The Antifa Experience: Miller’s Immersive Horror for Trump
Breaking down the “Antifa Roundtable” in the White House.
At ten years old, I begged my mother to take me to see Alien. I remember clearly the exact moment the chestburster emerged and I ran for the exit of the theater—which I immediately regretted. From then on, I took a high interest in movies that truly scared me. It’s not that I’m so much of a horror fan, but I’ve found it to be a useful tool for facing, and conquering, my own fears.
I built a career on creating immersive experiences for other people—virtual reality, augmented reality, alternate reality games—but I am also an aficionado of the genre. About 15 years ago, I became interested in immersive horror experiences. I have done dozens of these, from high production-value haunted houses, to gritty, physical experiences like BLACKOUT.
The Victim Experience
The one event I will never forget was called The Victim Experience—which sought to give you a realistic depiction of violent crime. Trust me, it delivered.
I won’t go into the details, but the description vastly undersells it. Basically, after the regular hours of a Halloween haunted house in Las Vegas, the crew of twenty-five people—who served thousands every night—would all focus on just one person at a time. They gave you a safe word and made you sign a stack of agreements promising not to sue them when it was over.
I made it almost all the way through to the end, but tapped out the second time they tried to drown me in a trash can. The safe word, as I will never forget, was “Albuquerque.”
The Antifa Experience
In the White House Wednesday, Stephen Miller created a parallel immersive horror experience for one person, Donald Trump. It was officially called the “Antifa Roundtable” and involved a dozen or so far-right provocateurs and prominent members of Trump’s cabinet constructing a vivid, frightening tale of a massive terrorist conspiracy aligned against his regime.
As someone who has both built and experienced this kind of theater, it was shoddy craftsmanship by all concerned—bad writing, bad acting, and bad directing—but none of that matters if you know your audience well enough.
Audience
The target demographic was one person: Donald Trump.
Director
There can be no doubt who the director of The Antifa Experience (TAE) was: Stephen Miller, who vowed to go after the “radical left terrorist network” that he blamed for Charlie Kirk’s murder. At the “roundtable,” Miller, usually not the shy one in the crowd, said nothing. He had already written the script and he was just there to watch the actors play it out.
Plot
The basic plot of TAE is very old school: Antifa is a vast, invisible terrorist network that wants to take down the Trump regime through violence; MAGA is the only thing that can stop it.
According to the official White House reality:
Antifa is not a loose ideology—it is a coherent, militant network
Not a decentralized protest umbrella, but a terror organization with hierarchy, cells, funding, foreign ties, and operational unity.
The network has command, funding, safe houses, shift changes, and international co-conspirators.
Antifa is heavily coordinated, professional, and invisible
Antifa signs are used across cities, identical expensive posters, coordinated operations.
Antifa militants travel between cities (busing, infiltration) and operate in sync.
Antifa attacks in symbolic ways and provokes escalation
Burning flags to incite riots, targeting ICE agents, staging violent confrontations, doxxing, using sniper tactics.
Antifa is not just protesters but armed militants whose aim is political violence, suppression, and terror.
Antifa is enabled by complicit local officials and media
Mayors and governors are covering it up, refusing to enforce law, even cheering rioters.
Media is lying, aiding Antifa by calling them “activists” or “protesters,” or by deleting footage (censorship).
The narrative includes usage of judicial decisions and “freedom of speech” loopholes to restrain prosecutions.
Organization is deep
There is a funding network (“Riot, Inc.”) involving Open Society / Arabella / Tides / foreign money / taxpayers, laundering into mutual aid and radical groups.
By going after funders and money flows, the entire structure can be dismantled “from top to bottom.”
Trump is the singular hero / executor
All the narrative nodes (funders, safe houses, militant cells, media complicity) funnel into the need for executive action—investigation, prosecutions, FTO designations, app takedowns, federal law enforcement surges.
The influencers are eyewitnesses / evidence bringers; they give Trump the “proof” needed to validate his worldview and authorize escalation.
NOTE: None of this is true.
