Jared Kushner omits some foreign contacts on security form
And while officials declined to detail the specific recommendations of Trump’s top aides, the strikes that the President ordered reflected a break from the nationalist stance he adopted as a candidate that was driven, in large part, by Bannon’s advice.
As the Post reported, “One friend said he hates attending meetings, bemoans the need to frequently wear suits, and finds the government bureaucracy stifling”.
Another aide who could be reassigned is Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, who has tangled with Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a close adviser, the Journal said.
But they may not be able to. However, fears are rising that if Trump pushes Bannon all the way out, it would trigger a backlash at Breitbart, who are one of the biggest news outlets who hasn’t been publishing negative news about the president.
Whether he acts on it remains to be seen. He has a high tolerance for chaos, and a unique gift for creating it – and, despite his famous “You’re fired!” tagline from the show “The Apprentice”, an aversion to dismissing people.
A spokeswoman for Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, insisted that such accounts were untrue.
Since then, Trump has faced a number of setbacks to his young administration, including having an executive order on immigration blocked a second time by the courts, and failing to pass legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. They believe globalization has ripped off America and globalizers have sold American originalists down the river, including by allowing a large number of immigrants to become U.S citizens and effectively change the demographic profile of America.
Reports emerged Saturday that Priebus’s job is safe amid speculation he and Bannon may be at risk of getting reshuffled in a potential staff shakeup.
Kupchan, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan policy research group headquartered in NY, and also a professor of worldwide affairs at Washington’s Georgetown University, said McMaster’s steadying influence was encouraging. Trump’s first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was sacked in June during a tumultuous primary. The Freedom Caucus, a hardline conservative faction of the House of Representatives that some say were responsible for sinking the bill, was reportedly put off by Bannon’s dictatorial tone when he told them they had “no choice” but to vote for the AHCA. Allies are reportedly telling him to “lay low” while the heat is on.
No word on who might take on Bannon’s white supremacist portfolio.
Bannon was removed from the NSC in what the White House claims was a planned move.
Bannon and Kushner sat in on the meeting as well.
But it’s clear his position in the White House is in jeopardy.
“He’s got a long fuse for that kind of thing”, said one.