{"id":97318,"date":"2026-11-06T15:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=97318"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:52:39","slug":"trump-names-stephen-miller-new-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/trump-names-stephen-miller-new-chief-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names Stephen Miller new chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SHARON UDASIN<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014&nbsp;President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be replacing chief of staff Susie Wiles with her deputy, Stephen Miller.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97319\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Stephen-Miller.avif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97319\" class=\"wp-image-97319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Stephen-Miller.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-97319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Miller speaks at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Detroit, Michigan, Oct. 18, 2024. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a Truth Social post, Trump described Miller, who is Jewish, as one of his \u201cmost trusted advisors.\u201d He also commended Wiles for doing \u201can outstanding job\u201d and said that she \u201cwill be moving over to the Trump Political Operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff \u2014 She has done a great job!\u201d the president stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing President Trump in the White House has been the honor of a lifetime. I\u2019m so proud to have been a part of what we\u2019ve accomplished together from securing our border and cutting taxes to strengthening our economy and putting America First,\u201d Wiles said in her own statement.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, a longtime confidant of Trump, is a key backer of the nation\u2019s most hard-line immigration policies. He has used nativist rhetoric in the past and spoke at an event during the 2024 presidential campaign that drew comparisons to a 1939 Nazi rally.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Miller married Katie Waldman, who is also Jewish and took his last name, at the Trump D.C. hotel during Trump\u2019s first term. The wedding was officiated by Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, who has been involved with the Trump administration\u2019s Abraham Accords establishing peaceful relations between Israel and several Arab countries.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Trump%20names%20Stephen%20Miller%20new%20chief%20of%20staff\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[10998,3069,1781,8790,8795,8788,9529,8839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97320,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97318\/revisions\/97320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}