Characters—Antifa Hunters
The actors Stephen Miller brought in to perform The Antifa Experience for Trump are a collection of white nationalist provocateurs whose jobs are to create propaganda.
Jack Posobiec—Anti-Antifa Veteran
Neo-Nazi Jack Posobiec, one of the most prolific MAGA propagandists of the last decade, was first up to summarize the dangers of Antifa in the White House, which he compared to anti-fascist activists in Weimar Germany—literally taking the side of the Nazis.
Antifa is real. Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years and some instances going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany. And it’s now been just under one month since we saw a far-leftist murder, Charlie Kirk, and we saw thousands upon thousands of people, other far-leftists and people in positions of authority. People like nurses and pilots and doctors and HR departments, celebrating the death and the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Jack Posobiec doesn’t mention that all members of Antifaschistische Aktion—which was nicknamed “Antifa”—were rounded up and sent to Dachau concentration camp in 1933.
Andy Ngo—Survivor / Embattled Witness
Fascist propagandist Andy Ngo is one of the primary sources of TAE official canon. An incident of a protester throwing a milkshake at him in 2019 has been… milked for all it’s worth.
Ngo describes multiple ambushes, a brain hemorrhage, being chased, and attacked. He frames Antifa as a personal, violent enemy, supplying vivid trauma stories.
All of it is deliberately manufactured. Ngo currently runs the right-wing propaganda website “The Post Millenial.”
Nick Sortor—Flag Burning Catalyst & Riot Provocation
Nick Sortor is a prolific Twitter poster and provocateur who travels to “conflict zones,” like peaceful Portland, to piss off local residents and then record it as evidence of his victimhood.
He recounted being assaulted for protecting an American flag, presenting the arc: flag burning → mob reaction → violence.
Based on this incident, Donald Trump posted on Truth that flag-burning—which is protected by the Supreme Court—will now come with a one-year prison sentence.
As a reminder, only Congress can make laws and define crime.
Katie Daviscourt—Undercover Infiltrator
Katie Daviscourt is a low-level right wing operative who has worked for alt-right outlets like Rebel News and Andy Ngo’s Post Millennial. She showed up to the White House with an obviously painted-on black eye.
Daviscourt claimed she infiltrated Antifa cells, discovered a safe house with shift changes, mutual aid funding and direct inside intelligence.
All nonsense.
Brandi Kruse—Testimonial Booster / Moral Witness
Brandi Kruse is former TV reporter—now a podcaster who claims to have had Trump Derangement Syndrome before suddenly seeing the light.
Kruse framed herself and others as long-suffering, offered gratitude to Trump, and claimed they’ve been ignored for years. She provided amplification and moral validation—making Trump feel responsible and empowered.
Julio Rosas—Ideology Interpreter & Global Linker
Julio Rosas is a far-right provocateur and author of “Fiery (But Mostly Peaceful).” He was invited as a congressional witness for “Mostly Peaceful: Countering Left-Wing Organized Violence.”
With no evidence, Rosas compared Antifa to ISIS, and MS-13, and framed their ideology as existentially dangerous to the republic.
James Klug—Damage Claims & Violence Amplifier
James Klug is a YouTuber who does confrontational interviews for a living.
Klug asserted false claims like Antifa being responsible for “billions in damage,” “thousands of injured officers,” and claimed media avoids the violent truth.
Nick Shirley—Network Visibility Agent
Nick Shirley is a few years out of high school and like many of the others, goes to locations requiring propaganda—and manufactures the evidence he needs.
Shirley claimed he saw identical signs in multiple cities, saw busing, even a DHS sniper laser pointer. He built the “network effect” illusion—claiming it showed it isn’t just random protests but a coordinated operation.
Savanah Hernandez—Media/Persecution Narrator
Savanah Hernandez is a provocateur and an employee of Charlie Kirk’s fascist youth organization Turning Point USA.
Hernandez framed media as the enabler/partner of the conspiracy (deleting footage, labeling them Nazis), and cited her multiple bans as censorship.
She bridges narrative: showing the media is complicit in hiding the conspiracy and prevents counter-narratives.
