An NBC News report highlighting Vice President Mike Pence’s pick for his new press secretary touched off both bewilderment and amusement on social media as it was accompanied by a startling new discovery: Stephen Miller is dating a human woman.

According to Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff, the White House senior adviser is in a romantic relationship with Katie Waldman, the 27-year-old former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who now works for Pence.

The revelation’s shock rippled across social media, as users wondered how any woman could possibly date Miller — an uncharismatic man, as RawStory described him, who is “responsible for many of President Donald Trump’s most odious policies.”