George Conway warns 'mad at the world' aide has 'figured out how to push Trump's buttons'

Conservative attorney George Conway, one of President Donald Trump's loudest critics since early in his first term, warned Monday that one person in the president's orbit may be steering him more than anyone else.

During a panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Weeknight," Conway urged viewers to pay close attention to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and suggested he may be the power behind the throne of Trump's second administration.

"Stephen Miller, he is maybe even more deranged than Donald Trump," Conway said. "I mean, if you listen to the stuff he puts out day by day, he's completely untethered to reality."

"He's so angry, and he's mad, mad at the world. He's mad at everybody. Everybody is conspiring against him," he continued. "The guy's not well. And he's somehow figured out how to push Donald Trump's buttons."

Last weekend, Miller lamented the decision by U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut — who Trump appointed during his first term — that ruled the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, was illegal. Miller alleged that there was an "organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers" and that Judge Immergut was trying to assume the role of "commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces."

Conway argued that Miller's worldview was based on lies that he was telling in order to justify executive overreach, and used Miller's example to assert that in Trump's second term, he had surrounded himself with "delusional" advisors.

"[The lies are] contextual. They're performative. And they're designed to create a real crisis so that they can intervene," Conway said. "So in that sense, you can say that this is all intentionally manipulative in order to create a crisis, in order to create a reality that he wants to create. But he starts with a very distorted reality to begin with. These people are not well."

"All of the people who were normal [in Trump's first term] ... they would take papers off his desk. They would say no to the boss. They would drag their feet. And sometimes they would say no, like those guys in the Justice Department after the election," he added. "But those people don't exist anymore. And what they do is attract people who are delusional."'