Summary

A heated CNN interview saw Trump adviser Stephen Miller lose his composure while defending government job cuts and Elon Musk’s role in DOGE.

Host Brianna Keilar pressed Miller on the chaotic termination and reinstatement of 300 nuclear agency employees, leading him to angrily demand why she wasn’t “celebrating” government cuts.

Keilar urged him to “calm down.”

The White House later claimed that Musk is not an employee or administrator of DOGE but serves only as a senior adviser to Trump.

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    “I would say that it’s pretty standard when you’re downsizing government, you make cuts, you assess those cuts. You see who needs to be rehired, you see who needs to be kept, who needs to be reevaluated.”

    Um… It’s standard to fire them and then decide if you should have fired them? That is truly moronic. I just don’t understand how I can think less of these people every time I hear them speak. Is there no bottom? Will they always be able to disappoint me no matter how little I think of them?

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      Unfortunately no, fascism has no bottom because its existence relies on digging. If they stop radically altering things then their populist facade would collapse. This is why they need new enemies every month and their rhetoric has to get more extreme every time they talk. Miller has always been the most extreme person in both admins though, so you can safely assume that he’s where they will be in about a month.

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      All the CEO’s and consulting firms know that it’s standard practice to fire your highly experienced and highly paid workforce and hire undergrads at 1/3rd the cost to save money. That is this lunatic’s mind set of how to run this country. It surely couldn’t backfire could it? /s

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    Perhaps he’s too emotional to be placed into a position of power. We don’t want him making decisions while in a hysterical outburst.

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      I really feel that its best to put him somewhere he can have a real rest, and maybe we can give him a little cut to help with those overactive hormones.

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        give him a little cut to help with those overactive hormones.

        Blood letting? Why not give this leech some leech friends?

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          It sounds like they mean a certain procedure that’s done to animals that cuts them off from the influence of hormones.

          In case that’s too vague:

          I think they’re referring to castration

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    https://youtu.be/OkvGLIO01zs

    It’s really not that interesting. I was hoping for saliva to be flying, but that just his tone all the time. He always sounds like the least interesting Housewife, hoping that being bitchy enough will keep her on the next season.

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    Why not celebrate government cuts? Because all the countries in the world where the standard of living is the best have a strong public service managing social programs!

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      Id love some cuts to the surveillance state. I bet if we cut their money we could put it into feeding our hungry and helping our disabled live their best lives.

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    That was super difficult to watch.

    This full grown man grins like he ate a turd after each condescending derailment attempt. Then he curls his bottom lip in a snarl to show his teeth.

    He always appeared weak and frightened, but holy crap does this amplify that weakness.

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    Holy moly, this Stephen Miller guy is an idiot! Feels like an overexcited toddler with too much juice trying to tell his mom about the last episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter.