It seems that the minute that Steve Bannon was fired from the White House he ran right back to Breitbart to prepare for the war to come.
Bannon also reached out to the Weekly Standard to give yet another angry, whiskey inspired interview describing what that war will look like:
“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” Bannon said Friday, shortly after confirming his departure. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”
(Personally I always imagine Bannon's words coming out in a kind of drunken slur.)
Bannon says that his departure was voluntary, and that he’d planned it to coincide with the one-year anniversary of his joining the Trump campaign as chief executive, on August 14, 2016.
“On August 7th , I talked to [Chief of Staff John] Kelly and to the President, and I told them that my resignation would be effective the following Monday, on the 14th,” he said. “I’d always planned on spending one year. General Kelly has brought in a great new system, but I said it would be best. I want to get back to Breitbart.”
Other reports from inside the White House suggest that Bannon has been on his way out for some time, and that finally Trump had had enough of his constant attempts to take credit for Trump's election win and policy choices.
“Now, it’s gonna be Trump,” Bannon said. “The path forward on things like economic nationalism and immigration, and his ability to kind of move freely . . . I just think his ability to get anything done—particularly the bigger things, like the wall, the bigger, broader things that we fought for, it’s just gonna be that much harder.”
Bannon assigns blame for the thwarting of his program on “the West Wing Democrats,” but holds special disdain for the Washington establishment—especially those Republicans who have, he believes, willfully failed to provide Trump with meaningful victories.
And, he believes, things are about to get worse for Trump. “There’s about to be a jailbreak of these moderate guys on the Hill”—a stream of Republican dissent, which could become a flood.
Bannon believes that these moderate Republicans have purposefully interfered with Trump's attempts to keep his campaign promises about building that stupid wall and kicking all of the Muslims out.
“What Trump ran on—border wall, where is the funding for the border wall, one of his central tenets, where have they been? Have they rallied around the Perdue-Cotton immigration bill? On what element of Trump’s program, besides tax cuts—which is going to be the standard marginal tax cut—where have they rallied to Trump’s cause? They haven’t.”
“I think they’re going to try to moderate him,” he says. “I think he’ll sign a clean debt ceiling, I think you’ll see all this stuff. His natural tendency—and I think you saw it this week on Charlottesville—his actual default position is the position of his base, the position that got him elected. I think you’re going to see a lot of constraints on that. I think it’ll be much more conventional.”
Bannon is also under the impression that he has already made a lasting impact on American politics during his brief tenure in the White House, but now unshackled can do even more.
“I feel jacked up,” he says. “Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There’s no doubt. I built a f***ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about to go back, knowing what I know, and we’re about to rev that machine up. And rev it up we will do.”
"Hands back on my weapons," well this seems a little unsettling.
Especially since Trump significantly raised Bannon and Breitbart's profile, giving them the kind of mainstream conservative legitimacy that they struggled for before.
Bannon really could push Trump's agenda forward and shame Republicans for not supporting it, or turn on Trump like a rabid dog and help bring down his presidency.
Which clearly worries Trump enough that he is still smooching on Bannon's lily white, acne encrusted ass.
Bannon also reached out to the Weekly Standard to give yet another angry, whiskey inspired interview describing what that war will look like:
“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” Bannon said Friday, shortly after confirming his departure. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”
(Personally I always imagine Bannon's words coming out in a kind of drunken slur.)
Bannon says that his departure was voluntary, and that he’d planned it to coincide with the one-year anniversary of his joining the Trump campaign as chief executive, on August 14, 2016.
“On August 7th , I talked to [Chief of Staff John] Kelly and to the President, and I told them that my resignation would be effective the following Monday, on the 14th,” he said. “I’d always planned on spending one year. General Kelly has brought in a great new system, but I said it would be best. I want to get back to Breitbart.”
Other reports from inside the White House suggest that Bannon has been on his way out for some time, and that finally Trump had had enough of his constant attempts to take credit for Trump's election win and policy choices.
“Now, it’s gonna be Trump,” Bannon said. “The path forward on things like economic nationalism and immigration, and his ability to kind of move freely . . . I just think his ability to get anything done—particularly the bigger things, like the wall, the bigger, broader things that we fought for, it’s just gonna be that much harder.”
Bannon assigns blame for the thwarting of his program on “the West Wing Democrats,” but holds special disdain for the Washington establishment—especially those Republicans who have, he believes, willfully failed to provide Trump with meaningful victories.
And, he believes, things are about to get worse for Trump. “There’s about to be a jailbreak of these moderate guys on the Hill”—a stream of Republican dissent, which could become a flood.
Bannon believes that these moderate Republicans have purposefully interfered with Trump's attempts to keep his campaign promises about building that stupid wall and kicking all of the Muslims out.
“What Trump ran on—border wall, where is the funding for the border wall, one of his central tenets, where have they been? Have they rallied around the Perdue-Cotton immigration bill? On what element of Trump’s program, besides tax cuts—which is going to be the standard marginal tax cut—where have they rallied to Trump’s cause? They haven’t.”
“I think they’re going to try to moderate him,” he says. “I think he’ll sign a clean debt ceiling, I think you’ll see all this stuff. His natural tendency—and I think you saw it this week on Charlottesville—his actual default position is the position of his base, the position that got him elected. I think you’re going to see a lot of constraints on that. I think it’ll be much more conventional.”
Bannon is also under the impression that he has already made a lasting impact on American politics during his brief tenure in the White House, but now unshackled can do even more.
“I feel jacked up,” he says. “Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There’s no doubt. I built a f***ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about to go back, knowing what I know, and we’re about to rev that machine up. And rev it up we will do.”
"Hands back on my weapons," well this seems a little unsettling.
Especially since Trump significantly raised Bannon and Breitbart's profile, giving them the kind of mainstream conservative legitimacy that they struggled for before.
Bannon really could push Trump's agenda forward and shame Republicans for not supporting it, or turn on Trump like a rabid dog and help bring down his presidency.
Which clearly worries Trump enough that he is still smooching on Bannon's lily white, acne encrusted ass.
I want to thank Steve Bannon for his service. He came to the campaign during my run against Crooked Hillary Clinton - it was great! Thanks S— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2017
