Stephen Miller Says It’s the Media’s “Patriotic Duty” To Pretend an Insurrection Exists

WASHINGTON, D.C. — White House adviser Stephen Miller urged major news outlets Monday to “do their part for the country” by covering a series of nonexistent uprisings as though they were “the greatest domestic threat since 1812.”

“It’s not enough to report on crime,” Miller said at a press briefing. “The American people need to feel the insurrection. If they can’t feel it in their bones, the media must help them see it in their minds.”

According to aides, Miller has been holding daily calls with network producers to ensure “consistent messaging” about the phantom chaos supposedly unfolding in Chicago and Portland. He reportedly thanked several outlets for their “courageous willingness to describe perfectly normal protests as violent coups.”

When asked whether inventing a national crisis might be misleading, Miller dismissed the concern as “un-American pessimism.”

“Every great movement begins with imagination,” he said. “The Founding Fathers imagined liberty—we’re simply imagining its end.”

Trump later praised Miller’s remarks, calling him “a visionary of truth and television.” Sources say the administration plans to keep priming the public until invoking the Insurrection Act “feels like a natural next step.”