‘The View’s Griffin Warns Trump Is ‘Doubling Down’
‘The View’s Griffin Warns Trump Is ‘Doubling Down’
Erin MaxwellThu, November 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM UTC
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Former Trump White House communications director and current The View cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin is pulling back the curtain on Stephen Miller, one of President Donald Trump‘s longest-serving and most influential advisers.
During an appearance on The View‘s Behind the Table podcast, Griffin spoke with executive producer Brian Teta about her history with Stephen Miller, whom she has known for more than a decade. Griffin recalled how Miller went from being considered an eccentric on Capitol Hill to one of Trump’s most powerful advisers, while criticizing his immigration policies and warning against making him White House chief of staff following the Republican Party’s midterm election losses.
“He’s been one of his longest-serving aides since 2016, but I have known Stephen since I want to say like 2012 when I was working on Capitol Hill, and I was a senior communications adviser on the House side. He worked for then-Senator Jeff Sessions, who later became Trump’s attorney general,” explained Griffin. “Stephen was known as a rabid ideologue, even among Republican circles. He would send out these emails to dozens and dozens of Hill offices, always about immigration. They were always like angry talking points,” said And we kind of be like, ‘This is an Arby’s. Calm down, Stephen Miller.’ That was kind of his reputation.”
“I don’t mean this disparagingly,” Griffin stated. “He wasn’t someone who was seen as a power player on the Hill. He was seen as a character.”
“Trump upended so much of the common wisdom and the party establishment that it made sense when it was like Stephen was definitely going to go to that campaign and Stephen was definitely going to go and be senior in that White House.”
“Donald Trump’s not really an ideologue. There are a few things he kind of cares about. I think he generally feels a certain way about immigration; he generally thinks that tariffs work. But — and I can’t remember who originally said it — if he could have had Obama’s base instead of his, he would have chosen Obama’s any day of the week,” Griffin commented. “He wants to be president. He wants to be famous. He wants to be powerful.
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“Stephen Miller is the ideology behind MAGA, America First, and what propelled Donald Trump to be who he is. So making him chief of staff is an absolute doubling down on everything that was just rebuked in the midterms,” Griffin continued. “Especially if you want to point to the architect of overly aggressive ICE enforcement and people being dressed like the Gestapo in the streets and kind of cosplaying as like…I’ll let you look them up and tell me what you think they look like. That was Stephen.”
“It was shock and awe. It’s wanting to scare people. It’s wanting to feel like they run these streets,” she said. “It’s who he’s always been.”
“I want to be careful in saying this, because Stephen is a very smart person: His feelings with regard to immigration don’t feel natural to me. It feels like there was an inciting incident somewhere.” She then added. “Something must have happened that made him have this level of vitriol and anger.”
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