White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is FFRF Action Fund’s“Theocrat of the Week” for calling Trump’s presidency a result of “divine providence” in a July 4th post.
As part of the Trump Administration’s Christian nationalist celebration of Independence Day and the United States’ 250th anniversary, Miller took to X to post a sycophantic message in praise of Trump.
“It is impossible to review the events of the last decade and conclude that it is anything other than divine providence that Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States on the year of America 250, July 4th, 2026,” Miller wrote.
Christian nationalist leaders have long revered Trump as an almost messianic figure.
In May, Miller declared that Trump was building an “extraordinary paradise” and was responsible for a “national miracle” through his immigration crackdown. In October 2025, Miller told Trump the United States “was going to die” without him.
(Trump hhas aligned his presidency with Jesus. Earlier this year, he posted an AI image depicting himself as Jesus healing the sick, which, after evangelical criticism took him by surprise, he tried to downplay. In 2019, Trump looked to the sky and declared, “I am the chosen one,” which he also walked back after backlash.)
Although Miller is Jewish, he is highly intertwined with the Christian nationalist base backing Trump. He is a key architect behind some of Trump’s most destructive policies, such as the administration’s immigration enforcement activities. (The Trump administration has frequently used bible verses to frame its immigration crackdown as divinely ordained.) Miller was the main architect behind Trump’s Muslim ban and family separation policy in 2017 and has been linked to white nationalism.
Miller is the co-founder of America First Legal, a conservative legal group focused on executive overreach that Miller created after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. The group was listed as an original contributor to Project 2025, but was later removed from Project 2025’s website when Trump attempted to distance himself from the government blueprint.
Miller served as senior advisor to the president during the first Trump administration and now holds multiple positions in the second Trump administration, including assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff for the policy and homeland security advisor. He is highly influential on the White House’s domestic and national security agenda.
Miller’s work, policies and rhetoric heavily contribute to the overarching Christian nationalist agenda to enforce a Christian cultural framework in public life. Connecting Trump with “divine providence” isn’t just absurd; it is part of the effort to establish Trump as a figurehead for the dangerous, unconstitutional Christian nationalist movement.
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