GOP Senator Tillis Calls Miller's Greenland Comments 'Insane,' Demands He Be Fired

Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina issued a scathing public rebuke of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller following Miller’s declaration that Greenland should “obviously” be part of the United States and that “nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.”

Tillis called Miller’s comments “insane,” “amateur hour,” “amateurish,” and “absurd,” stating: “Either Stephen Miller needs to get into a lane where he knows what he’s talking about or get out of this job.” He urged President Trump to fire advisers who provide such advice, representing rare public GOP criticism of a senior administration official.

The rebuke came as Miller’s Greenland statements sparked international alarm, with Denmark’s Prime Minister warning that a U.S. attack on Greenland—a NATO ally—could end the alliance. Tillis’s criticism highlighted how Miller’s aggressive rhetoric was damaging U.S. relationships with key allies while exposing divisions within the Republican Party over the administration’s increasingly erratic foreign policy.