FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>emptywheel.bsky.social</span></a></span> </p><p>"Everywhere you look you have to wonder whether <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SusieWiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SusieWiles</span></a> is as much in charge as <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AmyGleason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmyGleason</span></a> is at <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>, whether her title of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ChiefofStaff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChiefofStaff</span></a> is just a convenient fiction to cover up for the reality that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> does whatever the last person in the room tells him to do.</p><p>And often as not, the last person in the room is <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a>."</p><p>Stephen Miller</p><p>One has to think that Trump has staffed the Federal government with the dregs he had around him, but there are simply too few competent true-believer acolytes to fill out the Federal government</p><p>Enter the few Trump Whispers, or perhaps really the single <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TrumpWhisperer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpWhisperer</span></a>: Stephen Miller</p><p>"It’s not just that Stephen Miller is often the last one in the room with Trump. It’s not just that Stephen Miller’s policy ideas are batshit insane (and that he’s the author of Trump’s most egregious abuses of power). It’s also that Miller often stands in as the Word of DOGE, the Word of Trump."</p><p>Here: <a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/20/trump-has-no-policy-process-just-wormtongue-and-palace-intrigue/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">emptywheel.net/2025/04/20/trum</span><span class="invisible">p-has-no-policy-process-just-wormtongue-and-palace-intrigue/</span></a></p>