Stephen Miller: Trump’s four years ‘most consequential,’ leaves ‘incredibly optimistic’

“What we achieved in the last four years would have been unthinkable in the span of even multiple presidencies,” he said after stepping out of the Oval Office for a last time Tuesday night.

Miller, who at times was more controversial than his boss and who never spoke ill of Trump, dismissed media reports that the president was depressed in his last days in office.

“He’s incredibly optimistic because he knows that he left it all out on the field. He gave everything he had to the cause and the mission. He left nothing in reserve,” said Miller.

“He never backed down from a fight on behalf of the American people. He gave everything that he had no matter how much was thrown at him from ‘fill in the blank,’ the big donors, big Silicon Valley tech giants, special interests, party insiders, the Washington and New York media, the foreign adversaries,” said Miller.

He ticked off several of Trump’s accomplishments, the headlines from a list of 603 the White House released over the weekend, highlighting immigration and securing the border.

“I would note that we are leaving our successor with the most secure border and most secure immigration system in U.S. history,” said Miller, who was a top aide to immigration hawk and former Sen. Jeff Sessions before being tapped to join the Trump campaign.

“Before Biden, every president has come into office with an unsecure border trying to figure out how to fix it,” he said, adding, “Joe Biden is the first president in American history who can be correctly told, ‘The border, sir, is already secure.’”

Biden, however, plans to open the border to migration and eventually give illegal immigrants in the U.S. citizenship, to the dismay of Trump aides.

When Trump takes up full-time residency in Florida, Miller said that he will continue to play an outsized role in the Republican Party and stay connected to his supporters.

“He has a lot of fighting left to do for the battle of America, and a lot of patriotic missions left to complete,” said Miller.

In many ways, Miller was an equal to Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and top aide. Kushner and wife Ivanka Trump are following the president to Florida, while Miller and his wife, Katie Miller, the former communications director for Vice President Mike Pence, plan to stay in the Washington area.

While Miller did not address the recent Capitol protests that top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, blamed on the president, presidential historian Doug Wead told Secrets that Trump leaves with a well of strong support from his fans — despite near universal media hate thrown at him.

While he has interviewed five former presidents, he said, “I have never heard audiences chant in unison, ‘We love you’ for any of them except Trump. If he wants to be a factor, he will be a factor.”