The power couple loved by Trump and loathed by liberals: Stephen Miller has vowed to oversee the biggest deportation in US history and even allies say he has the ‘bedside manner of Himmler’… and his wife is no shrinking violet either!

If there was anything that frightened Donald Trump’s critics more than the sensational raid he launched to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, it was the way his overly arrogant policy chief Stephen Miller then tried to justify it.

“We live in a world where you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else,” the clean-shaven millennial told CNN anchor Jake Tapper last week.

‘But we live in the real world, Jake, in a world where power rules, power rules, power rules. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.’

The audience had barely caught its breath from this blast of cold-eyed aggression when Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, dropped another bombshell when the conversation moved to Greenland, Denmark’s sovereign territory.

He argued that the US, as ‘the power of NATO’, should get what it needs and that ‘obviously Greenland should be part of the US’. Clearly. Moreover, Miller said with his usual alarmingly friendly smile that no one would fight with the United States over the future of Greenland. Of course, what he really meant was ‘there is no one in their right mind’.

In case anyone was tempted to assume that the 40-year-old Miller was speaking out of turn and would be immediately slapped down, the President himself put it right in an interview published in the New York Times a few days ago.

Asked if he disagreed with Miller on any policy, Trump said: ‘Stephen is a very strong voice, I don’t think I disagree with him, no.’

It’s not for nothing that California-born Miller is now considered the most influential official in the White House and perhaps the most powerful unelected man in the United States.

Miller speaks to reporters about Venezuela at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 5, 2026

Trump said his most loyal servant sits “at the top of the totem pole” of his administration. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the constant refrain in the Oval Office was ‘Where is Stephen?’ He says it is. Tell him to handle this.’

Even though Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, Democrats like to portray him as a jacked-up fascist, Trump’s skinhead kid. According to well-connected journalist and Trump historian Michael Wolff, even some of his own colleagues disagree.

Last week, Wolff claimed that Miller’s then-boss, Steve Bannon, himself long accused of being a right-wing extremist, pointed him to Wolff in 2017, when Miller was merely a lackey in Trump’s first administration, working as a speechwriter and policy adviser. “That’s a real fascist,” Bannon joked.

Miller needs no introduction on Capitol Hill today. Posters showing his face frozen in a typically menacing expression were hung all over Washington, branded with ‘creepism’ and ‘fascism’.

During Trump’s first term, he was one of the architects of immigration policies harshly criticized by the Left, such as the Mexican border wall, the attempt to separate immigrant children from their families, and the ‘Muslim ban’ (Trump’s temporary ban on travel to the US from seven Muslim-majority countries in 2017).

During Trump’s second term, Miller picked up where he left off with even greater energy. His opponents have vowed to lead ‘the largest deportation operation in American history’ by targeting the country’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, saying it is a demographic shift towards a whiter country that Miller has dreamed of since he was a teenager.

His uncle, renowned psychologist David Glosser, publicly condemned him, claiming that their family, who had fled anti-Semitic pogroms in Europe, would be ‘destroyed’ under his nephew’s immigration crackdown.

Trump has made clear how frustrated he was to be surrounded in his first term by officials who disagreed with his more radical ideas and tried to thwart him. He had no such issues with Miller, who still sided with the boss and was one of the few people who always showed Trump respect, according to sources.

Miller, his wife, Katie, and their three children live in guarded military housing in the Washington area and are selling their $3 million home in Arlington, Virginia, after facing at least one confirmed death threat.

Sources say they are moving in lockstep on how to deal with everyone from undocumented immigrants to uncooperative Danish politicians who strangely refuse to hand over Greenland to Uncle Sam.

Republican friends say Trump spoke with Miller almost every day, even during the four years he was out of power.

Senator Jim Banks told the New York Times that the pair ‘talked about what a second-term agenda might look like before many of us even imagined there would be a second term.’

Banks, meanwhile, called Miller ‘the smartest man I’ve ever met in Washington,’ similar to the former Speaker of the House of Representatives who called Miller ‘Trump’s mastermind.’ It was certainly smart for Miller to see the value in sticking with the former president.

But this comes at a cost. Even if he is not overtly racist, he has been accused of being violently xenophobic. Miller, his wife, Katie, and their three children live in guarded military housing in the Washington area and are selling their $3 million home in Arlington, Virginia, after facing at least one confirmed death threat.

Katie, 34, was also followed and photographed in their neighborhood; this was a sign of the public’s growing admiration for him as well as for himself. A far-right podcaster and Trump supporter, she has eschewed the traditional wallflower role for political spouses.

Just hours after last week’s Venezuela raid, he shared an image on social media showing a map of Greenland superimposed on a US flag and commented: ‘COMING SOON’.

In 2020, the year they married, Vanity Fair called them “Trump’s favorite power couple” and noted that “even Goebbels was a ladies’ man.”

They have a lot in common, including coming from liberal cities but having politically conservative lawyer fathers.

Katie Miller (pictured with husband Stephen) is a political consultant and media personality who currently serves as a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

A former apparatchik of the Trump administration, Katie was Press Secretary for Trump’s first Vice-President Mike Pence and has remained loyal to the cause despite being a little more rebellious due to the tattoo on the inside of her lower lip that translates to ‘YOLO’ (‘You Only Live Once’).

He was quoted in a 2020 book as saying that colleagues at the Department of Homeland Security once sent him to visit juvenile detention centers on the Mexican border “to make me more compassionate,” but that didn’t work.

Naturally, the MAGA movement loves the Millers as much as the Democrats and their friends in Hollywood hate them.

Critics of Trump portray Stephen as the one making foreign policy decisions, noting that he is more prominent on television than before.

The left wingers declared the season open at Miller. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel rudely calls him ‘Trump’s other little bastard.’ Others sarcastically redistribute a 2003 video in which Miller sits on a school bus and jokes that Saddam Hussein and his friends should have their fingers cut off.

There are also photos of Miller continuing his youthful passion for Star Trek by dressing as Captain Kirk, whose “alpha leadership persona” he admired, according to a former schoolmate.

The 2003 school yearbook offered another gem; He included a quote attributed to President Theodore Roosevelt, who said that in the United States there was only ‘room for Americans and nothing else.’

Katie (pictured in May 2025) has a weekly podcast where she talks about politics

His friends say he enjoys causing bad smells. When he ran for class president in high school in 2002, old video footage shows him complaining to booing spectators that he was “sick and tired” of being told to pick up his trash “when we had so many janitors doing it for us.”

Republican politics clearly beckoned, and he got his foot in the door seven years later, working for Alabama senator Jeff Sessions in Washington, D.C.

Colleagues insist that Miller is essentially “a very nice guy,” but charm and sophistication are not his strong suits. In fact, one ally described him as having a ‘bedside style’. [SS chief] Heinrich Himmler’. He is said to shout at everyone at daily (even Saturdays) staff meetings; ‘no one can escape his wrath’.

If it is true that ICE agents are reportedly under extreme stress from the pressure to continue increasing immigration detention rates, Miller is ultimately the one cracking the whip. He is very aware that “the clock is ticking” for the Trump administration, an insider told the Atlantic magazine. But for MAGA fans, he’s doing his best to reshape America when his predecessors failed so dismally.