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Posted on 11/06/2026 4:58:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump fires his chief of staff, as his political universe shrinks.
Most Presidents who take a beating in midterm elections acknowledge the trouncing and take responsibility. But Donald Trump isn’t most Presidents, in case you hadn’t noticed. On Friday he sacked his able chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and said he will replace her with domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller. To adapt the famous “Saturday Night Live” skit, what Mr. Trump seems to want is more MAGA cowbell.
“I am pleased to announce that Mr. Stephen Miller, the current Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, and one of my most trusted advisors, will become the Chief of Staff,” Mr. Trump wrote, adding that Ms. Wiles will move to the “Trump Political Operation,” whatever that is.
Ms. Wiles appears to be taking the fall for the election debacle, though Mr. Trump was the main architect of the policies that voters disliked and the midterm political strategy to tell voters to pretend he was “on the ballot.” With an approval rating of 37% in the exit poll, this was a catastrophic miscalculation.
Ms. Wiles is one of the few people in the White House orbit who isn’t a source of problems. She is a grown-up who imposed some order and kept the schemers in line. She brought in outsiders to let Mr. Trump hear other points of view. But the schemers got her in the end. Various yes-men were competing to succeed her, such as housing regulator Bill Pulte.
At least Mr. Miller is intelligent and a good communicator, though the problem is what he wants to communicate. Mr. Miller devised Mr. Trump’s mass deportation strategy for migrants. He sought the quota of 3,000 migrant arrests a day—yes, a day—that led...
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Takes the fall???
Maybe President Trump is ready to light up the enemies on the other side and needs a fighter- that would be Miller and not Wiles....
Exactly.
Enough of the establishment appointments.
I saw a mixture of weak candidates[SC, NC] and poor messaging[TX].
Losing Texas to oil industry hating Democrats?
Biden let in a lot more people than 3000/day.
Agreed. And as I’ve said on other threads, John Thune and others wanting just to work with their friends and friends of those friends did not help matters either.
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