Donald Trump Reveals Who's Really Running the Show

[LiberalArkie]

May 5, 2025 8:19 PM



Donald Trump spent the weekend making news in approximately seven different ways simultaneously, about which I promise you much more tomorrow. I have long believed this to be a conscious strategy of his, but the nagging thought also occurs to me: How would we even know if Trump did start to lose it mentally? Given the standard he has already established for himself in the first months of his second term, can anyone say with certainty that they would immediately know the difference between “wacky Trump” and “crazy Trump”?

But to briefly summarize something I’ll expand upon in the Carnival of Fools, Trump just announced that he’s bringing “liberation day” to Hollywood like the Catholic Church brought the Inquisition to the Spanish Conversos. Beyond that, Trump also warned casually that Christmas may be downsized for America’s families this year due to his tariffs, but it’s no big deal because two choices of doll are every bit as good as 30. (He is correct about how little this world needs pencils, though perhaps I speak as a traumatized left-hander who sported a graphite smudge on the pinky side of his hand all through my teenage years.) To top it all off, we’re apparently going to reopen Alcatraz as a federal Supermax prison, which is a great idea because if there’s anywhere you want to house America’s most heinous criminals, it’s within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

But one other interesting piece of news also slipped out of Trump’s mouth over the weekend, less commented upon yet more interesting than the headline-garnering plays: Trump openly acknowledged how much power his aide Stephen Miller wields within the White House. Semafor’s Shelby Talcott reports that, when asked about the possibility of Miller taking the recently cashiered Mike Waltz’s place as national security adviser, Trump answered: “Stephen Miller is at the top of the totem pole. I mean, I think he sort of indirectly already has that job, because he has a lot to say about a lot of things. He’s a very valued person in the administration.”

For those who have paid close attention to the doings of this administration since January 20, this is hardly a surprise. (It has in fact been a running theme of my coverage here for quite some time.) For those who wonder whether Marco Rubio — who has at present acquired more formal titles than a Politburo member who survived the Great Patriotic War — is actually making any of the State Department decisions he announces weekly, turn your attention to Miller instead if you wish to assign either credit or blame. For the president, it is a remarkable admission of confidence in his man.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trump-reveals-whos-really-running-the-show/

[artemisia1]

1. He looks like a psycho. /nt

[LiberalArkie]

2. Looks are not deceiving

[PatSeg]

22. He should have become a character actor

He would make a great psycho or super villain.

[VTderry]

37. Your idea certainly would have made the world a safer place for all of us.

Your second sentence should have "is a" in place of "would make a great."

[PatSeg]

38. Ha, ha, that's true

[nilram]

25. This book you can judge by its cover

[bamagal62]

27. He is a psycho.

[Trueblue1968]

28. Voldemort who happens to be a DEMON

[Midnight Writer]

3. Democrats should start praising Stephen Miller as "Trump's Brain".

Credit Stephen Miller for all of the Trump Administration's shenanigans. Every time Trump signs an Executive Order, our Democrats should remark on how it reflects Stephen Miller's philosophy.

Make Trump out to be a chump, and Stephen Miller the svengali.

MAGA's biggest enemy is themselves. Their egos, their pride, their self-image. their incompetence.

Let's play on that for a while and see what happens.

[Pinback]

31. Excellent recommendation.

This, as much as anything, is what led to Musk's diminished role (that and the fact that he'd already released an army of destructive minions, and of course that the Tesla board of directors was getting antsy about him destroying not only the government but also his most well-known business).

For Krasnov, the only acceptable condition is constant attention and primacy in every pecking order. If he feels his status is slipping, he will flail angrily (which he's already doing most of the time anyway) and strike out at his closest associates.

I hope Dem strategists are thinking along similar lines.

[Lovie777]

4. No shithole is............

s miller is another fall guy.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R

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[The Blue Flower]

6. Miller shrieks when he speaks

Complete psycho.

[dchill]

30. Stephen Miller exists on the edge of hysteria.

He just needs a little push.

