Overview
- Over the holiday weekend, Trump’s senior adviser wrote on X that watching a 1967 Frank Sinatra–Dean Martin Christmas special led him to reject “infinity migrants from the third world.”
- He followed with an alternate-history musing about a United States that would “never open our borders to the entire third world for sixty years.”
- Reporters and civil-rights figures countered that both entertainers were children of Italian immigrants and noted the era’s anti-Italian prejudice to underscore the historical pattern of nativism.
- Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes derided the posts as “rancid bigotry” and “as dumb as a box of hair,” pointing out Miller ignored contributions from foreign scientists to milestones like the Manhattan Project.
- On Monday, GOP strategist Sarah Longwell condemned Miller on a podcast, describing an obsessive hostility to immigrants and warning about his influence over Trump’s deportation agenda.