Has Stephen Miller ever made a TV appearance that went well, and that didn’t end in a tantrum?
That happened again Tuesday night, as Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser, appeared with Martha MacCallum on Fox News. The topic this time was tariffs, and as always, Miller was there to defend the president’s position tooth-and-nail.
“We have a president who has now actually taken the necessary action to bring back American industrial power and might, so that we will have real hard deterrence in this country, real hard strength in this country. And the middle-class workers, the families can earn an income that they can retire on,” Miller said on the Fox show, per The Daily Beast.
Stephen Miller is having a meltdown on Fox News.
Temu Goebbels is unhinged. pic.twitter.com/npNgKu79JJ
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) April 8, 2025
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MacCallum, in the familiar Fox role of giving the Republican White House messaging advice, suggested that she would like to hear about “Wall Street a little bit less.”
“We are on the verge now because of President Trump’s strength and leadership of fixing our entire global trading system,” Miller said.
He also complained about the $50 billion “automobile deficit” with Japan, while the U.S. protects that nation, and South Korea.
“President Trump is going to fix our global trading relationships and at the same time he’s gonna work with Congress to make America the manufacturing center of the world with the lowest taxes, the lowest regulations, and the cheapest energy.”
MacCallum, by that point, seemed bored with Miller’s talking points.
Reporter Aaron Rupar also noticed that the stock ticker lost 200 points, just during the few minutes that Miller was talking:
the market starts tanking and loses 200 points while Stephen Miller is on Fox News (watch the ticker in the lower right corner) pic.twitter.com/7YYFioQNCf
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 8, 2025
Miller spent Trump’s four years out of office working as a Fox News contributor, but he never really developed a comfort with being on television. And his appearance on Fox Tuesday got not-so-great reviews.
“We are headed into a global financial crisis of Trump’s own making with Stephen Miller and Peter Navarro at the wheel – people who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing and yet Republicans handed them the keys and Fox treats them like experts,” former Obama Administration adviser Ben Rhodes said this week on X.
Photo courtesy of X screenshot.
