However, just this January, this iron-fisted figure almost tripped over his own hardline policies. On January 7th, an immigration enforcement agent shot and killed a local resident in Minneapolis, Minnesota. More than half a month later, another American citizen, an ICU nurse named Pratty, was shot and killed by federal border enforcement agents at a protest site. Shortly after the shots, Miller claimed on X that Pratty was an assassin, citing a preliminary CBP report. However, videos from the scene contradicted his account. Public outrage was instant. Both Democrats and Republicans demanded an investigation. Even a Fox poll showed most people believe immigration enforcement overstepped. About 48 hours later, Trump decided to scale back the operation in Minneapolis. He called an emergency meeting to discuss how to de-escalate the situation. And this time, Miller was excluded. This was a rare instance of Trump distancing himself from Miller. Later, that high-profile Border Patrol commander was removed, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, Nielsen, was also replaced. Later, Miller even made a rare confession himself, admitting that border enforcement personnel might not have followed protocol. For a period after that, Miller kept a significantly lower profile. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Trump also privately admitted that Miller had gone too far with his zeal for deportations. Everyone thought that this time Miller was finished. Democrats were calling for him to step down, Republican lawmakers were urging Trump to fire him, and even his most die-hard MAGA conservative supporters were pointing fingers and calling him a softie. If it were anyone else, they would really be considering resigning at this point. But Miller didn't leave. Not only did he stay, but he also staged a comeback. After trouble over street arrests, he pivoted to investigating immigration benefit fraud. When a massive, multi-hundred-million-dollar fraud case hit Minnesota, he teamed with Vice President Vance to launch an anti-fraud task force, targeting scammers, avoided backlash, and earned applause, resolving his PR crisis. From then on, he was always where the big news was. Whether it was the U.S. military raiding Venezuela or striking Iran, he was always in the front row, staunchly supporting Trump. He was building up his strengths while observing from the shadows. On October 15th, Politico broke a story that Trump was calling his friends and allies one by one, asking if he should replace Susie. There were five names on the shortlist for a replacement, and Miller was among them. Trump immediately denied it, calling it completely fake news. During the midterms, Republicans suffered a crushing defeat. The next day, Vance blamed the loss on the war in Iran in a long ex-thread. Meanwhile, Bannon demanded Susie and her consultants be fired immediately. This was followed by the incident involving RFK Jr.'s aide and the revelations on the Joe Rogan show. The more Trump watched, the angrier he got. It was at this critical juncture that, according to a New York Times report, Miller suggested to Trump that the war in Iran needed to be wrapped up as soon as possible, because if it continued, it would alienate the entire core MAGA voter base. That really hit home for Trump. The implication is that Miller secured the White House chief of staff position for himself by pushing to end the war with Iran as quickly as possible. But as for this claim, currently it's only reported by the New York Times, so is it credible? I personally think we should take it with a grain of salt, because the New York Times doesn't exactly have much credibility anyway. CNN says that later, Trump privately asked several people whether Miller was a good fit. Reporters from the Daily Mail say that many big names in the MAGA camp claim Miller is the ideal candidate in their eyes. Then, on the evening of Thursday, November 5th, Susie submitted her resignation. On Friday afternoon, Trump announced that Stephen Miller would serve as White House Chief of Staff, making him the youngest person to hold the position since President Jimmy Carter. As for Miller taking over, no one was happier than Hegseth. He posted at least six messages congratulating Miller, one of which contained only two words, patriots in control. This phrase is quite intriguing, isn't it? Does it echo what we mentioned earlier about Susie wanting Hegseth to take the fall for the midterm election losses? By pushing Miller to the forefront at this moment, Trump is preparing for a direct confrontation with Congress. Because as the Democrats officially take control of both the House and the Senate next January, investigations, subpoenas, and hearings could be underway at any time. White House insiders have revealed that Trump doesn't need a mild-mannered coordinator right now. He needs a wartime chief of staff who can take full command. When the legislative path in Congress is blocked, Trump's only remaining option is to use presidential executive power to force things through. And in the White House, the person who best understands how to use executive power to push policy and how to direct law enforcement agencies to implement those policies is Miller. This sends a strong signal. For the next two years, Trump has no intention of bowing to a Democratic-controlled Congress, and a head-on clash between executive and legislative power is inevitable. And the very act of choosing Miller reflects Trump's art of the deal, playing my toughest card first and then inviting you to sit down and talk with me. On Monday, Miller will officially take office. For the next two years, Miller's battle against the Democratic Congress has only just begun. Where will he lead Trump's next two years? We are bound to see a tougher and more divided U.S. government. All right, that's all for today. Thanks for watching, everyone. What are your thoughts on Miller? Do you agree or disagree with this appointment by Trump? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section. All right, thanks for watching, everyone. If you enjoyed my show, don't forget to give it a like. New viewers, welcome to subscribe to TrueView. You are also welcome to forward and share my videos with more friends so that more people can learn about this information. Alright, that's all for today. Don't forget, we'll see you again at the same time tomorrow, right here on TrueView. Bye-bye!