mexico and the secretary of state did not speak one public word of defense of the trump/bannon policies. education secretary betsy devos reportedly disagrees with the trump/bannon position on rolling back protections for transgender students. people like steve bannon, who spend their lives attacking government, always think that governing is easy, until they get inside the government. and now steve bannon has discovered that the unconstitutional executive order on immigration that he so foolishly co-authored has been killed by judges, judges more powerful than steve bannon, more powerful than the president. and although the trump/bannon presidency insists that the situation at our borders is an emergency, the white house continues to struggle and fail to come up with a rewrite of that executive order. sean spicer sunk into bureaucratic double speak today
administrative state. deconstruction is a word he got from the french philosopher, who s known for his criticism of modern philosophy. that s typical bannon, see how smart i am, who s going to catch this? deconstruction. i bet people at cpac were tuned into this word, but anybody in france would hear it and they would see that this is a guy who is not only powerful, but he reeks of the arrogance of power, intellectual arrogance. and that i think trump is impressed by him. i think trump looks at him and listens to this and says, wow. does steve bannon have an image yet in europe? has his image crossed the ocean yet? it s very negative. so what do they think when
no, bannon is a terrible snob. you know, he didn t say he was going to bust up the government. he was talking about the deconstruction of the administrative state. deconstruction is a word he got from the french philosopher, who s known for his criticism of modern philosophy. that s typical bannon, see how smart i am, who s going to catch this? deconstruction. i bet people at cpac were tuned into this word, but anybody in france would hear it and they would see that this is a guy who is not only powerful, but he reeks of the arrogance of power, intellectual arrogance. and that i think trump is impressed by him. i think trump looks at him and listens to this and says, wow. does steve bannon have an image yet in europe? has his image crossed the ocean yet? it s very negative. so what do they think when they see the guy who looks like he slept on the subway and he s the one with the president? they think he looks like
for america. in that empty section of donald trump s brain that should be occupied by knowledge and opinions an governing policy lives steve bannon. virtually everything that comes out of donald trump s mouth about policy and foreign and domestic is a version of what he has been told by steve bannon. the president s dark anti-american inaugural address came from steve bannon. steve bannon has more power than any white house staffer has ever had, but it is a power that is now in direct conflict with some members of the trump cabinet. those people who along with the vice president have the power to remove the president in favor of the acting president. while steve bannon was preaching to the converted at cpac today, secretary of state rex tillerson was in mexico, appearing with the mexican foreign minister, who publicly complained about trump/bannon policies affecting
media elites and others. and i think he tells donald trump every day, this is our mission. and it s going to get nasty, because you re going after some big targets who trump already has a bias against. he s always had a thing about the media. and i think bannon is trying to reinforce this notion that we re going to do this, we re going to change the world, you re going to be an historic figure. but the price is, you re going to get a lot of slings and arrows from those sleazy scumbag, you know, folks in the media who are the enemy of the american people. that s where trump is getting this. so right now, i wouldn t worry so much about trump turning on bannon. i think he needs to take a long while for that alliance, that intellectual alliance to fall apart. well, i think two things. david s right, i don t think bannon is impulsive. i think the president is impulsive. and i think that s visible every time he gets up in public. i think that s well known. no, bannon is a terrible snob. yo