Dark Details About What Stephen Miller's Wife Katie Is Reportedly Like In Real Life

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Considering how much remarkable power they hold behind the scenes, Stephen Miller and his wife, Katie Miller, are both surprisingly good at staying out of the spotlight. Perhaps a match made in MAGA heaven, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and his podcasting wife have been known to ruffle feathers, both inside and outside of their own party. While Stephen has made a name for himself as being a bit of a bully who possibly pushes intense policies behind closed doors, Katie has done her best to present a charming front. Her Instagram is a mix of self-promotion and family photos that suggest she and Stephen (who Trump has a brutal nickname for) have a normal life. However, according to several sources who have known Katie for years, she appears to harbor quite the mean streak.

Beginning back in high school, reports suggest that Katie was known to go toe-to-toe with authority and peers that rubbed her the wrong way. According to Vanity Fair, when she was attending Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida, she notoriously didn't make friends easily, if at all. One particularly stunning incident of Katie behaving badly happened her senior year in AP English. Katie picked a fight with teacher Simone Waite, one of the few African Americans at the school, during a discussion on the novel "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. What started as a back and forth about how Katie disagreed with the concept of enslaved people having their history erased ultimately ended with her accusing Waite of being "psychologically damaging." It was decided that Katie would find a different classroom after that, but this was just the beginning of her showing her true colors.

After graduating high school in 2010, Katie Miller attended the University of Florida. There, she quickly immersed herself in school politics, working for the Unite party. In 2012, when college newspaper The Alligator published a glowing review of an opposing candidate, Katie and Student Senate President Jason Tiemeier swiped and dumped hundreds of copies of the paper. After getting caught, Katie doubled down and denied any wrongdoing and eventually got promoted within the Unite party. "The thing with Katie, bad behavior always got rewarded," a high school friend of Katie's told Vanity Fair.

As if to prove that Katie and husband Stephen Miller were meant to be cringey together, their love story began while they were working together in Donald Trump's first administration. There, Katie was given the job of being the press secretary to the Coronavirus Task Force in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. During a news conference where the FDA head and surgeon general were trying to socially distance, Katie insisted they stand closer together. Her disregard for the virus came off as flippant, especially in May 2020, when she refused to wear a mask among a group of reporters. Not only that, but Katie also coughed and then joked about not having the virus. She tested positive for COVID-19 the next day. Seemingly making light of the whole thing, Katie posted a joke to Instagram that same month announcing that she had also tested positive for being pregnant.