Defeat Has Hardened Trump. It Is Not Good News for Mexico. Fasten Your Seatbelts.

BySinEmbargo Staff

This article by SinEmbargo Staff originally appeared in the November 7, 2026 edition of SinEmbargo, an independent Mexican digital news outlet.

Mexico City, November 7 (SinEmbargo).— The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has hardened with his defeat. He has elevated someone just like him, or worse, to levels where he can make even harsher decisions on, for example, migration and organized crime, issues on which he can affect Mexico.

On Friday, Trump removed his former close adviser, Susie Wiles, from the post of chief of staff of the White House, and replaced her with Stephen Miller, his deputy chief of staff. More than any other senior adviser, Miller pushed for an aggressive use of executive power when Trump returned to office.

The New Yorker magazine states bluntly: “Miller has long been one of Trump’s most influential advisers. He is, principally, the architect of the Administration’s immigration policies, which include violent ICE operations, an executive order to end birthright citizenship, the dismantling of the legal immigration system, the mass detention of tens of thousands of people with no criminal records, and flagrant contempt for court orders.”

We need a moratorium on immigration from Third World countries until we can heal as a nation.

Stephen Miller, last December

Miller said this last December. For him, “healing” has largely consisted of making the country look more like him. He seems to regard immigrants and his political opponents as declared enemies.

Stephen Miller
“Stephen Miller has long been one of Trump’s most influential advisers,” according to The New Yorker magazine. Photo: White House

The New York Times says this morning: “Miller has been the driving force behind the President’s most forceful actions, including the use of increasingly hostile tactics to capture immigrants across the country and the bombing of small boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, which he and Trump declared constituted a foreign invasion.”

“The President’s choice sent a clear signal about the stance he intends to take in his final two years in office and about how little he plans to change his approach after the most resounding political defeat in half a century. It also put in the spotlight a figure who had already been a key target for Democrats, who were looking to use their new powers in Congress to rein in the government,” it adds.

Even though it is an outlet sympathetic to Trump, The Wall Street Journal says that Miller, “a shrewd political strategist who has been at Trump’s side for more than a decade, has been a staunch advocate of the no-limits style of governing that thrilled the President’s most ardent followers, the MAGA faithful, and that was repudiated by much of the rest of the country on Election Day. He succeeds Susie Wiles, who was seen as a moderating force on a sometimes impulsive President.”

The Atlantic details that while Wiles acted as a kind of counterweight —making sure Trump was fully informed and understood the risks and difficulties of any decision—, Miller has acted as an accelerator for a President who already has impulsive tendencies.

“One issue on which Wiles and Miller appear to diverge is how to force journalists to reveal their sources in the government. Trump has pressured the Justice Department to open criminal investigations into leaks on national security grounds, and there have been conversations in the White House and the Justice Department about various tactics they could employ —including arrests— as part of those efforts, according to three people familiar with the matter,” the magazine says.

Two of those people told The Atlantic that Wiles had opposed it. “Miller, however, was in favor and insisted that journalists would soon reveal their sources, we were told. A Justice Department spokesperson told us by text message that ‘this is absolutely false,’ but declined to elaborate. A White House spokesperson told us in a statement that unauthorized leaks ‘will NEVER be tolerated’ and that those responsible ‘must be held accountable.’”

“Many observers have compared Miller to a kind of Prime Minister in the current administration,” The New Yorker magazine maintains. “Miller, who has served as the President’s National Security adviser and foreign policy chief, has directed many of the government’s most radical actions. This goes far beyond immigration policy. The military bombing of alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific traces back to Miller.”

“The results of the midterm elections forcefully demonstrated public opposition to Trump and his policies, and Democrats will now control both chambers of Congress by wide margins. However, the President still retains immense power, especially in matters of immigration and foreign policy. His new chief of staff may well show us how ugly and painful the final stage of Trumpism can be,” the publication concludes.

Donald Trump in the Oval Office
“The President’s choice of his new chief of staff sent a clear signal about the stance he intends to take in his final two years in office,” warned The New York Times. Photo: White House