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by Steve Timmer
Oct 5, 2025, 3:30 PM

Trump’s deputy Stephen Miller Fatuous Bastard ™

Still trailing the late Charlie Kirk by one, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, notched his second Fatuous Bastard™ for this shrill, pearl-clutching, paranoid, and downright silly classic tweet:

Stephen Miller tweet

People generally recall Stephen Miller as a comms flak for Jeff Sessions, but he was actually incubated in politics in the office of Congress Member Michele Bachmann. Which makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

The Fatuous Bastard™ award aims to recognize and celebrate all the incels and other assorted misfits who were stuffed in lockers in high school and never got over it, the overweening, overcompensating pseudo-intellectual fools who mistake a thesaurus for thought, the basement dwellers whose fingers are as orange as their hero, the . . . well, you get the idea.

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