[Journeyman]

7. Some compare him to Goebbels, for superficial facial features. He's far more Martin Bormann . . .

when it comes to influence and control. More visible than Bormann was, but then, ’tis the nature of our electronic society.

[LiberalArkie]

8. He is tRumps brain.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Jesse Watters' love fantasy

He told Miller he was sexy. Is it because he looks like a dick?

[rubbersole]

15. He does.

With an overly zealous circumcision.

[dweller]

10. How did that work out calling e skum (N-ZA) the president ?

Now he is gone … what was the relationship between e skum (N-ZA) and pee wee German ?

Now who is in charge ?

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[BigDemVoter]

11. He looks like someone who molests small children. . . . .

He is disgusting.

[Emile]

12. Stephen Miller is the biggest suck ass I have ever seen.

[mopinko]

13. tsf is a figurehead.

as eagerly as i await his demise, it will not b the end of our troubles.

[LiberalArkie]

14. Miller (I believe) is the oligarchs tool to bring the "Wonderful libertarian plutocracy" to America

I feel he is also the one giving the ideas to the above mentioned oligarchs

[valleyrogue]

19. The kicker is it was already tried back during the Gilded Age and failed.

The Great Depression was a direct result of "libertarian" or "laissez faire" nutball ideas. That is why we have all the programs and regulations today.

These dipshits never learn. They have too much money, and they are screwed up in the head.

[Blue Owl]

16. Will the real piece of shit please rise?

[liberalgunwilltravel]

17. There are two major players in designing the evil

Stephen Miller and Russell Vought. Miller has the hate for the other turned up to 11, while Vought has the Christian Nationalist hordes.

[Amaryllis]

18. IN the presser with Bukele, MIller TWICE told Trump that the 9-0 SCOTUS ruling was IN THEIR FAVOR. I cannot

understand why no one has made a big deal out of this. Trump clearly believed him and asked him to repeat it a second time.

[nuxvomica]

20. He probably reminds Trump of Roy Cohn

They have that same snarling smug look. That alone would give Miller great influence with Trump.

[FakeNoose]

32. Hey I think you might be right about that

I never thought about it, but there is a strong resemblance.

[cachukis]

21. Trump is a reactionary transactionalist.

He is kept busy transactionalizing Miller and Vocht.
There is no way he can deal with all the mayhem he is creating. None of us can.
He has to be manipulated by the toadies who feed him his glory.
He wants payback.
He is angry at those who have called out his weaknesses.
He has been cowered by Putin. He has paybacks for sure. He is still in the game and wants vengeance.
He is fed by Miller and Voght. They put the plans into action hoping nobody sees them.
Trump says, I don't know. We have good lawyers.
The tanglement will take some serious unwinding.

[catchnrelease]

23. Eeeww

That's it, just ewwww!

[canetoad]

24. Someone posted this the other day

It really appealed to me.

[Lars39]

26. Hmm, I wonder how Miller and Vance get along.

Are we going to see a cage match when Trump exits the scene?

[kimbutgar]

29. So the Nosterfrau miller is our de facto president ?

This is who is really running our country! The orange Hitler is his puppet!

[DET]

36. OMG, That's Hilarious!

Especially that thing he is doing - whatever it is - in what appears to be the back of a car. Who could have predicted that Nosferatu would grow up to be President of the United States.

[Martin68]

33. If true, this is one more step in the direction of insanity, fascism, and the total destruction of democracy.

[Jack Valentino]

34. Trump was already clearly demented before he won the election, as documented

by the few who reported on it... but most of the press didn't want to know....

and they still DON'T--- now it's all about Biden's supposed decline again!

(YESTERDAY'S NEWS---Guess someone needs to remind them that Biden isn't President anymore,
and someone who is clearly much worse off mentally than Biden ever was,
now IS--- and in a position to hurt the entire country even more because of that!)

[LiberalArkie]

35. They did not report about Reagan either