A short tour through some of the conflicts that have defined Trumpworld
If “a week is a long time in politics,” as a British prime minister famously said, the four roiling, permanent-campaign years of Donald Trump’s presidency feel like an eon, almost impossible to capture in short form.
But considering the adversarial air that has hung over almost every day of his presidency — described as Fire and Fury, the title of just one of the tell-all books from inside this White House — perhaps the best framework is a short tour through some of the conflicts that have defined Trumpworld.
Remember Steve Bannon? Today the former Goldman Sachs banker–turned–Breitbart News editor and populist is under investigation for financial crimes. In hindsight, it’s hard to believe that this man once had the ear of the president and was the most feared power player in the White House.
His battles with Jared and Ivanka Kushner were legendary. Bannon thought Jared was immature, as he said in a 2018 interview, and referred to the couple derisively as “Jarvanka.” But another nickname he gave them — “the Democrats” — is more revealing of the major policy differences that divided them.
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