The Right-Cheek Ass Clown for February, 2026

Earlier this week we presented an out-of-cycle Ass Clown Special Award - the first of 2026 - to the Arc de Trump. Today, we present the first regularly-scheduled Ass Clown Award for February to an individual who has, somehow, flown under our radar before now. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, with the traditional flatulent blare of trumpets and shower of confetti made from shredded evidence, we present the award for 

The Right-Cheek Ass Clown for February, 2026

to

White House Deputy Chief of Staff

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller is probably the most powerful and influential unelected individual in a position with responsibility for shaping national policy. He is the driving force behind implementation of many of the administration's most extreme actions, in particular its extremely aggressive and violent anti-immigrant program. 

He described the president in a CNN interview as having "plenary authority" under the law ... "plenary authority," or "plenary power," in case you didn't know, refers to the absolute, unchecked power of a king or dictator. 

As Der Furor grows increasingly incoherent and emotionally unstable, Miller exerts more and more authority through him, a Rasputin providing the brain and intellectual discipline his tsar lacks. As journalist Judith Levine has commented, "Where [Der Furor] has no guiding principles, Miller is a resolute ideologue of white, western supremacy and a tactician of final solutions."

The disastrous, violent federal overreach in Minnesota is a direct result of Miller's demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials make a minimum of 3,000 immigration arrests a day, nearly ten times the daily number in the previous year. He demands daily updates on the hiring of new ICE agents, on detention capacity, the numbers of deportation flights, and the number of border crossings. He has described the Democratic Party as a “domestic extremist organization,” and told CNN's Jake Tapper that “We are a superpower, and under [Der Furor], we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower.” 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, the Right-Cheek Ass Clown for February, 2026, is White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, a man whose actions and philosophies make him easy to lampoon

but dangerous to ignore in a nation supposedly guided by the Constitution and the rule of law.

Have a good day, and come back tomorrow for a Cartoon Saturday look at the world of GPS. More thoughts then.

Bilbo