HAS FAMILY TV FLASHBACK TO 1967
'Get some help': Stephen Miller faces new backlash as Xmas film sparks anti-immigrant rant
David Edwards
December 26, 2025
December 26, 2025
RAW STORY
White House adviser Stephen Miller doesn't seem to be able to spend time with his family at Christmas without obsessing over deporting immigrants
"Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas (1967) with my kids," Miller wrote in a post on Friday, the day after Christmas. "Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world."
While many responses were supportive of Miller, he also faced a lot of backlash for linking the Christmas movie to his desire to deport immigrants.
"Damn, can't even spend quality time with his kids without doing this weird s---," Amanda Moore wrote.
"Frank Sinatra was the son of an Italian immigrant from Sicily," Joe Calvello noted. "Frank embraced his Italian roots and culture, and in turn, made Italian culture part of American culture."
"Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, icons of 'classic America,' were literally sons of Italian immigrants. Dean didn't speak English until school," Mike Young observed. "So maybe the lesson of the special is: America works when we stop acting like it's a museum."
White House adviser Stephen Miller doesn't seem to be able to spend time with his family at Christmas without obsessing over deporting immigrants
"Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas (1967) with my kids," Miller wrote in a post on Friday, the day after Christmas. "Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world."
While many responses were supportive of Miller, he also faced a lot of backlash for linking the Christmas movie to his desire to deport immigrants.
"Damn, can't even spend quality time with his kids without doing this weird s---," Amanda Moore wrote.
"Frank Sinatra was the son of an Italian immigrant from Sicily," Joe Calvello noted. "Frank embraced his Italian roots and culture, and in turn, made Italian culture part of American culture."
"Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, icons of 'classic America,' were literally sons of Italian immigrants. Dean didn't speak English until school," Mike Young observed. "So maybe the lesson of the special is: America works when we stop acting like it's a museum."
"You have mental issues if you watch Christmas movies and all you can think about is your hatred of immigrants," Zaid Jilani asserted.
"And I heard him exclaim as he rode out of sight, 'Merry Christmas to all, and to all a White Ethnostate,'" Iowa Jones "jabbed.
Another commenter had a simple message for Miller: "Get some help."
"And I heard him exclaim as he rode out of sight, 'Merry Christmas to all, and to all a White Ethnostate,'" Iowa Jones "jabbed.
Another commenter had a simple message for Miller: "Get some help."
‘Horrible Racist’ Stephen Miller Slammed for Using Classic TV Christmas Special to Bash Immigrants
“Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra would hate Stephen Miller and his politics,” said one critic in response to Miller.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller looks on during a law enforcement roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House on October 23, 2025 in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Brad Reed
Dec 26, 2025
COMMON DREAMS
Top Trump White House aide Stephen Miller on Friday elicited disgust after he said that a beloved Christmas television special reminded him of his own personal animus toward immigrants.
Miller, often seen as the architect of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, revealed in a post on X that he and his children had just watched “Christmas with The Martins and The Sinatras,” a one-off 1967 TV holiday special that featured singers Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
Miller then quickly pivoted from that to once again bash immigrants who come to the US.
“Imagine watching that,” Miller wrote, “and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.”
As Rolling Stone politics reporter Nikki McCann Ramírez pointed out in response, both Martin and Sinatra both had parents who were first-generation Italian immigrants.
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“Dean Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti and gave himself a stage name because of braindead xenophobes like Stephen,” McCann Ramírez observed. “Sinatra was also a child of Italian immigrants. Imagine watching them and thinking immigrants didn’t build the culture you fetishize today.”
A similar point was made by civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill in a post on Bluesky.
“Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly and Antonini born in Genoa and Sicily, respectively,” she wrote, “and Martin, son of Gaetano and Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy and Ohio respectively... and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the US.”
Journalist and author Jeff Yang added some historical context to Miller’s remarks by noting that Italian immigrants in the early and middle decades of the 20th century faced many of the same stereotypes that Miller and his political allies ascribe to immigrants from Latin America.
“A reminder,” Yang wrote, while also posting old cartoons that featured racist depictions of Italians, “that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America.”
Yang added that Frank Sinatra’s mother “ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage, and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party.”
Princeton University historian Kevin Kruse promoted Yang’s thread that demonstrated Miller’s apparent ignorance of Dean and Sinatra’s family histories, and said it showed the Trump adviser is “a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.”
Tim Wise, a senior fellow at the African American Policy Forum, managed to find an upside to Miller’s holiday-themed anti-immigrant rant.
“The one silver lining in all this sickness is that one day your children will despise you as much as most of America already does,” he commented.
Film producer Franklin Leonard was even more succinct in his response to Miller.
“Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra would hate Stephen Miller and his politics,” he wrote.
“Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra would hate Stephen Miller and his politics,” said one critic in response to Miller.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller looks on during a law enforcement roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House on October 23, 2025 in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Brad Reed
Dec 26, 2025
COMMON DREAMS
Top Trump White House aide Stephen Miller on Friday elicited disgust after he said that a beloved Christmas television special reminded him of his own personal animus toward immigrants.