Seamus Bruner (“Clinton Cash”)—Fund Flow Architect
Seamus Bruner is a long-time conspiracy theorist and propagandist with a specialty in making up financial connections that don’t exist.
Bruner presented the “Riot, Inc.” scheme, naming Arabella (Soros), Tides, foreign money, $100M+ flows, including uses of taxpayer dollars. He provided the financial backbone of the conspiracy—”the money trail” is always compelling.
Jonathan Choe—Infrastructure & Front Org Linker
Jonathan Choe is another former reporter who was fired for his coverage of the Seattle protests in 2020. Now he works at the right-wing Discovery Institute to “Fix Homelessness.”
Choe claimed Antifa is embedded in homeless/nonprofit sectors, DSA, and Stop the Sweeps. He built a narrative of legitimacy laundering through ”radical groups hiding in community institutions.”
Cabinet of Incuriosity
Trump’s cabinet—AG Pam Bondi, DHS director Kristi Noem, and FBI Director Kash Patel—all mirrored the false testimony of the Antifa Hunters, offering nothing but slabs of rhetoric designed to prop up the invisible “enemy within.”
As an example of the depth of knowledge of Trump’s senior-most officials, Trump was asked by a reporter whether he intends to suspend habeas corpus—one of the most fundamental rights of any American citizen—“to deal with these insurrectionists and also to rapidly deport illegal aliens.”
Trump appeared to have no idea what it meant, and handed it off to Kristi Noem, who seemed just as confused by the term.
Alternate Reality Theater For One
Whether Kristi Noem or Donald Trump actually know what habeas corpus means is really immaterial. Stephen Miller most certainly does. Miller knows legalisms and pesky issues like the Constitution are uninteresting to his boss—so he breaks things down into pieces that Trump can understand.
For example, Trump knows there are people that don’t like him and say mean things about him. Therefore, Trump believes they should be silenced. That’s what The Antifa Experience was really all about—giving him a reason to take away American freedoms. Asked by a reporter about flag burning, Trump went ahead and said it out loud:
“We took the freedom of speech away because that’s been through the courts…”
We have seen this dynamic of delusion before.
Séance of Self-Deception
In Hitler’s final weeks in the Führerbunker, he and his advisors held “séance-like” meetings where an alternate reality of the war was presented and acted out—complete with maps and phantom troop movements.
“In the stillness of the bunker we strengthen the Führer’s spirit… Faith must create reality.” —Joseph Goebbels
“Faith must create reality” is the process operating in the White House right now. The fantasy world being created for Donald Trump is the world he uses for his executive decisions—which affect real people.
“He spoke to the maps as though commanding invisible divisions. … We had become participants in a séance of self-deception.” —Heinz Linge (Hitler’s valet), With Hitler to the End (1980)
Antifa are the “invisible divisions” Trump is fighting against. The Antifa Experience directed by Stephen Miller in the White House is the “séance of self-deception.”
The Seal Must Be Broken
The immersive alternate reality performance presented by the bottom-tier propagandists in the White House on Wednesday—of a massive conspiracy of “Antifa” that must be defeated using the full power of the U.S. federal government—was designed to provide the “evidence” to back up Miller’s plan to create a one-party dictatorship.
All dictators need an “invisible enemy”—conspiracy theories are universal in authoritarian regimes. The chief conspiracy theory of the Nazis was a Jewish-communist plot to take over Germany, portrayed as a crucial step to taking over the world. This “dot-connecting” was not just a lie, it was the exact deception that led to the slaughter of both communists and Jews.
The difference between the Nazis’ obsession with a “Bolshevik plot” and Miller’s obsession with an “Antifa terrorist network” is merely superficial.
If America allows this poisonous lie to sink in, the results will be no different.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
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Unbelievable....but not. Thanks, Jim, your writing deserves much further reach.
I'm hoping the fact that Miller is so repulsive in many ways to a wide swath of Americans whatever ones politics will hurt his sick plans. This is one deranged dude, and almost certainly a coward. I look forward to the day we all mock him and he faces legal consequences for his illegal and likely treasonous actions.