Liberal Jews on Twitter are tweeting a credo of the moment: Stephen Miller, a top aide to Donald Trump and the force behind some of his most exclusionary immigration efforts, is a white nationalist.
Stephen Miller, the one-time senior advisor to former President Donald Trump who shaped immigration crackdown policies, has launched a new conservative group that could take on President Biden's.
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The tweets came in response to one from Joel Pollak, a writer for the conservative media site Breitbart, who was himself responding to a tweet from Rep. Ilhan Omar. Omar tweeted her conviction that Miller is a white nationalist, linking to an article from 2019 about his role in picking a “tougher” head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Steve Miller is a Jew. An American Jew. A patriot. Not a “white nationalist.”
I don’t believe you should be calling a Jew anything, Ms. Omar. https://t.co/3WPaL2U2R6— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) April 8, 2019
Pollak’s tweet, which was “liked” thousands of times, received a flurry of responses from Jews mentioning their Jewish bona fides and declaring that Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.
Hi, rabbi here. Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. https://t.co/Tk41eSarJy— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) June 22, 2020
Another Rabbi here Stephen Miller is a White nationalist and he’s Jewish. Unfortunately both can be true at the same time.— Rabbi Sandra (@rabbisandra) June 22, 2020
Son of a man who escaped the Nazis but who lost three dozen members of his family to the Holocaust. Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.
I would also add that @IlhanMN is serving her country even as Mr. Miller is working to diminish it.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) June 22, 2020
Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist materials and ideas to Breitbart during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, leaked emails from Miller’s account show. The hundreds of emails, obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, “showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency,” the Center wrote in its corresponding report.
Miller, in pushing back against allegations that he is a white nationalist or a white supremacist, has suggested that the allegations are anti-Semitic, similar to the implication in Pollak’s tweet.
“It is an attempt on the part of the Democratic Party to attack and demonize a Jewish staffer,” Miller said after the release of the SPLC report. “And make no mistake, there is a deep vein of anti-Semitism that is running through today’s Democratic Party.”
Miller has come under scorn from his Jewish relatives, who have noted that his great-grandparents were themselves immigrants who succeeded in the so-called American dream.
Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. Contact him at feldman@forward.com or follow him on Twitter @aefeldman
The many who worked for Trump during his four cataclysmic years in office are currently struggling to find second acts for their careers, and unfortunately there are only so many pundit spots open at Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN. But none have the infamy of Stephen Miller, the former president’s senior advisor. Widely perceived as a draconian, immigrant-hating white nationalist who, like some monsters, is prone to public embarrassment, he’s been trying to rebrand as just another Republican culture warrior. And when he tried to get the band back together, it only lead to social media-wide mockery.
Just had a terrific meeting with President Trump! pic.twitter.com/jGyAnURAky
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 5, 2021
On Monday, Miller posted a photo of him with his old boss on his poorly followed Twitter account. (Seriously, he has just over 20,000 followers. By contrast, likely doomed Trumpist Matt Gaetz has over one million.) “Just had a terrific meeting with President Trump!” he wrote, though it wasn’t clear what a meeting between two unemployed people with zero power in government was supposed to be about.
Whatever matters they discussed didn’t matter. People just wanted to mock this particular meeting of the minds.
You could have stopped after 'ever'.
— Sam Aronoff #BLM (@ClashCityKing) April 5, 2021
A meeting about what youre both unemployed https://t.co/tmg6zsprjD
Stephen Miller Twitter Morning Call
— Three Dog Mike (@M_Lynx_3000) April 5, 2021
Many singled out Trump’s sad attempt to recreate the Oval Office in a much smaller room in the Florida country club where he now resides.
This is like the home office you find in a $150/night Orlando AirBnB. https://t.co/hyXOn7Op1k
Stephen Miller Twitter Today
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 5, 2021
Imagine leaving a job and having a having a replica of your old desk made so you didn't feel so meaningless https://t.co/yR1HM8nOPd
— mike is a comrade (@mikelevelsup) April 5, 2021
BAHAHAHHAHAHA LOOK AT HIS LITTLE WORK FROM HOME OFFICE CUUUUUTE https://t.co/CV5MiQLyJc
— Johnathan S. Perkins 😷 (@JohnathanPerk) April 5, 2021
For three thousand and five dollars and ten cents plus tax you too can look like a president. https://t.co/f5RtxwsJ8jpic.twitter.com/Kcda5qna8y
— Dean Barker (@deanbarker) April 5, 2021
You're a billionaire. You're living in a country club on the beach in Florida. Why would you dress in a suit and pretend that you're President? https://t.co/4vzpmFvDV0
Stephen Miller Twitter Handle
— Knight Who Says Ni! (@ValleyoftheFox) April 5, 2021
Some even spotted what looked like a clumsily hidden bottle of Coke, even as the GOP has cancelled the soft drink company for coming out against voter suppression laws in Georgia.
HOLY SHIT. busted. pic.twitter.com/5MsqnI9TSl
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) April 5, 2021
Seems like the Coke boycott is going well. pic.twitter.com/F6drJC7YSZ
— Bryan Armen Graham (@BryanAGraham) April 5, 2021
🤣🤣🤣 racist are so dumb they tried to hide the @CocaCola bottle behind the phone but we can still see it!! 2 fools worst former guy ever https://t.co/npnbwAbXg4
— Yes It's ME! Dame 💯 🇺🇲 (@YesItsM97576245) April 5, 2021
ha. trump attempted to hide the bottle of coke behind the phone. hows that #BoycottCoke going? https://t.co/tcSyocUeqP
— Jeff Lewis (@ChicagoPhotoSho) April 5, 2021
Some joked about what they might have discussed.
“Remember when we tossed those 8,000 kids across the border last year and sterilized the women? Man…good memories right, boss? I miss it.. Hey, is that a coke behind the phone?”
– Stephen Miller
Ghoul https://t.co/yVgt0wGeBs
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) April 5, 2021
Others wondered why they were smiling.
They won’t be smiling when the indictments come down. May it be SOON. Also, Stephen Miller aka #SatansSnotRag merits his own special tribunal for crimes against humanity. https://t.co/hqMFHQ393p
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) April 5, 2021
Miller has been busy. On Sunday he launched into a thread about the MLB also coming out against Georgia’s new voter laws, attempting to wax nostalgic for baseball as “the American sport.” People weren’t buying him trying to sound human, even amidst some culture war nonsense.
Stephen Miller’s tweets read like sponsored content but they’re just trying to sell the idea that he’s not a white nationalist but he is. https://t.co/Jrbhkk3CVb
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 5, 2021
Some mocked his attempt at moving prose.
Stephen Miller writes like an eighth grader trying to imitate Ken Burns. pic.twitter.com/TzFlRGvWue
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) April 5, 2021
Others said they don’t mind him nor others like him from skipping MLB games.
Absolutely devastated at the thought of attending a baseball game without people like Stephen Miller and Mike Huckabee in the stands
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) April 5, 2021
And others reminded us that very few people are seeing Miller’s tweets that aren’t ratioed.
This 19-year-old Mexican immigrant currently working on getting young people into politics has more significantly more Twitter followers than Stephen Miller.
…and I think that’s beautiful. pic.twitter.com/SdQ3WC5bic
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) April 5, 2021