Conservative podcast host Katie Miller says “Hate Has No Home Here” lawn signs mark exactly the places where hate actually lives.
Miller, the wife of deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser Stephen Miller, spoke with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday night about the number of celebrities who have made public jokes and comments about assassinating President Donald Trump.
Miller and Ingraham’s conversation was sparked by actor Mark Hamill’s Thursday post on Bluesky that featured an AI-generated image of Trump lying in a grave. The post was taken down Thursday afternoon.
“For a group that claims to be all about compassion and tolerance, they’re the most intolerant people on the face of the planet,” Ingraham said.
“The most intolerant people are the ones who have lawn signs that say ‘Hate Has No Home Here,’” Miller told Ingraham. “That’s exactly where hate has a home in America.”
“Hate Has No Home Here” is a phrase that promotes inclusive and welcoming communities, and originated in the North Park neighborhood of Chicago in 2016 after Trump was elected for his first term.
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Melina Much, a postdoctoral fellow at New York University’s Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics who specializes in political psychology, told HuffPost that, given the phrase’s origin, this could be another instance of a conservative figure trying to co-opt a progressive agenda and twist the narrative.
This has happened in the past, Much pointed out, with groups taking “Black Lives Matter” and tweaking it to “All Lives Matter,” and when conservative influencer Nick Fuentes took “My Body, My Choice” and said, “Your Body, My Choice.”
“What’s happening in [Miller’s] statement is the same sort of undercarriage of using these really high-profile, kind of viral language, and trying to reshape who has the moral high ground, and replace the blame,” Much said. “A lot of these progressive narratives are about this sense of morality and who has the moral high ground. [This] is trying to shift it back on itself or do this inversion.”
By using the same language, Much said, Miller keeps the phrase high-level and recognizable to the general public while reframing it with new connotations. It’s part of a broader form of cultural in-group signaling, Much said, which refers to shared symbols or traits that indicate membership or belonging to a certain group. In the case of “Hate Has No Home Here,” it’s mostly liberals.
Recontextualizing unifying mottos like this is also a tactic both liberals and conservatives have played with. The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” which became a rallying cry for conservatives to condemn former President Joe Biden during the 2024 election, was eventually inverted by liberals online into more of a joking meme.
Miller went on to say, “After now three assassination attempts on President Trump’s life, and yet, Democrats and these far-left radicals continue once again to have this hateful and violent political rhetoric.” Miller’s office did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Hamill’s post came almost two weeks after a man opened fire outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. The suspect has since been charged with attempting to assassinate the president, among other crimes.
The White House condemned Hamill’s post on X, calling the actor “one sick individual.”
“These Radical Left lunatics just can’t help themselves,” the post says. “This kind of rhetoric is exactly what has inspired three assassination attempts in two years against our President.”
There has been a longstanding history of using death-related imagery directed at elected officials, Much said. During former President Barack Obama’s first term in 2008, there were multiple instances where nooses and effigies of Obama were left out in public.
“This isn’t coming in a vacuum,” Much said about inciting violence against politicians, “and these AI-generated ones allow us to show that stuff, and it will spread a lot faster.”
After deleting the original post, Hamill posted on Bluesky again on Thursday, saying, “Actually, I was wishing him the opposite of dead, but apologize if you found the image inappropriate.” The AI image showed Trump against a headstone with his name and the years “1946-2024.”
