Stephen Miller’s New Chief of Staff Job Comes With Exactly One Bit of Good News

Fame Katie Miller’s MAGA Podcast Officially Too Embarrassing to Continue By Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Heather Schwedel? Nov 10, 20261:45 PM Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Stephen Miller’s promotion to White House chief of staff will bring with it one small blessing: It will mean the end of his wife’s mind-numbingly boring podcast, and, if we’re really lucky, we can maybe even take it as a signal that she’s abandoning her plan to become a conservative lifestyle influencer. Over the weekend, Katie Miller announced on X that she had made the difficult decision to stop recording new podcast episodes. With her husband’s important new job, she simply won’t have the time for it, she claimed: “Nothing is more important than raising our four kids. While I’ve loved the podcast, the time commitment is too great and now is the time to step away.” There’s reason to be a little dubious about her explanation. How much time could she really be spending prepping for friendly guests like RFK Jr. and recording this show each week? Given her resources, it seems clear she could continue the show if she wanted to. So we can take her leaving as a sign that, well, she doesn’t really want to. If anything, this timing is convenient: If she was looking for an exit strategy out of The Katie Miller Podcast, her husband’s promotion provides a perfect one, in that now she never has to admit what a flop the show was. Now she gets to sound like a dutiful wife in line with her movement’s expectations of young mothers like her. The podcast launched in August 2025 and has not been a resounding hit. While a few episodes have featured notable guests and scored respectable viewership numbers, they were nestled between episodes like the one from June that featured an interview with the founder of Drybar and netted just 4,200 views on YouTube, and an April appearance from the U.S. energy secretary and his wife that had an audience of just 6,200. Though Miller’s connections to the Trump administration no doubt helped her score guests like Elon Musk and Nicki Minaj, she also frequently hosted people I actively don’t want to hear from on a lifestyle podcast, like Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. If you try to watch an episode, you’ll quickly get a sense of why the show failed to catch on: I turned on a July episode featuring Kelsey Grammer, during which the pair spent much of the early part of the interview cooing over their new babies. Miller, who is 35, really thinks people should be having more babies, so she shares how happy she is that Grammer has one, no matter that he is 71. As other journalists have noted, Miller is not especially charismatic or adept at interviewing, and revelations from the podcast rarely received much attention or made headlines. It’s easy to see why: No one cares to hear how J.D. Vance keeps his marriage strong, to the extent that he’s even telling the truth when he speaks about it, or that Musk loves cheeseburgers. No one wants to see the softer side of these figures, because it turns out that in addition to carrying out abhorrent policies, they’re often quite boring. When Miller launched the show, she made a big deal about how conservative women needed more spaces to gather online. “There isn’t a place for a mom like me, mom of three young kids, 4, 3, and almost 2, and a wife, and trying to do a career, eat healthy, work out—there isn’t a place for a mom like me,” she said at the time. (She now has four children.) Does the end of her podcast definitively prove that … she was wrong? Unfortunately, no, because there are still plenty of conservative women speaking out online to huge numbers (if not to huge midterms results). But Miller may well have been wrong that she was the person to be the voice of the movement, and her ending the podcast is at least a tacit admission of that. This leaves us with one less atrocious podcast in the world (after she burns off the remaining two episodes) and one less aspiring content creator sitting in front of a stupid neon sign. It’s not much, but it’s something. Donald Trump White House Stephen Miller Podcasts