CNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller got heated on air while discussing Elon Musk and DOGE.

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.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    183·
    3 days ago

    “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?

    • Lasherz12@lemmy.world
      67·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
      22·
      3 days ago

      It’s the tried and tested Elon Musk method of performance evaluation. Fire all the workers, then be shocked when they don’t want their old job back for a lower wage and worse contract terms

      • Sinthesis@lemmy.today
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yep. Delete requirements. If you didnt have to put any requirements back, you didnt delete enough.

        This works well when designing a rocket but not very well when youre talking about human resources.

        • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Even with rockets the sane approach would be to model the outcome in a simulation or at a small scale, not “remove the outer hull and put her in orbit”.

    • easydnesto@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      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