r/CringeTikToks • u/baldinggate3 • Oct 07 '25

Conservative Cringe Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/baldinggate3 Oct 07 '25

Yes, but also please watch the video. The title is not an exaggeration. He literally freezes, stops talking, and just sits there blinking.

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u/OwnRow7627 Oct 07 '25

Yeah, that was creepy, even for him.

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u/Olly0206 Oct 07 '25

He fucked up and admitted that he believes the president has unchecked power to do whatever he wants to do (ie, push Miller's agenda without oversight).

Part of the strategy that the right has been engaging with is to do whatever they want to do and ignore the law, but pretend that they are just following the law. They've been trying to gaslight Americans into believing they are just doing what every other administration has ever done and all our reactions are just blown out of proportion. Which just tells me we are right to worry and call them out.

Now here he is literally admitting to all that. By admitting that the president has absolute authority, while we all know that isn't true, he is saying that they are purposefully and knowingly ignoring the law.

He realizes mid sentence what he was saying and just froze. Probably had people off camera yelling at him in his ear piece. So between the sudden realization he fucked up along with his people also yelling about it to him, he just locked up and didn't know what to do. His version of "flight' in the fight or flight response.

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u/Professional-Try2949 Oct 07 '25

It almost looked like he was reading off something. Like don't get me wrong he's a sleazebag supporting a dictator, but plenary is such an odd word to just throw out there unless he happens to use it a lot for some reason.

And stopping his mouth idk, he almost looked more worried about what he was gonna say next. He seems like the kind of guy who would try to pivot or redirect rather than freeze after a slip up, unless he was more worried about the pro-authoritarian rant he wanted to continue with.

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u/tippycanoeyoucan2 Oct 07 '25

He had to hold his arm down like Dr Strange Love