Stephen Miller isn’t just a Trump lackey—he’s the living, breathing definition of hate, and in this scorched-earth episode of America’s Coach, Mark Whitney sets him on fire. How does a privileged Jewish kid from Santa Monica morph into the poster child for white Christian nationalism? Simple: self-loathing, ambition, and a desperate need to be useful to power. Mark tears through Miller’s record, his rhetoric, and the pathetic irony of a man who weaponizes fear while forgetting his own history. This isn’t a critique—it’s a cremation. If hate had a face, it would be Stephen Miller’s dead-eyed mug. Buckle up.
Show Notes — America's Coach (June 26, 2025)
Recorded Live In San Diego, CA · 10:30A Pacific
Theme: A Satirical Thought Piece On Hate
“You're meant to be scared of Zohran Mamdani? Have you seen who’s running the rest of the world?”
“Stop calling everyone a hater. Save that word for Stephen Miller.”
“Let’s all bow our heads and mourn Stephen Miller—a pitiful creature who somehow missed the memo that he is Jewish.”
UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT (video is authoritative)
MARK WHITNEY
Here we go. Good morning. Nice to see you. Thanks for stopping by. Here we are. America's coach right there. See? There we are. That's where we are. 10:48 here in beautiful San Diego, California. It's about, I don't know, 68 degrees, 70 degrees, partly sunny. Beautiful day. Once again, my name is Mark Whitney. This is America's coach. Today, we're going to talk about Stephen Miller. You know Stephen Miller, don't you? Here he is right here. Ah, that's me. This is Stephen Miller. Look at this guy. Look at this poor man. Now, you know, you should never judge anybody based just on a photo. But in Stephen Miller's case, you're right. The title of this episode: Stephen Miller, the definition of hate. And that brings me to today's question. Serious question. Serious question. Listen, listen to me. Here's the question. Look at me when I'm talking to you. Listen. Who do you hate? Anybody? And don't say Trump, okay? Because Trump is a brain hack. So you got to take Trump out.
The reason I'm asking, who do you hate? I can't think of anybody I hate.
Not really hate. There are people I can think of in my life who have caused issues for me, like the guy from Harvard Law School who went to work for the Department of Justice and became a prosecutor and was roommates with that guy Jeffrey Toobin, the legal analyst from CNN. Anyway, the guy I'm talking about got a job with the Department of Justice in New Hampshire, and in 1991, he prosecuted me, so that created some issues. But I don't hate the guy. I don't hate the guy. I mean, the conviction that resulted from that triggered a 15-year recovery, the least part of which was the 700 days I spent in five federal prisons in four states. Like I've said before, I don't hate the guy. I learned a lot from him, actually. I went on to start a company that does business with tens of thousands of lawyers from all over the country, many of whom are Jewish, like Stephen Miller. Let's take another look at this guy. The reason I put this photo up of Stephen Miller is because this is not a one-off look for this guy. This is his default face.
When he came out of the womb, this is what he looked like. Pretty stink eye there. Dead eye. Why am I talking about Stephen Miller? Well, because yesterday, an immigrant—importantly, a Muslim immigrant—but it doesn't really matter because in Stephen Miller's world, all immigrants are a problem. This is a Muslim immigrant who is going to be the next mayor of New York City.
So in response to that, Stephen Miller sent out several tweets. But this is the one I thought—"To understand the pace and scope of migration to America in past years, one third of New York City is foreign born and almost two thirds of New York City children live in a foreign born household." Now, why is that important? That Stephen Miller would tweet that. Viewed 1.5 million times. 25,000 hearts. Right? Stephen Miller was the deputy chief of staff under Donald Trump. Stephen Miller is the definition of hate. That's a horrible thing to say about somebody. That's like one of the worst things you can say about somebody. And what I'm going to bring this around to is something you can use—
And that is the word—people we call haters—we're giving them too much credit. We're going to get to that. But this clown—he is not doing this for political reasons. He is the definition of hate. Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash in the afternoon?
Miller learned he was perhaps more suited to... That's Stephen Miller in high school. Where did he go to high school? Just up the road from me. Santa Monica. Santa Monica has a lot of Jews. They have a song called Hanukkah in Santa Monica.
I think it is so darkly ironic. Are you a fan of irony? I am. I think it is so darkly ironic that the man who is literally the definition of hate—like if you look up hate in the dictionary, it doesn't have a picture of Stephen Miller under hate. If you look up hate in the dictionary, it says: See Stephen Miller. It sends you to Stephen Miller. He is the definition of hate. At Santa Monica High. He's just like—even when he's talking about the janitors and how he resents having to pick up his own shit—it’s just venom. That stink eye that's in that photo.
But this is what I find so darkly ironic and hilarious. Stephen Miller, if you're listening to this, or if it gets passed around to you—somebody get this to Stephen Miller because I want him to hear this—Stephen, dude, you're Jewish. You're Jewish.
And you're the definition of hate. Are you not aware of what has been done to Jews throughout history? Did you miss that? Did you miss the whole Hitler thing?
How does a Jew from Santa Monica—the living embodiment, the three-dimensional version of the word hate—how does a Jew born in privilege in Santa Monica, California, grow up to be a white Christian nationalist? How does that happen? And still be Jewish, like at the same time.
