Katie Miller

The Maga podcaster and wife of Trump’s top adviser sparked diplomatic chaos with her map of Greenland draped in the US flag, writes Andrew Anthony

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Katie Miller, the former spokesperson for the Elon Muskled US Department of Government Efficiency, Doge, is a prolific and outspoken presence on X. Rarely does a day pass without her sharing a mix of anti-vaccination, pro-ICE and anti-feminist opinions with her 187,000 followers.

Earlier this month, however, one post gained global attention and 33m views. It was the day that US special forces captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, in an audacious attack on his Caracas compound. Miller responded by posting an image of the map of Greenland overlaid with the Stars and Stripes, accompanied bya single word: “SOON”

Given that Miller holds no formal role in the Trump administration, and her current profession is “podcaster”, it might have been dismissed as just another of the graphic provocations she revels in, Instead, the implied threat of invasion triggered a series of responses and counter-responses that led to what is arguably the greatest crisis within Nato in its 77-year history.

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s prime minister, called the image “disrespectful” and insisted that his country was “not for sale”. Denmark’s ambassador to the US reiterated that his country expects “full respect for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark”, while Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, issued a strong statement reaffirming sovereignty.

The reason Miller’s post prompted such elevated reactions lay less in its content than in her proximity to power. She happens to be married to Stephen Miller, one of Donald ‘Trump's closest and most trusted advisers and something of a Maga attack dog. It has been pointed out that it’s hard to imagine Miller had

posted such an incendiary message without her husband’s backing, and equally hard to believe that he would have given that backing without ‘Trump's tacit or explicit approval.