Stephen Miller dialed his sycophancy of Donald Trump all the way up to 11 on Thursday, right to the president’s face.
The White House deputy chief of staff for policy issued such wild praise of Trump during a roundtable on criminal cartels that critics on social media thought they’d be transported to an authoritarian-led country.
Miller, who is behind Trump’s hardline anti-immigration agenda, told the president: “Let me just say, Mr. President, that this country was going to die without you. This country was going to actually die without you.”
Miller listed various ways in which he believed America had been “sinking” during President Joe Biden’s administration and then added to Trump:
“This was a country on the verge of dying and you alone saved it.”
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a vocal critic of Trump, snarked online: “It’s not a cult don’t worry.” Others agreed:
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