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riversedge

(78,578 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:21 AM 18 hrs ago

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases

As much as I disagree with their polices, I certainly do not want any violence done to these folks and their families--and hope none happens.



Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

By Michael Scherer, Missy Ryan, and Ashley Parker

October 30, 2025, 8 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-officials-military-housing-stephen-miller/684748/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share


The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children, and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not know. When she told this story on Fox News, she described the encounter as a protest that crossed a line. The stranger had told Miller: “I’m watching you,” she said. This was the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It also wasn’t anything new.

For weeks before Kirk’s death, activists had been protesting the Millers’ presence in north Arlington, Virginia. Someone had put up wanted posters in their neighborhood with their home address, denouncing Stephen as a Nazi who had committed “crimes against humanity.” A group called Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity warned in an Instagram post: “Your efforts to dismantle our democracy and destroy our social safety net will not be tolerated here.” The local protest became a backdrop to the Trump administration’s response to Kirk’s killing. When Miller, the architect of that response who is known for his inflammatory political rhetoric, announced a legal crackdown on liberal groups, he singled out the tactics that had victimized his family—what he called “organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting peoples’ addresses.”

Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest. It is an ominous marker of the nation’s polarization, to which the Trump administration has itself contributed, that some of those top public servants have felt a need to separate themselves from the public. These civilian officials can now depend on the U.S. military to augment their personal security. But so many have made the move that they are now straining the availability of housing for the nation’s top uniformed officers.............................

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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases (Original Post) riversedge 18 hrs ago OP
Between this and renewed nuclear testing. RandySF 18 hrs ago #1
Well... 2naSalit 18 hrs ago #3
Soon... 2naSalit 18 hrs ago #2
So they don't want to live in the society they created? Hmmm.... flor-de-jasmim 18 hrs ago #4
People hate them so much they cannot live in polite society. Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago #5
Are they paying rent? Rowdyag 16 hrs ago #6
Are they able to follow base protocol Hope22 16 hrs ago #7

RandySF

(79,036 posts)
1. Between this and renewed nuclear testing.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:26 AM
18 hrs ago

I am beginning to think a long trip to Canada is in order.

2naSalit

(98,458 posts)
2. Soon...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:32 AM
18 hrs ago

They'll be sporting uniforms and medals they don't deserve while demanding the rank and file salute them as they pass by.

flor-de-jasmim

(2,252 posts)
4. So they don't want to live in the society they created? Hmmm....
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:35 AM
18 hrs ago

It reminds me that the pro-gun GOP doesn't allow firearms at their conventions, but they don't mind them in schools, supermarkets--places the rest of us are in!

Irish_Dem

(77,043 posts)
5. People hate them so much they cannot live in polite society.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:44 AM
18 hrs ago

They have to hide away on military bases.
Acting important and special.

Karma in action.

Rowdyag

(163 posts)
6. Are they paying rent?
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 07:15 AM
16 hrs ago

Or are they displacing officers that have earned the right to the housing?
They created their reality let them live it

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