Miller, often seen as the architect of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, revealed in a post on X that he and his children had just watched “Christmas with The Martins and The Sinatras,” a one-off 1967 TV holiday special that featured singers Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
Miller then quickly pivoted from that to once again bash immigrants who come to the US.
“Imagine watching that,” Miller wrote, “and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.”
As Rolling Stone politics reporter Nikki McCann Ramírez pointed out in response, both Martin and Sinatra both had parents who were first-generation Italian immigrants.
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Your support allows Common Dreams to continue covering the stories and amplifying the voices that the corporate media never will. Make a tax-deductible year-end gift to ensure we can sustain the reporting needed to meet the challenges of 2026.
“Dean Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti and gave himself a stage name because of braindead xenophobes like Stephen,” McCann Ramírez observed. “Sinatra was also a child of Italian immigrants. Imagine watching them and thinking immigrants didn’t build the culture you fetishize today.”
A similar point was made by civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill in a post on Bluesky.
“Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly and Antonini born in Genoa and Sicily, respectively,” she wrote, “and Martin, son of Gaetano and Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy and Ohio respectively... and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the US.”
Journalist and author Jeff Yang added some historical context to Miller’s remarks by noting that Italian immigrants in the early and middle decades of the 20th century faced many of the same stereotypes that Miller and his political allies ascribe to immigrants from Latin America.
“A reminder,” Yang wrote, while also posting old cartoons that featured racist depictions of Italians, “that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America.”
Yang added that Frank Sinatra’s mother “ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage, and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party.”
Princeton University historian Kevin Kruse promoted Yang’s thread that demonstrated Miller’s apparent ignorance of Dean and Sinatra’s family histories, and said it showed the Trump adviser is “a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.”
Tim Wise, a senior fellow at the African American Policy Forum, managed to find an upside to Miller’s holiday-themed anti-immigrant rant.
“The one silver lining in all this sickness is that one day your children will despise you as much as most of America already does,” he commented.
Film producer Franklin Leonard was even more succinct in his response to Miller.
“Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra would hate Stephen Miller and his politics,” he wrote.
Trump Border Patrol commander uncorks wild 12-hour Christmas Day social media rampage
Daniel Hampton
December 26, 2025
RAW STORY
USBP Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro sector, Greg Bovino, walks in the Cicero neighborhood during an immigration raid, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 22, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
A top immigration enforcement official for President Donald Trump's administration spent Christmas melting down in a lengthy social media rampage.
Rather than celebrate the Christian holiday, a fuming Gregory Bovino, Trump's Border Patrol commander, opted instead to unleash dozens of posts over a 12-hour span, flooding X with posts fixated on immigration enforcement and attacking political opponents, The Daily Beast reported Friday.
"Posting more than three dozen times in 12 hours, he began his salvo before lunch by blaming Rep. Mike Levin for 'creat[ing] sanctuaries,' sniping at the California Democrat: 'Luckily we have patriots who put US Citizens and LEGAL immigrants over your lawlessness,'" the report said.
Bovino also took aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), boasting about "massive deportations of illegal aliens" in her state.
"Ilan, more to come - Merry Christmas and God bless you on Christ’s birthday," he railed. "MERRY CHRISTMAS and may American exceptionalism continue!!!!"
He also directed obsequious Christmas wishes toward White House immigration czar Stephen Miller and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—neither of whom bothered responding.
Between the political attacks, Bovino engaged in petty conflicts with ordinary X users, questioning his tactics. He even responded with a laugh emoji to an AI-generated image depicting him in women's clothing.
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Daniel Hampton
December 26, 2025
RAW STORY
USBP Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro sector, Greg Bovino, walks in the Cicero neighborhood during an immigration raid, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 22, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
A top immigration enforcement official for President Donald Trump's administration spent Christmas melting down in a lengthy social media rampage.
Rather than celebrate the Christian holiday, a fuming Gregory Bovino, Trump's Border Patrol commander, opted instead to unleash dozens of posts over a 12-hour span, flooding X with posts fixated on immigration enforcement and attacking political opponents, The Daily Beast reported Friday.
"Posting more than three dozen times in 12 hours, he began his salvo before lunch by blaming Rep. Mike Levin for 'creat[ing] sanctuaries,' sniping at the California Democrat: 'Luckily we have patriots who put US Citizens and LEGAL immigrants over your lawlessness,'" the report said.
Bovino also took aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), boasting about "massive deportations of illegal aliens" in her state.
"Ilan, more to come - Merry Christmas and God bless you on Christ’s birthday," he railed. "MERRY CHRISTMAS and may American exceptionalism continue!!!!"
He also directed obsequious Christmas wishes toward White House immigration czar Stephen Miller and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—neither of whom bothered responding.
Between the political attacks, Bovino engaged in petty conflicts with ordinary X users, questioning his tactics. He even responded with a laugh emoji to an AI-generated image depicting him in women's clothing.
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