This guy was born hating. He hated when he was at Santa Monica High. He hated when he was at Duke. That was the stuff I just played for you. And then—and all these little clips are from an eight-minute bit The Daily Show did on this guy a while back. But Stephen Miller—then, then, right, the ultimate thing happened. In June 2015, he found a master truly worthy of his devotions. I was watching the announcement, like everybody else, live on television. And as soon as I saw it, I said, I have to join this campaign. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. Miller became the Bronze Lord’s—
Very eyes. And here's the joke. Here's the joke. And I don't even know if Stephen Miller gets this part of the joke: Donald Trump is not a hater. Donald Trump is an actor. He's an actor. And he plays whatever part he thinks he should play when he's in the room with whoever he's in the room with. Every little interaction is a transaction. Stephen Miller sees Donald Trump and goes, I gotta hitch myself to that wagon.
Stephen Miller is—somebody please get this to Stephen Miller. Stephen, you are being played by Donald Trump. And trust me, before this is all over, you are going to end up somehow with a felony conviction. And Donald Trump is not going to pardon you. I'm just saying—he's not, because he doesn't really like you. He's using you. You're convenient. You're his slut. That's what you are to Donald Trump. You're his slut.
He saw you, and he went, I got my asshole. Like every Donald Trump needs an asshole. Michael Cohen used to be Donald Trump's asshole. Now you are Donald Trump's asshole. You, Stephen Miller.
So we've defined hate, and we've defined Donald Trump's asshole.
My work is not done here today, because I am America's coach, and I am here to help. I had someone ask me recently from my Toastmaster Club—I was talking about how when I was a young entrepreneur, I used to sell door-to-door. And Andrew is his name. Andrew's very good at jujitsu. Jujitsu. See how fun that is? See, this is what we do in the United States. We all get together in these world-class cities. In about an hour, I'm going to go to my Toastmaster meeting. I'm going to see Andrew. And they're going to be represented—there's going to be maybe 20 people there. Every continent is going to be represented. There are going to be a couple of Jews. There's a couple of Muslims, I think. We got some people from India. We got people from China. We got a couple of Caucasians. It's a melting pot. That's just one little meeting. That's just everyday life. We don't go around pointing fingers at each other. We work together. We like each other. And we make jokes. We make jokes about Jews. We make jokes about Muslims. That's not hate.
That's not hate. And that's been a problem. That was a problem during the Biden administration. Everything was hate. We escalate to hate. Hate should be reserved for Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller is the definition of hate.
So, Andrew asked me, how did you deal with rejection when you were going door to door? I didn't even hesitate. I texted him right back: Dude, it's not rejection. You're giving yourself too much credit. If you knock on a door in the middle of the day and a person comes to the door and their response to you is, I gotta talk to my husband or my wife or whatever. I gotta talk to somebody else. I don't have time. I don't have money—those are not objections. Those are not rejections. You're giving yourself too much credit. You were rude. You knocked on their door in the middle of the day because you want something from them.
So I just pushed through and said, Well, I got a question for you: Is this house running on electricity? I mean, I was selling vacuum cleaners in 1977. And then in 1995, in 1992, when I got out of prison, when I won my appeal, I went right back there because I knew I could make $100,000, like knocking on doors.
So you just—Well, I got a question for you. You ask a question, it’s an obvious answer, right? If you were selling solar, you would say, Well yeah, no, I understand, sorry to interrupt you, just one quick question—Is this house run on electricity? Now you get a little chuckle—or you don't get a chuckle. If you don't get a chuckle, get the hell out of there. But assuming you're not talking to Stephen Miller, you're probably going to get a chuckle. And when you get that chuckle, you say, You know, how great would it be if you didn't have to pay the electric bill and you take that $500 a month and replace this 10-year-old Honda in the driveway with something nice? And if they perk up—well, there might be a market there. There might be a market for what you're selling.
But if you think that that's hate, right? Everything is hate now. Everyone has haters. I see actual adults like my age who are successful. Like Scott Galloway, very successful podcaster with—what's her name there—Kara Swisher. They got a podcast, The Pivot, right? And they talk about their haters. Like they throw around the word hater. Like no—Stephen Miller is the definition of hate. Somebody that writes a comment calling you a bad name or saying you're a dickhead in response to something you put on the internet—that's not hate. That's not hate. That's somebody who should be creating content, and instead they're writing comments. And that's probably how they spend their day. Just commenting. Judging.
That's cool. When I first started touring independent theater festivals—guess what I wasn't doing—five-star shows. I was doing one-star shows. Like humiliating myself in public. Just like I did with the first 10 shows of this new series I'm building here. Now I'm starting to figure out who my character is. I'm starting to get my voice back. I'm getting the reps in. So it's getting better. It's getting better and better. I know it's getting better. The audience knows it's getting better. The result shows in the number of views, the number of pass arounds, things like that.
There's no hate involved. There's no hate.
Nobody hates you. And you know that because you don't hate anybody. Not really. You don't actually hate anybody. And if you don't hate anybody, nobody hates you. So you can stop using the word hate. And you can stop using the word hater. And you can start using the word tolerance. Or tolerate. I will tolerate you. It's the lowest form of acceptance.
We should feel sad for Stephen Miller. What a sad individual who has no concept of his own identity. He has sublet himself out to the real estate developer-in-chief. Let’s all bow our heads and mourn for Stephen Miller, a pitiful creature who somehow missed the memo that he is Jewish. See you tomorrow.
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