Katie Miller, the wife of President Donald Trump's chief strategist and speechwriter Stephen Miller, has for the second time in the runup to Christmas posted an attack on Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church, then quietly deleted it.
Her first remark came last week, after Leo, a relatively progressive pontiff in the spirit of his predecessor Francis, installed an outspoken pro-migrant bishop to oversee the South Florida diocese where Trump's own Mar-a-Lago resort is located. "The American Pope is now openly signaling his liberal priorities," wrote Miller in response to a post from Democratic operative Christopher Hale lauding the decision.
Then, this week, Miller did so again after Hale posted an article on X with the message, "Echoing Pope Leo XIV, Florida bishops urged Trump to stop deportations during Christmas Masses. Trump said no — and the bishops called him the Grinch."
Miller's response was to post an AI image of Trump wearing a Grinch suit, mocking the position of the Catholic Church. As Hale noted, this post, too, was taken down shortly after it had been posted.
"For the second time in five days, Stephen Miller’s wife @KatieMiller has deleted a tweet attacking Pope Leo and the Catholic Church," he wrote. "It’s remarkable behavior during the week leading up to Christmas."
All of this comes soon after an expose was published about Miller's political activism, and scandal, that she got caught up in while she was attending college.