Stephen Miller Says Trump’s DC Crackdown Will Also Target Graffiti

The senior White House staff member called graffiti a ‘visual declaration of a society’s surrender,’ and said it’s ‘coming down.’

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller at a press briefing at the White House in Washington on May 1, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS

President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington will include a renewed effort to eliminate graffiti, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said on Aug. 17.

“Graffiti left untouched to scar public spaces is the visual declaration of a society’s surrender,” Miller wrote in an Aug. 17 post on X. “The graffiti is coming down in Washington, DC.”