When Trump administration figures want to do a warm, humanizing interview these days, they can’t depend on the mainstream media. It’s often adversarial or downright hostile. Chatty bro podcasters such as Joe Rogan give them room to talk, but also challenge them on policy positions. Their best bet is The Katie Miller Podcast, a show hosted by Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, Trump’s chief policy advisor. She’s quickly emerged as the Barbara Walters, or Oprah Winfrey, of the new American conservatism.
If Miller feels like a relatively new character in The Real Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue, that’s because she married Stephen Miller in February 2020, toward the end of Donald Trump’s first term, meaning she was poised for a bigger role but had to improvise, like all Trump loyalists, while the chief was in exile.
Before then, the Florida-born Miller was a background Republican staffer, beginning as a House intern in 2013, aged 22. She quickly moved up to become press secretary for Republican senators Steve Daines and Martha McSally (not at the same time), deputy press secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and, at the end of Trump’s first term, press secretary and communications director for then-vice president Mike Pence.
At the dawn of Trump 2.0, she came aboard as the communications director for Elon Musk’s campaign to reduce the size of government, an effort that Musk generously called “a little bit successful.” When Musk left government, so did Miller, announcing that she was going to help him with strategic communications across his various business ventures. Musk, however, made clear that he was leaving government not to be an exterior political actor, but to focus on the science and technology development that made his name in the first place.
Miller, foremost a political operator, drifted back into Trump’s orbit without making a big deal of things. She seems to like crossing bridges, not burning them. Instead, she started the podcast, as effective a piece of personal branding as we’ve seen in the Trump era, with her main audience being conservative women and moms, who she feels current media underserves. It would be, she said, a conservative answer to the popular podcast Call Her Daddy. “As a mom of three young kids, who eats healthy, goes to the gym, works full time I know there isn’t a podcast for women like myself,” Miller wrote on X in August 2025.
Since 2020, Katie and Stephen Miller have had three kids. In an interview with Fox News’s Jesse Watters, Katie referred to her husband as a “sexual matador” – a jarring image for the liberal media who prefer to portray him as Nosferatu in a suit. She also said: “He’s an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches, being like, ‘Let’s start the day, I’m going to defeat the left and we are going to win.’” Katie is the soft power in Stephen’s relentless efforts to crush the libs. One of her first guests was Vice President J.D. Vance, who used the forum not to discuss tariffs or the left’s war on Christian values, but to talk about himself as a husband and a dad.
Vance said that his kids think his job is yelling at people on the phone. Miller asked him how he deals with public temper tantrums. “I immediately grab them, take them to the bathroom and say, ‘You’ve got to cut this shit out,’” he replied.
Katie Miller, foremost a political operator, seems to like crossing bridges, not burning them
Miller also asked Speaker Mike Johnson which House members he’d be most likely to butt-dial. She also got Mike Tyson to admit he’d used fentanyl and say that he thinks cannabis helps athletes relax and perform better when they compete.
When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sat down in her studio, Miller asked him which administration members he’d most like to babysit his kids. “Oh, I mean, not your husband or Marco,” he said, but added that Miller’s husband is the person in the White House he’d turn to in an emergency.
Miller’s main function, or mission, is to make the most powerful people in the world seem like they’re just like us. When Musk appeared as a guest, he told a story about how his son insisted on ordering a cheeseburger at a sushi restaurant. In a recent interview with Health Secretary RFK Jr., he said of Trump’s diet: “The interesting thing about the President is that he eats really bad food, which is McDonald’s and, you know, candy and Diet Coke. He drinks Diet Coke at all times. He has the constitution of a deity. I don’t know how he’s alive, but he is.”
Sometimes guests make seeming relatable hard. When FBI Director Kash Patel appeared on the show last year with his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins, a Republican operative and country singer, Miller joked “Where’s her ring?” Addressing rumors that Wilkins is a “honeypot” who’s attempting to entrap Patel, she teasingly asked her, “Are you a Mossad agent?”
That interview in particular came under scrutiny because it aired during a manhunt for the Brown University mass shooter (the shooting occurred after Patel and Wilkins taped the episode). Still, Patel didn’t come off great, given that he’s using government planes to jet off to see Wilkins perform. “If I was actually abusing the privilege, I’d go see every one of her shows – I think I get to like 15 percent,” he said in his own defense.
On New Year’s Eve at Mar-a-Lago, the Millers showed off Katie’s baby bump; a fourth child is on the way. But it’s unlikely a baby will slow down the podcast. “Being a mother has made my career richer, fuller, better,” Miller told Fox News last year. “It doesn’t inhibit your career. In fact, it adds gasoline to the fire.”
This article was originally published in The Spectator’s February 2, 2026 World edition.
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