Stephen Miller gave the White House Press Corps “civic lessons” about presidential powers to please conservatives during a news briefing on Thursday.
The White House Deputy Chiefs of Staff policy answers questions comparing media concerns about Elon Musk working as an “unelected bureaucrat” while ignoring former President Joe Biden's declining mental state. Ta.
“You want to say very harsh things about some of our media friends,” he began. “It's true that many people in this room couldn't cover the fact that for four years Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and didn't run the country.”
“And the point of many people in this room was using this story is that Elon doesn't understand how government works.
Stephen Miller, Deputy Chiefs of Staff of the White House, will speak with reporters at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Thursday, February 20, 2025. (AP)
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“The president is elected by the entire American people. He is the only official in the entire government elected by the nation, is he right? The judge has been appointed. Members of Congress are elected at the district or state level. . There is a clause known as the Constitution, Article 2 Constitutional Rights Clause. To the Government.”
Miller went on to explain what he felt was a real threat.
“The threat to democracy, actually existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifelong civil servants whom they believe they will not answer anyone. [sic] They believe that no matter what Americans vote for, they can set their own agenda, and they can do whatever they want without consequences,” he said.
Miller continued to call officials from the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice, “don't want to change,” despite Americans voting in favour of radical reforms.
“What President Trump is doing is exclude federal officials who ignore democracy by not implementing his legitimate orders, the will of the entire American people.” He concluded.
Miller explained the scope of the presidential forces defending Doge, calling a lack of interest in media bureaucracy during the Biden administration. (Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images)
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Some conservative X users praised Miller's answer as a pushback to biased reporters.
Comedian Tim Young said, “I'm calling them out now that Stephen Miller torches the media and knows how government works. I loved every second of this.”
“Stephen Miller will be Straight School House Rock!” cried Knox County Mayor Glen Jacobs.
“He's right, you know,” said Dan McLaughlin, a senior author of the National Review.
“I love this clip from @Stephenm calling out the media about a refusal to cover Biden's mental incompetence. It's so good,” said Abigail Jackson, communications director for Senator Mo. Josh Hawley.
“Stephen Miller was the way Donald Trump was elected to represent the will of Americans on very clear and concise terms for ignorant news media, and he was elected to carry out his agenda. I explain that it's not a place for career bureaucrats who haven't done it,” conservative journalist Ian Miles Chong said.
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