{"id":857,"date":"2026-11-12T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T01:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T01:48:22","slug":"stephen-miller-wants-trumps-gatekeeper-trump-want-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Miller wants to be Trump\u2019s gatekeeper. Trump may not want one."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Stephen Miller has taken on the role of gatekeeper as Trump&#x27;s chief of staff, routing decisions through himself on matters ranging from parking spots to press statements. The arrangement faces a fundamental tension: Trump has historically resisted having a gatekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Miller can maintain that level of control remains an open question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/stephen-miller-trump-chief-staff-white-house-oval-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MS NOW \u2014 Stephen Miller wants to be Trump\u2019s gatekeeper. Trump may not want one.<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/podcasts\/political-gabfest\/2026\/11\/politics-what-stephen-miller-will-do-with-the-next-two-years?via=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slate.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-11-12\/white-house-chief-of-staff-stephen-miller-trump-judges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Miller, Trump White House, chief of staff, White House staff, power dynamics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Miller has taken on the role of gatekeeper as Trump&#8217;s chief of staff, routing decisions through himself on matters ranging from parking spots to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[462,984,463,983,449],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-j-trump","category-politics","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-power-dynamics","tag-stephen-miller","tag-trump-white-house","tag-white-house-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}