Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, has been the first to step aside following the results in the midterms, which cost the Republicans the majority in both chambers. As the president announced in a publication in Truth Social, his place will be taken by Miller, whom he described as “one of my most trusted advisors.” Miller is one of the most divisive figures in the Trump Administration, a key man of nationalism and the anti-immigration agenda.

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Although the rejection of Donald Trump's aggressive anti-immigration campaign has frequently been cited as one of the reasons behind his recent electoral setback, the president's first change after catastrophic midterms for the Republican Party has been the promotion of the architect of that crusade, Stephen Miller.

The magnate announced this November 6 on his Truth Social network that Miller, “one of my most trusted advisors,” will be the new chief of staff, instead of Susie Wiles, whom he said “has done an outstanding job” and “will move to Trump's Political Operation.”

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Miller has been one of the US president's longest-standing allies, having joined his 2016 presidential campaign as a speechwriter. Currently, he served as deputy chief of staff.

Wiles, for her part, was the chief of staff who had served the longest, with four years between Trump's previous term and this one. She was his unofficial campaign manager in 2016, 2020 and 2024, playing a key role in organizing efforts to reach the White House.

He was credited with having imposed his rigor and discipline to bring order to the campaign, despite the president's chaotic style.

But despite her usual discretion, she was quoted in an explosive Vanity Fair interview in which she acknowledged that Trump had “an alcoholic personality,” criticized then-Attorney General Pam Bondi for her handling of the Epstein files, and called Vice President J.D. Vance as a "conspiracy theorist for about a decade."

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He later criticized the publication's handling of his statements, saying it was an "offensive article misleadingly framed," although he did not deny the statements attributed to him.

Recently, Wiles declared herself free of a cancer that temporarily sidelined her from office.

Anonymous sources told the AP agency that he presented his resignation on the night of November 5. In a post on her social media, Wiles praised the president and declared herself “proud to have been a part of what we have accomplished together, from securing our border and reducing taxes to strengthening our economy and putting America first.”

An incendiary political advisor

While Wiles was seen as an experienced operator, capable of articulating efforts, alliances and strategies, Miller has stood out for her incendiary speech and confrontational style, and is the architect of some of the toughest domestic policies of Trump's second presidency.

Born in California in 1985 to a progressive Jewish family, Miller has designed the Administration's violent anti-immigration offensive, mass deportation campaign, and border management policy.

His have been ideas such as the veto of Muslim-majority countries, many of which have been left on a visa blacklist, or the attempt to end former President Barack Obama's DACA immigration program, the Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects the so-called "dreamers" from deportation, young people who entered the country illegally as children.

He has been the axis of nationalism in the MAGA movement and was responsible for establishing a goal of 3,000 arrests a day by the Border Patrol (CBP) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), as a prior step to carrying out the largest mass deportation in history.

An AP survey before the midterms revealed that 6 in 10 Americans believed that immigration law enforcement had gone too far and expressed some level of rejection of ICE's actions.

A graduate of Political Science from Duke University, Miller got his start in politics as an advisor to controversial former Senator Jeff Sessions.

His appointment comes at a time when a wave of investigations into Trump Administration officials are expected from Congress, which will now have a Democratic majority in both chambers, after the serious setbacks suffered by Republicans in the midterm elections.

Miller has referred to Democrats as "extremists, weirdos and lunatics who hate America" ​​and has spread unfounded theories on his networks about electoral fraud in California and Alaska.

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A White House source told Reuters that Trump believes his management should be “more aggressive” following the election results, while another official noted that the president “is rewarding those who are most loyal to him. He is not going to change course.”

In brief statements to the press before leaving for Florida, the president briefly stated that “he wanted to make a change” and praised Miller, highlighting that he understands it and that “he will do a great job.”

With AP, Reuters and EFE

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