Did Bruce Springsteen, Jason Kelce, and Snoop Dogg, along with other entertainment and sports celebrities, call Trump adviser Stephen Miller a "Nazi" and "the Goebbels of the cabinet"? No, that's not true: The claim that a celebrity "called Trump's homeland security official Stephen Miller a 'Nazi'" is made about at least 20 celebrities. The Facebook posts are from a spam factory based in Vietnam that uses artificial intelligence tools to publish fake articles promoted by Facebook pages also managed from Vietnam.
The claims are made in nearly identical posts on Facebook fan pages, including a post (archived here) shared by Bruce Springsteen Love page on February 23, 2026. The caption read:
Bruce Springsteen called Trump's homeland security official Stephen Miller a 'Nazi,' prompting Miller to lash out at the legendary rock singer.
'Springsteen is a sad, broken old man who is mostly enraged because he hasn't made anything worth listening to in years. Probably the longest string of flops, failures, embarrassments. This man has been degrading himself on stage with one lackluster performance after another for my entire adult life, and he is not taken seriously by anybody. Not by his family, friends, or community. He is a shell of a man and everybody disregards everything he says,' Miller ranted.
Springsteen originally blasted Miller as a 'Nazi' while talking about how Trump 'will not want to leave the White House,' saying:
'He set it up with, I guess he's the Goebbels of the cabinet, Stephen Miller. He's a Nazi! Yes he is, and he's Jewish. He should be ashamed of himself.'
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Tue Feb 24 15:28:11 2026 UTC)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Facebook)
A Google search (archived here) for the phrase "called Trump's homeland security official Stephen Miller a Nazi" identified several examples of the false claim and a real example of a famous entertainer calling Miller "a Nazi." According to Variety magazine (archived here) and other media reports, actor Robert De Niro said it in a Fox News interview in October 2025. Miller is quoted as responding by calling De Niro "a sad, broken old man" who "has been degrading himself on camera with one horrific film after another."
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Variety.com)
A Facebook search (archived here) for the same phrase found a long list of fake posts that copy aspects of the real De Niro article, but using the names of other celebrities, including:
- Bad Bunny
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Lauren Daigle
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Hubert Davis
- Neil Diamond
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Snoop Dogg
- Emmylou Harris
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Jason Kelce
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Carole King
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Brandon Lake
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Dan Lanning
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Willie Nelson
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Danica Patrick
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Calum Scott
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Nikki Sixx
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Bruce Springsteen
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Ringo Starr
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Teddy Swims
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Phil Wickham
- CeCe Winans
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Dwight Yoakam
(Image source: Lead Stories montage of screenshots of Facebook)
A look at Meta transparency data for the Facebook pages revealed that they all have one thing in common: managers based in Vietnam.
Another shared feature of these fake posts is they include a link to websites also managed from Vietnam.
The Vietnam connection is significant, since fact-checkers, including Lead Stories, have identified a major source of AI-generated false stories coming from a single operation based in that Southeast Asian country. You can see recent reporting and fact checks mentioning that country here.
Lead Stories has published a primer -- or a prebunk -- on how to identify these kinds of fake posts originating from Vietnam. It's titled "Prebunk: Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam'"
