The White House gossip that is most exciting insiders is not Donald Trump’s apparent belief that Joe Biden has been replaced by a robot, but rather the tangled personal and professional drama involving Elon Musk, former Trump staffer Katie Miller and her husband Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff and the architect of the president’s cruel deportation plans.

Katie Miller was assigned to the advisory board of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which Musk headed before leaving last week. Now, she’s left government altogether to take a “full-time” job with the drug-addled tech guru. Reports suggest she’s the force behind Musk’s recent PR blitz, including his first interviews with mainstream media in months.

Her departure – and new alliance with Musk – has turned quiet Beltway whispers into a full-blown frenzy. Speculation has spiralled into tabloid territory, with baseless but persistent rumours of a love triangle involving Musk and the Millers. A public clash between Musk and Stephen Miller over Trump’s “big beautiful bill”, combined with Musk showing up to his farewell press conference sporting a black eye, has only intensified the intrigue.

Only they know the full truth, but observers can’t help noting the irony: if Katie Miller left her husband for Elon Musk – a high-profile immigrant – it would be a deeply poetic twist for the man who helped design Trump’s anti-immigration agenda.