California Governor Gavin Newsom has attacked President Donald Trump's decision to promote Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, calling the move "sick" and an insult to the Americans who voted for change in Tuesday's midterm elections.
Newsom made the attack in a post on his official X account on Friday, answering the White House announcement of Miller's promotion. "Donald Trump just promoted one of the most vile thugs to ever slither into the Oval Office," the governor wrote. "This is an insult to every American who voted for change on Tuesday."
Newsom aimed the rest of his attack at the immigration enforcement programme Miller designed. "Stephen Miller cooked up the sadistic mass deportation regime that ripped apart families and trampled basic civil rights," he wrote. "Innocent people are dead because of him. Voters rejected his cruelty and extremism. This is sick."
Trump announced the change on Friday, November 6. Miller, until now the deputy chief of staff for policy and the architect of the administration's immigration crackdown, takes over as chief of staff on Monday, November 9, while Susie Wiles moves to lead the Trump Political Operation. In his first speech in the new role, at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night, Miller pledged his absolute loyalty to the president, saying that without Trump "the United States of America would not exist right now."
The chief of staff is the most powerful appointed job in the White House — the person who controls the president's schedule, his paper and his priorities — so who holds it decides how the programme Americans elected is actually carried out day to day. Newsom, a Democrat who has made himself Trump's loudest governor-level critic, is presenting the promotion as proof of what a second Trump term means on immigration; the White House is presenting the same appointment as the president putting the man who built his policy in charge of delivering it. No direct White House reply to Newsom's post had been published.
That is the choice now in front of the country, stated by the two sides themselves: Newsom's America, in which Miller's promotion is an insult and a sickness, or Trump's America, in which the voters chose this enforcement programme and Miller is the man trusted to run it.
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