Ask almost anyone who disapproves of the Trump administration who the most evil member of it is, and nine times out of ten the answer will be the Joseph Goebbels–wannabe Stephen Miller — Deputy Chief of Staff, Homeland Security Advisor, and apparent sexual dynamo. Miller has taken his lack of popularity to heart, relocating from his posh Washington, D.C., home to the confines of a military base along side several other Trump Administration officials, to avoid interactions with the public.
Miller has been in the public eye since 2017, when he assumed the role of White House Director of Speechwriting. As a result of his influence, Trump’s speeches often touch on Nazi themes and imagery.
Trumps Fascination With Hitler
Trump has admitted to owning Mein Kampf, the book Adolf Hitler penned while in prison. He later denied reading it — just as he denied reading Project 2025 or even having any knowledge of it. That part might make some sense; Trump can be accused of many things, but being a voracious reader is not one of them. Still, his former wife Ivana once confided to her lawyer that Trump kept a book of Hitler’s speeches beside their bed.
John Kelly, one of several Chiefs of Staff during Trump’s first administration, accused Trump of saying that “Hitler did some good things, too.”
In his 2024 campaign — ostensibly to run for president again, though perhaps just as much to avoid criminal indictments — Trump’s speeches repeatedly invoked key words and phrases used during the Nazi regime.
Trump’s claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” is nearly identical to Hitler’s statement in Mein Kampf that “all great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”
Trump also declared that he would “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country” — words that must have come from Miller, as there’s no way Trump could have come up with them on his own. Similarly, Hitler claimed that “the Jew has never been a nomad, but always a parasite, battening on the substance of others.”
And just as Hitler expressed outright hatred toward Jews, Trump used Charlie Kirk’s memorial service to express hatred toward his political opponents.
It’s not just Trump’s speeches. Long before being offered the position of vice president, J.D. Vance speculated that Trump could become “America’s Hitler.” If that’s not a ringing endorsement for someone you hope to stand shoulder to shoulder with one day, I’m not sure what is.
Enter Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller has sat behind Trump for all of this — writing his speeches and whispering in his ear. Often, he emerges from Trump’s shadow to appear on friendly television networks, where he spews his own brand of hate. This has led the Southern Poverty Law Center to shine its spotlight on Miller, just as it has done with many other figures of America’s far right.
His hatefulness isn’t just an act for television. Reports suggest even Miller’s own family has distanced themselves from him — his cousin referred to him as “the face of evil,” and a former friend and high school classmate said Miller abruptly ended their friendship over the friend’s Latino heritage.
This is, arguably, one of the most influential and powerful figures operating behind the scenes of the Trump movement. And he knows his rhetoric is so widely reviled by the American public that he has fled from his Washington, D.C., home to live on a military base.
