Senior White House Advisor Stephen Miller Once Ran in a HS Girls’ Track Meet to Prove Boys More Athletic
A New York Times profile on young White House advisor Stephen Miller contains an interesting anecdote: when attending a liberal high school in Santa Monica, Miller jumped into a girls’ track meet to prove “his athletic supremacy over the opposite sex.”
Miller’s struggles with his education at a liberal California high school has been well documented, but the latest story from the Times provides fresh details on right-wing ideologue’s teen years.
The report opens with an account of that time a 16-year-old Miller campaigned for student government, announcing in a speech his plan to put the school’s janitors to work:
“Am I the only one,” he asked, “who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?”
His speech was met with boos, and he was “forcibly escorted from the lectern, shouting inaudibly as he was tugged away,” per the Times.
Another detail from Miller’s high school days: he once gave a “semi-striptease” to the editor of the student newspaper, unbuttoning his shirt to reveal an American flag T-shirt “in protest of an article he found inconsistent with the national interest.”
The White House denied that the striptease took place — but did not deny the following incident:
He jumped, uninvited, into the final stretch of a girls’ track meet, apparently intent on proving his athletic supremacy over the opposite sex. (The White House, reaching for exculpatory context, noted that this was a girls’ team from another school, not his own.)
Students at the Santa Monica school also recounted a number of incidents to the Times in which Miller expressed anti-Hispanic views, including when he called up a classmate to declare they could no longer be friends – citing the classmate’s “Latino heritage as one of the reasons.”
Read the full profile here.
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