Posted on 01/04/2018 10:24:44 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Why is everyone so surprised by Steve Bannon’s comments in Michael Wolff’s new book? When Steve was fired by the president back in August, he announced to the press publicly that the "Trump presidency is over."
This was a strange and perhaps delusional statement coming from a White House aide.
Five months later, the president would sign the most sweeping tax cut in American history.
President Donald Trump would also end 2017 with a record stock market, record consumer and business confidence indicators and record unemployment.
So how is the Trump presidency over?
For sure, the media loves to both beat up on Steve Bannon and inflate his influence.
In the past, they have called Bannon an anti-Semite and a racist.
I have defended Bannon on both charges. He is neither. I believe Steve Bannon is a patriot, though misguided on many issues and dangerously zealous on others.
Interestingly, his biggest fans are not conservatives like me but media liberals who have ballooned his influence.
If you watch CNN and MSNBC, you would think Steve Bannon and his website Breitbart are directing the Trump administration while leading the conservative movement.
The truth is Steve Bannon represents just a small fraction of the Republican party, folks who champion protectionism, isolationism and nativism.
If you believe the media spin, he also elected Donald Trump.
But the truth is quite different: Trump elected Trump.
I first met Steve Bannon around the same time I met Donald Trump, about 20 years ago.
I have seen their stars rise and now collide.
A friend called me today and said: You predicted this earlier last year, Trump and Bannon would blow up together.
Yes, it was inevitable.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
It’s not much of a war...more like a self-immolation.
It’s not a distraction. Bannon is on record saying he wants to run for President after Trump is removed from office. No joke. The guy is an idiot. He should stop drinking so much, stop doing drugs, and get a better relationship with soap, haircuts, razors, etc.
It is Bannon being Bannon, boosting Bannon.
I thought at first this might be a grand master play by a master strategist, but the more I read and hear the more convinced I am that we all (most?) bought a Steve Bannon myth that was primarily concocted by Bannon and the MSM who saw pumping up his ego as a great way to cause chaos and disruption for Trump.
I have not been a fan of Ben Shapiro but this 13 minutes just about changes my mind 180 degrees. His perspective on Bannon is worth hearing, thanks to another FReeper for the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZoVpbtKZVM
I wondered if he was fond of alcohol. Is it true? He often looks disheveled.
I thought we were up to 12-D chess by now! /s
I agree, this is Bannon doing his own thing, unfortunately in a very self-destructive way. I don’t think it will have any impact on the Trump admin., really, but it is an annoying and unnecessary distraction. Bannon likes to think of himself as a “Big Thinker” but he certainly seems to have lost his focus and his judgment.
Trump just gave him a new name. Sloppy Steve. lol.
More I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve! 20,113 replies 9,337 retweets 34,567 likes Reply 20K Retweet 9.3K Like 35K
Bannon sees himself as smarter and more clever than Trump and everyone else; he isn't! He's the cretin who brought Wolff into the White House, gave the idiotic interview to 60 Minutes,and was probably one of the leakers.
Trump got Trump the nomination, just as Trump won the election, with his vision, his words, and nobody elese's!
This book is red meat garbage for lefties! And it gives all of the MSM a reason to quote from it, talk about it, and to IGNORE everything else that's going on; unfortunately.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY TRUMP! :-)
Bannon is one of those guys who always zigs when he should have zagged,
he acts like someone on opioids more than like a drunk, the guy couldnt make a good decision to save his life
A clean Bannon would just leave you with a Rove. The key part of the magnificent bastard phrase is the latter part. Just another self proclaimed architect. Trump wants to make America great again and he needs great Americans to help in that effort.
I love it. Sloppy Steve. He’s done.
Don’t get sucked into this.
You are smarter than that.
You are funny.
Right now, to my mind, it makes more sense that Steven Bannon has made some crucial mistakes for some reason. He has pissed off Trump and all his supporters. He has hurt his news org. He isn’t much speaking out on this. A lot of the things he’s done in the past suddenly make more sense if he has done them due to some melange of temper, ego, addiction, butthurt. I think he is not who I thought he was, no matter how smart.
You say for some reason. I do respect that.
Just capture your names.
Trump and Co. does not play.
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