Steve Bannon was just forced out at the White House.
The DC press corps hated him from day one for his past work with their rivals at Breitbart.
Say what you will about Bannon – and plenty of ink has been spent doing just that – but he didn’t play the politically correct games DC expects of high-ranking officials.
Out of all of Trump’s advisors, Bannon was likely the hardest on Trump’s crackdown on illegal aliens.
Right now, the media is celebrating Bannon’s demise.
They see it as just another sign of a White House in chaos.
But what does this mean for the future?
Ann Coulter suggests Trump caved to media pressure in forcing Bannon out.
Others, like Ben Shapiro, are predicting Bannon will “go to war” with Trump arguing that his influence over him had waned as Kushner, McMaster, and Kelly gained favor with Trump.
It would make sense that Bannon finally got tired of being a marginal player and wanted out.
That also makes sense of Bannon’s behavior over the last week: he’s preparing for the possibility of war with Trump.
Bannon is deeply vengeful and supremely ambitious. He has already held the most powerful job he will ever have — unless, of course, his new job is to destroy Trump from the outside. And he set the groundwork for that job over the past week.
Bannon is also media savvy enough to know that he’ll never miss work being a Trump critic. The media will continue to book him. They’ll be eager to put him on television to criticize Trump; they think this will drive down Trump’s approval ratings.
Whether Trump was caving to media pressure or Bannon was tired of seeing his influence diminish, we may never know.
What do you think?
Did the media claim another scalp from the Trump White House?
Is Bannon’s departure a good thing for Trump?
Let us know in the comments.