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Trump: "Who the f@&$ does this guy think he is?"
Axios ^ | August 19, 2017 | Mike Allen, Jonathan Swan

Posted on 08/19/2017 7:31:57 AM PDT by be-baw

Bannon didn't bother to go to work yesterday. He knew it was over.

At the end, Trump was beyond fed up, viewing Bannon as a self-aggrandizer who had built a personal narrative as the grand puppetmaster.

"Who the f**k does this guy think he is?" Trump has said incredulously to associates.

Axios' Jonathan Swan tells me it's no surprise Trump didn't issue a farewell message on Friday: The president can't stand Bannon at the moment. (Trump tweeted a belated "Thanks S" about Bannon on Saturday morning.)

But few people are ever really gone from Trumpworld, and we bet it won't be long before Bannon is regularly gossiping with Trump and counseling him.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: artofthedeal; bannon; bannonbackbreitbart; bannonresigns; fakemedia; fakenews; maga; triplechess; trumpbannon
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To: proust

We elected Trump President. And Bannon was made an advisor. But every time Bannon did not get his way he subverted the White House. Trump let Bannon in every meeting and he listened to Bannon. But whenever he chose against Bannon, Bannon would go behind his back to the press. Bannon needed to learn that we could not have two presidents. I don’t know if Trump always makes the right decision, but if Bannon wants to be president he should run, not hide in the weeds and whisper thinks to people.


41 posted on 08/19/2017 12:03:26 PM PDT by poinq
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To: LS

*FAKE NEWS ping*


42 posted on 08/19/2017 4:32:54 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: proust

He gives evidence. Besides that if the whole McMaster/Globalist conspiracy is true it means Trump is too stupid to see it, or they have dirt on him. It must be dirt because Trump’s not stupid.


43 posted on 08/19/2017 4:47:21 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: poinq

What’s the proof? Did you see Trump’s tweets about Bannon today?


44 posted on 08/19/2017 4:48:25 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: DesertRhino

See 48.


45 posted on 08/19/2017 4:49:19 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

Slightly different take. Anyone who knows Steve knows that he is not a nuts and bolts, detail guy. He is a big picture, action, visionary.

“THAT” part of the presidency is indeed over. Trump has all the vision he needs. He probably still has Bannon’s “white board” someplace. He doesn’t need daily reminding to build the wall, get tax cuts, eliminate regulations.

Indeed, there is an article today that DC is fearful cuz he isn’t even spending the money Congress is allocating, and they are allocating less in every area except defense. Trump ordered 10% across the board cuts everywhere.

So no, “that” part of the Trump presidency is well in hand.

Bannon is not suited to reading reams of briefs, and fighting over budget lines. Having him in such a position is a waste of time and energy.

In a military sense, it’s sort of like after Midway. Once we had the Japanese Navy badly crippled, then came the slog. Even with “island hopping,” it was brutal, bloody, but there was never, ever any question who would win. Bannon’s the guy who figured out where the Japanese fleet was.


46 posted on 08/19/2017 5:06:45 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: 9YearLurker

Just silly, and Bannon would tell you so, as he told me just two weeks ago in the EEOB. He and McMaster have differences of opinion, THAT’S ALL. “McMaster,” he said, “has done a lot of good things.”

Trump didn’t “side” with Ivanka dn the “coup minded generals.”

Where the hell do you invent this garbage?


47 posted on 08/19/2017 5:08:20 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Spare me, pal. I know you’re impressed with yourself. But if you think Bannon is telling you what’s going on...


48 posted on 08/19/2017 5:11:25 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: dynoman

That tweeter is a sunshine pumper. Not that the chronic bed wetters don’t need some of that to get them back onside.


49 posted on 08/19/2017 5:13:55 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: 9YearLurker

Is Bannon telling you what’s going on??


50 posted on 08/19/2017 5:14:19 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: 9YearLurker

He already did. Sorry you don’t have anyone to check facts with.

Next?


51 posted on 08/19/2017 5:17:20 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: lodi90

AND he's an optimist.

That gives him an advantage. https://t.co/pEnKTcEAfw— Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) August 19, 2017


52 posted on 08/19/2017 5:18:41 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: be-baw

More Axios run by former Politicos, started Jan. 2017, and posts garbage from unnamed sources.

Your specialty!


53 posted on 08/19/2017 5:43:09 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: proust; dynoman

If anyone reads Wictor’s twitter threads, if they are sane, they will realize he is one of the best news and events anaylsts on the internet.


54 posted on 08/19/2017 5:44:41 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: LS

Like the way you stated that fact.


55 posted on 08/19/2017 6:05:54 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: be-baw

Who is leaking this? Is it Jared?


56 posted on 08/19/2017 8:19:52 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

No one “leaked” it. Someone is lying and made up s*** and Axios put it on their website. Probably an Axios ie former Politico “journalist” made it up, the one who wrote the article most likely.


57 posted on 08/19/2017 8:37:24 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: LS

Thank you for the sanity


58 posted on 08/20/2017 10:09:27 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: LS

Again thanks

These Infowars nut jobs keep trying to get people to dump ztrump. It’s nuts but they keep trying


59 posted on 08/20/2017 10:10:54 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: poinq

“He (Bannon) is definitely not a team player.”

During my career I figured out that “team players” generally were weak assholes. If was the NOT team players who got things accomplished. JMHO, FWIW.


60 posted on 08/20/2017 10:17:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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