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Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World?
Source: Time
Most modern Presidents chart their opening moves with the help of a friendly think tank or a set of long-held beliefs.
Donald Trump's first steps had the feel of a documentary film made by his chief strategist and alter ego Stephen K. Bannon, a director who deploys ravenous sharks, shrieking tornadoes and mushroom clouds as reliably as John Ford shot Monument Valley.
Act I of the Trump presidency has been filled with disruption, as promised by Trump and programmed by Bannon, with plenty of resistance in reply, from both inside and outside the government. Perhaps this should not be surprising. Trump told America many times in 2016 that his would be no ordinary Administration. Having launched his campaign as a can-do chief executive, he came to see himself as the leader of a movement--and no movement is complete without its commissar. Bannon is the one who keeps the doctrine pure, the true believer, who is in it not for money or position, but to change history. "What we are witnessing now is the birth of a new political order," Bannon wrote in an email to the Washington Post.
This forceful presence has already opened cracks in West Wing. The Administration was barely a week old when, on the evening of Jan. 27--with little or no explanation to agency heads, congressional leaders or the press--Trump shut down America's refugee program for 120 days (indefinitely in the case of Syrian refugees), while barring travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries. Almost immediately, U.S. customs and border agents began collaring airline passengers covered by the order, including more than 100 people whose green cards or valid visas would have been sufficient for entry if only they had taken an earlier flight. Protesters grabbed markers and cardboard scraps and raced to airports from coast to coast, where television cameras found them by the thousands.
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Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World? (Original Post)
demmiblue
Feb 2017
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. Trump being a fool makes him the most powerful man in the world.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)2. That's the face
of someone who clearly hates humanity.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)3. Someone needs to show him what soap and water are for.
He has the dirty skin look of someone that rarely washes. The dirt gathers with grease in the pores and crevices and becomes a part of your skin. And his hair is a grease pit that separates into groups of strands. I bet he stinks up close. Or he pours on Old Spice to cover the BO instead of washing. The blackheads are competing with the liver spots on his face as well. Classic look of an alcoholic.
TexasProgresive
(12,159 posts)4. 2nd only to putin?
longship
(40,416 posts)5. Somebody please enroll him in the Dollar Shave Club!
Plus his hair looks like he cuts it with hedge sheers and combs it with an egg beater.
This man has no style whatsoever.
And yes, send him a bar of soap while you're at it. Hopefully for his mouth.