Katie Miller offered an unusually lionizing assessment of Elon Musk during the latest episode of The Katie Miller Podcast.
Miller, who previously worked in the Trump White House alongside her husband, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, left the administration in May to join Musk in the private sector.
But months later, in August, she left her position to launch her podcast.
Highlights
- Katie Miller praised Elon Musk on her podcast, calling him kind and a very good employer despite his tough reputation.
- Miller described Musk’s employees as mission-driven and fiercely loyal, highlighting SpaceX’s Starbase as an inspiring workplace.
- Miller previously worked at the White House but left to join Musk’s private sector efforts before launching her podcast.
Stephen Miller's wife gushed about Musk in the latest episode of her podcast
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In the new episode, Miller sat across from Musk, visibly gushing at her former boss.
She began by acknowledging Musk’s reputation for being difficult, then quickly rejected it. “Everyone always thinks you’re a very difficult person to work for,” Miller said. “I think you’re very kind.”
Musk thanked her as she continued her praise.
“People think, which you are, like, a very demanding boss,” Miller continued before complimenting Musk again. “I’ve never heard you yell at any employee.”
“Yeah, I don’t yell,” Musk responded.
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Miller served as a spokesperson for Musk during his brief tenure leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earlier this year.
Her inaugural podcast episode with Vice President JD Vance has been her most-watched program with 85,000 views, while the weakest-performing episode only drew about 2,700 views.
The Musk interview appears to be outperforming recent episodes, gaining more views in its first six hours than last week’s conversation with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his wife, Jen, collected over an entire week.
During the interview, Miller continued to applaud Musk’s leadership. She described employees at his companies as “incredibly mission-driven,” saying that his company is “unlike any other workplace” she has ever seen.
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She then singled out Starbase, SpaceX’s rocket development and launch site in South Texas. “Like Starbase is the most inspirational place you’ll ever go to, right?” Miller said.
Miller spoke about the employees who work for Musk, calling them “fiercely loyal.”
“You are a very good employer to work for, and I think people assume you are not,” she said as Musk asked, “Well, why would they think anyone would work at the companies?”
He continued, “Talented people can go work anywhere they want... if they’re mistreated in some way, they would leave and go work somewhere else.”
The pair did not address an online controversy from June involving a fake screenshot shared on Musk’s platform, X.
Katie Miller left her work alongside her husband at the White House to join Musk
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The image claimed Musk had boasted that he “took” Miller from her husband.
Even X’s AI assistant, Grok, incorrectly suggested the post might have been real and deleted. Musk later corrected it, clarifying the situation, “No, it’s fake ffs… I never posted this.”
Speculation about Miller’s departure from the White House earlier this year also resurfaced online at the time. When she resigned, Democrats mocked Stephen Miller with a post suggesting there was trouble in the couple’s marriage.
When Katie Miller initially left the White House, rumors of an affair between her and Musk had erupted. The situation got more controversial when, in July, Musk unfollowed Miller on X, leading to rumors that they had a falling-out. “My paycheck still comes from him,” is all Miller had said at the time.
During the podcast, Musk and Miller also spoke about his brief role at DOGE, the Trump administration's cost-cutting department. He called the work “somewhat successful,” but said that he won’t take up a role like that again.
“Instead of doing DOGE, I would have ... worked at my companies, essentially, and they wouldn't have been burning the cars,” Musk said, referring to vandalism that had taken place at Tesla dealerships in the wake of the government spending cuts.
He also repeated the conspiracy theory that migrants were being paid to come to the U.S. “in vast numbers” and “fast-tracked to citizenship.” He claimed “there are massive transfer payments going to illegal immigrants” because of which the people are “beholden to government payments and voting hard left.”
Musk had repeated the claims even in 2024, but according to BBC Verify and several studies, the probability of non-citizens having voted in U.S. federal elections is very small.