# Susie Wiles is Out, Stephen Miller is In **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 6, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583 "2026-11-06T20:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/22 "2026-11-07T00:15:12Z")
When Trump says that Wiles “will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation,” what do we think that means? A shadow whip, so to speak? Or is it just a nice way of saying “tucked in a corner?” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/23 "2026-11-07T00:19:58Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > > [@Alessan](#): > > > > Natalie Harp will be gone within the month. > > Nah, Stephen Miller sure isn’t going to change those diapers. Exactly. Or send out those midnight tweets and memes. Miller will have to pry the two of them apart with a crowbar. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/24 "2026-11-07T00:28:48Z")
Trump doubling down on the very people who pushed for the policies which cost the Republican party their moral, intellectual, and (for now) political high ground is the gift which keeps on giving. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/25 "2026-11-07T00:29:40Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I thought it weird that the resignation is effective the same day. > > However, AI tells me that the same was true with Ronald Reagan’s Don Regan. Regan apparently had a falling out with the First Lady. > > There must be a dramatic story for it to take effect same day. Am I missing it, or do we have to wait for the tell-all books? The Wiles departure has been in the cards for weeks now, so no dramatic story is needed. Pundits have been predicting her departure for a while. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/26 "2026-11-07T01:21:07Z")
[Foxnews.com](http://Foxnews.com) headline: “Trump’s move from Wiles to Miller signals major tactical shift for governing without Congress”. How does this differ from a dictatorship? ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/27 "2026-11-07T01:39:45Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > [Foxnews.com](http://Foxnews.com) headline: “Trump’s move from Wiles to Miller signals major tactical shift for governing without Congress”. > > How does this differ from a dictatorship? I’ve been calling Trump a dictator for a long time. He spends money for purposes Congress did not authorize and appropriate, and refuses to spend money they did appropriate. We should see the standard conflict that historically occurs between a parliament, properly jealous of its privileges, and a king who refuses to act as a constitutional monarch. The only reservation I have, with the FoxNews headline, is whether there really will be a big tactical shift as we move from Wiles to Miller. I think Trump already governs as a normie, non-fascist – dictator. This in the article seems more correct than the headline: > [@](#): > > Another [unnamed GOP member of Congress] said the Trump administration will continue governing “without Congress, as they’ve been doing.” The relevance to the thread is that Wiles would, maybe, gently, want less of a complete dictatorship, while Miller is, I suspect, full-bore in favor. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/28 "2026-11-07T04:08:51Z")
No way Natalie leaves. She’s sort of like Donald’s Eva Braun- cheering him up and keeping him isolated from reality. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/29 "2026-11-07T04:11:12Z")
Could putting Evil Incarnate in the role be another distraction? While we’re gathering garlic and sharpening our stakes, the Feds are in the background turning the fuckery up to 11? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/30 "2026-11-07T12:58:31Z")
Oof, it feels like the last adult has left the room and there is literally nothing left but the toddler-in-chief’s id. I don’t think she was a good person, but I think she was capable of foreseeing the probable consequences of letting him indulge his worst instincts, and of acting as a check on them at least some of the time. What I hope is that a few more Cabinet members will depart and a Democratic Senate can force Trump to pick replacements who are Wrong Within Normal Parameters. I suspect progressives will not be thrilled with this course of action, but it’s better than having the entire executive branch staffed with cranks and courtiers. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/31 "2026-11-08T07:00:32Z")
John Casey of _The Advocate_ and _Raw Story_ is not a fan of CoS Miller. I’ve excerpted his comments down to adjectives to avoid copyright violation. > [@John Casey](#): > > **Trump just unleashed hell on the voters who dared stand up to him** > … > Miller is the most dangerous man in this administration … ruthless xenophobe white nationalist … > > And now this insidious fascist Nazi vampire has his bloodthirsty teeth in the neck of the stupid and pliable Donald Trump. > > ripped thousands of migrant children from their parents … Miller embraces the “Great Replacement” conspiracy rhetoric, i.e. white Christians only … a one-man wrecking crew for DEI. > > contempt for diplomacy … Trump looked at the [election] results and decided to hire the ugly, nefarious, macabre face of everything they rejected… no morals, no scruples, no decency, no empathy, no respect for democracy, no respect for the law, no respect for order, no respect for America, and no respect for world order. He is an evil disaster of epic proportions, and Donald Trump just put him in charge. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/32 "2026-11-08T07:47:03Z")
I really don’t understand how things will get worse just because Miller has a new position. This guy was feeding Trump poison anyway, so what’s changed? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/33 "2026-11-08T08:24:20Z")
> [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > Or is it just a nice way of saying “tucked in a corner?” I assume it means the office of Ambassador to the Shield of the Americas has been discontinued. ---
**Author:** ![MysteriousCritter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@MysteriousCritter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteriousCritter)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583/34 "2026-11-08T08:26:00Z")
It’s one of the more powerful appointed positions. The chief of staff has significant daily contact with the president and manages schedule and access. Managing the rest of the White House staff also means the chief can also tell them what priorities to work on “for the president.” He not only increases his face time greatly in his new role but he also can exercise a fair amount of control over what other opinions Trump gets exposed to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/susie-wiles-is-out-stephen-miller-is-in/1034583.md?page=1)