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US wormtongue suggests Trump has dictator-like powers

In a bizarre CNN interview, Donald Trump’s very own wormtongue seemed to malfunction after suggesting his boss has dictator-like powers:


People are now speculating that Miller accidentally gave the game away.

America’s Hitler?

In 2016, a prominent American politician said:

I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler

That politician was JD Vance, who currently serves as Trump’s vice president. Vance potentially had a change of heart, but we suspect he’s just one of many politicians and billionaires who see the orange terror as a useful vehicle for their own agenda.

Another person who no doubt views Trump as a useful vehicle is Stephen Miller. The Guardian described Miller as “the long-term architect of Trump’s years-long effort to reinvent US immigration policy”; Common Cause described him as someone with “white nationalist sympathies” who uses “cruelty-as-politics tactics”. AOC, meanwhile, described him as a “clown”:

In the video at the top, Miller froze after claiming Trump has “plenary authority”. In America, there is supposed to be a segregation of powers between the following branches of government:

  • The executive (the president).
  • The legislative (Congress).
  • The judicial (the Supreme Court).

Trump having “plenary authority” would suggest there is no longer a segregation of powers between the three; there is only Trump, and he is free to dictate policy as he sees fit:

People also alleged that CNN removed the objectionable statement from a later upload:

Millitant Miller

Earlier today, Reuters reported that:

Miller is deeply involved in reviewing government agencies’ investigations into the financial networks behind what the administration labels “domestic terror networks,” which include nonprofits and even educational institutions, a White House official said.

They added:

The effort marks an escalation in the administration’s efforts to target domestic opponents, raising alarm among civil rights groups and Democratic leaders about the use of executive power.

As people have highlighted, the crackdown is of course one way:

Trump, meanwhile, is openly admitting his administration has killed America’s long-held right to universal freedom of speech:

It’s beginning to look a lot like fascism.

Wormtongue

Miller was an adviser in Trump’s first term, and he’s still an adviser now. If you’re familiar with Trump, you’ll know it’s rare that anyone can remain so close to him. Quite how the oily Miller manages to keep in Trump’s good books we don’t know, but he’s certainly doing something.

If you were unaware of Miller, it’s perhaps unsurprising to learn that Trump has someone as singularly committed to far-right policy as Miller:

Trump is a bad person, but he’s also self-involved with a non-existent attention span. He clearly doesn’t have the concentration or fervour to pursue a Hitler-approved immigration agenda, but the same cannot be said of Miller.

Featured image via CNN

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.