Trump taps aide Stephen Miller to write inaugural address [View all]

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Source: Politico

Donald Trump and his top advisers have begun mapping out the themes for his inaugural address next month, as the president-elect has tapped Stephen Miller, his incoming senior White House adviser for policy, to write the historic speech.

Early discussions of the address have focused on laying out some of the structural problems facing the country, and then framing Trumps first-term agenda in more nationalistic than ideological terms. Among the half-dozen areas that Trump is considering issuing a collective call to arms to address are the nations education system, infrastructure, border security, the state of the military and the economy, in particular, the outsourcing of jobs.

The choice of Miller, the 31-year-old who wrote most of Trumps major prepared speeches in 2016, including his Republican national convention address that was criticized as overly dark, is of no surprise to Trump insiders. Miller played an unusually multi-faceted role on the campaign: a behind-the-scenes policy adviser, Trumps chief speechwriter and a speech-giver himself, becoming a skinny-tie-wearing fixture over the summer at Trump rallies as a warm-up act.

Miller, who spent part of last week with Trump in Mar-a-Lago, has consulted people both on and off the campaign as he puts together an initial draft of the speech, including Trumps incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

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