Trump taps aide Stephen Miller to write inaugural address

[EricMaundry]

Source: Politico

Donald Trump and his top advisers have begun mapping out the themes for his inaugural address next month, as the president-elect has tapped Stephen Miller, his incoming senior White House adviser for policy, to write the historic speech.

Early discussions of the address have focused on laying out some of the structural problems facing the country, and then framing Trumps first-term agenda in more nationalistic than ideological terms. Among the half-dozen areas that Trump is considering issuing a collective call to arms to address are the nations education system, infrastructure, border security, the state of the military and the economy, in particular, the outsourcing of jobs.

The choice of Miller, the 31-year-old who wrote most of Trumps major prepared speeches in 2016, including his Republican national convention address that was criticized as overly dark, is of no surprise to Trump insiders. Miller played an unusually multi-faceted role on the campaign: a behind-the-scenes policy adviser, Trumps chief speechwriter and a speech-giver himself, becoming a skinny-tie-wearing fixture over the summer at Trump rallies as a warm-up act.

Miller, who spent part of last week with Trump in Mar-a-Lago, has consulted people both on and off the campaign as he puts together an initial draft of the speech, including Trumps incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-miller-inauguration-speech-232967

[mountain grammy]

1. any jackass can write a completely fact free speech

and Miller is living proof.

[Madam45for2923]

2. What happened to Meredith McIver?

[Achilleaze]

3. Where in the world (or afterworld) is Comrade Casino's Republican speech writer Meredith McIver ???

This is the Mystery of the Millennium. Gosh darn it, it's just too bad that Corporate Media, Inc. (R) is so gosh darn busy re-tweeting Republican talking points, and thus has no time to pursue this mystery.

[Madam45for2923]

4. Yep! I'll never forget this bullshit woman!

[pinboy3niner]

5. She's locked in a secure, undisclosed location ghostwriting Barron's homework

[tinrobot]

21. She married Art Vandelay... the architect.

[dhol82]

6. I don't really care

Won't be listening to it anyhow.
Will spend the day watching movies and planning for the march the next day.

[Ilsa]

7. LOL. I briefly misread the name as "Stephanie Miller."

If only she could!

[Island Blue]

8. So did I.

I was like "Whhaaaaat?" Although that would be about the only way that I would ever listen to one second of his "inaugural" spewage.

[Coolest Ranger]

14. ha

so I wasn't the only one ROFALMO. Should tease momma on twitter

[TDale313]

26. Omg, me too!

And ya know he'd read whatever was put in front of him. That would be hilarious.

[Botany]

9. Trump taps Stephanie Miller to write inaugural address

But really this is a nightmare from which I can't wake up from. Steve Bannon? We are
really fucked.

I fixed it.

Trump taps Stephanie Miller to write inaugural address

Source: Politico

Donald Trump and his top advisers have begun mapping out the themes for his inaugural address next month, as the president-elect has tapped Stephanie Miller, his incoming senior White House adviser for policy, to write the historic speech.

Early discussions of the address have focused on laying out some of the structural problems facing the country, and then framing Trumps first-term agenda in more nationalistic than ideological terms. Among the half-dozen areas that Trump is considering issuing a collective call to arms to address are the nations education system, infrastructure, border security, the state of the military and the economy, in particular, the outsourcing of jobs.

The choice of Miller, the 61-year-old who wrote most of Trumps major prepared speeches in 2016, including his Republican national convention address that was criticized as overly dark, is of no surprise to Trump insiders. Miller played an unusually multi-faceted role on the campaign: a behind-the-scenes policy adviser, Trumps chief speechwriter and a speech-giver herself, becoming a skinny fixture over the summer at Trump rallies as a warm-up act.

Miller, who spent part of last week with Trump in Mar-a-Lago, has consulted people both on and off the campaign as he puts together an initial draft of the speech, including Trumps incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-miller-inauguration-speech-232967

[YOHABLO]

24. I did the same thing .. I went WHAT? Stephanie Miller, this ought to be good.

[PSPS]

10. "the historic speech?" Well, I guess so since he's "The New King" according to the RNC.

[Jacob Boehme]

11. Any inaugural address will contain more fake promises to....

trust him and trade everything we have now for a handful of “Magic Beans” that only tRump can provide. Then everything will work out just fine.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Probably shouldn't open with "Trump taps"...anything or anybody...

[7962]

13. Winner!

[Mendocino]

15. Go on take the money and run

oops...wrong Steve Miller.

[classof56]

16. Should be an easy one.

Start each phrase with "I alone can fix...whatever the issue is", followed by a rant about his margin of victory and there ya go--speech is a done deal. I suppose he could mention the fact that he's about to leave millions of his countrymen without health care with nothing to replace it while giving yuuuge tax breaks to his billionaire buds, along with all those other policies that will in essence destroy our economy and way of life. But hey, his supporters won't care. He's their New King, after all, who's gonna make America Great Again.

I won't be watching that particular speech, or anything else that comes out of his mouth (thank goodness for the mute button on my remote). Ever.

[louis-t]

17. I'm sure it will be a pile of crap.

[tonekat]

18. It will be the worst speech ever

Maybe it will be kept to 140 characters.

[No Vested Interest]

19. The "Speech" should be exceedingly brief. This one who will

be reading it is not good at reading what is written for him.
It does not sound sincere, coming from him, and he tends to dop his voice at the ending words of sentences.
Not to mention - there is nothing he has to say that is of any interest to me or most Americans.
It will not be a speech for the ages.

I would love to see a large group - the majority present - just turn their backs to him as he reads what is written for him.

[ailsagirl]

20. "historic speech?"

Really?

[BumRushDaShow]

22. The one caveat for the speech - no more than 140 characters

But it will be the greatest speech!11!1!! People will love it bigly!!!11!!!

[tenorly]

23. "Too many syllables, Steve!"

"If I can't understand some of these words, how in Hell do you expect my voters to!"

[YOHABLO]

25. Well, won't that be nice.

I won't be listening to the jackass.

[RandySF]

27. A preview

https://m.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. Here's a theme for the Fuhrer-Elect's presidency... fuck off you Nazi prick!

[no_hypocrisy]

29. " . . . . . and I will build a wall. A big wall, a high wall, a beautiful wall."

You know, roll out the oldies-but-goodies.

[keithbvadu2]

30. How long before he goes off-speech and starts ad-libbing?

How long before he goes off-speech and starts ad-libbing?

I mean 'telling it like it is'.

[dembotoz]

31. some people call me the space cowboy...some call me the gangster of love.......

or is that a different steve miller?