Most people haven't really heard of Stephen Miller, the
31 year old Senior White House adviser and Trump's
speech writer who's behind Donald Trump's Immigration
ban, but with the constant criticism following the new
law, his name is sure going to ring bells in the ears of
White House political observers and the American
populace a lot longer.
Miller who isn't even an elected White House executive
is the one who seriously pushed for the executive order
temporarily banning immigrants and refugees from
seven Muslim-majority countries and reportedly
instructs Trump on a lot of White House policies.
Here are 5 things worthy of knowing about Miller.
1. Miller, just like Trump is a very ambitious young man,
and at the age of 31, his foray into politics and most
especially the White House has been spectacular and
alarming to say the least. He was once Jeff Sessions
aide and could be reunited with the senator if he's
confirmed as the Attorney General of the United States.
Miller, spurred by his ambition of greatness, he
approached Trump's campaign team in June 2015,
promising them that with him on board they have a high
chance of defeating an Obama/Clinton controlled
Washington.
He was officially appointed as a senior adviser of
Trump's campaign in January 2016, Trump was seriously
impressed by Miller and then promoted him to top
policy maker and his only speech writer.
He normally fired up the crowd before Trump's
campaign rally speeches with words like: ''
Those in power want to keep you down, but Donald
Trump is here to raise you up.
"Everybody who stands against Donald Trump are the
people who've been running this country into the
ground,"
"Everything that is wrong with this country today, the
people opposing Donald J. Trump are responsible for."
2. He was raised in a Jewish and Democratic family,
but after the 9/11 attacks and inspiration from Wayne
LaPierre’s 1994 book, “Guns, Crime, and Freedom”, he
decided to ditch his faily's political orientation while still
in high school and even challenged different political
doctrines in his college days.
While in school he was annoyed with government's
acceptance of g@ys and reportedly said:
“just in case
your son or daughter decides at their tender age that
they are g@y, we have a club … that will gladly help
foster their homosexuality.”
After graduating from High-school, Miller published a
column titled “How I Changed My Left-Wing High
School.”
And on his bio, he wrote : “Stephen Miller, 17 years old,
just graduated from Santa Monica High School,”
“Since his Junior year in High School, he has been a
guest on local and national radio over thirty times.”
3. Just like Trump, Miller is a far-right, anti-immigration,
anti-free-trade nationalism activist and propeller. He is
obsessed with perfection and believes in his own ability
more than anyone or anything else. He's an excessive
self-promoter, and is great at attracting attention and
creating a 'dynamic' brand and imagery of himself by
creating controversies.
According to CNN, Miller's high school classmate,
Adrian Karima, a 31 year old lawyer, Miller made a
name for himself in school by challenging his teachers
and presenting his conservative views with the
predominantly left-leaning student body.
At one point in time he even complained that his school
which had a sizeable African-American and Hispanic
population -- was trying to indoctrinate students.
"He saw it as being outnumbered in Santa Monica,
trying to preserve any idea of Americanism that he felt,
particularly by pushing English-speaking first."
"Stephen's whole view of immigration stems from high
school,"
"His negative views of immigration started in high
school and just grew over time."
4. He wouldn't mind provoking people, or denouncing
popular beliefs or thought patterns, as far as his
thoughts and views were listened to, he was fine.
For instance, Bannon and Miller (Trump calls them 'my
two Steves) not only created Trump’s controversial
travel ban; Miller spent Saturday/Sunday directing how
the law would be implemented, overruling Homeland
Security officials and insisting, that green card holders
would also be barred from entering the country unless
they are granted waivers on a case-by-case basis.
“He was very businesslike about it. … It smacked of
architecture, like he intentionally provoked people, and
it worked for him because he was making a name for
himself.” an article on Politicio.com said about him.
Aged 16, he wrote a very long editorial in high school
that had statements like "very few, if any, Hispanic
students make it to honors classes because the school
provides a "crutch" to those who don't speak English by
ensuring all announcements are written in both Spanish
and English."
"Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa
Monica High School,"
''This school isn't patriotic enough''
5. He wrote down Donald Trump's presidential
inauguration speech, and oh my.. it contained some of
the worst words ever used by a new U.S president
during an inauguration.
Trump said in a statement in December that Miller had
played a “central and wide-ranging role” in the
campaign. “He is deeply committed to the America First
agenda' Trump's inauguration speech was blasted by
mainstream media organizations like CNN and NBC as
"one of the most radical inaugural speeches we've ever
heard." and 'shockingly divisive'.
No other president used such words in an inauguration
speech before, but thanks to Miller, Trump became the
first.
The speech was laced with words like;
… ripped … rusted … sad … solidarity … sprawl … stealing
… stolen … subsidized … tombstones … trapped …
trillions … tunnel … unrealized … bleed … carnage …
depletion … landscape … overseas disagreements …
disrepair … flush … infrastructure … Islamic … lady …
unstoppable … urban … wind-swept.
