STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Breitbart seems ready for one of Steve Bannon’s famed ‘wars.’
Just minutes after President Donald Trump concluded his Afghanistan policy speech Monday [8-21-17] night, the conservative site took an aggressive, critical approach to the address and Trump’s new policy. A banner headline blasted the president’s decision to extend the U.S. military commitment in Afghanistan as a ‘flip-flop’ that ‘reverses course.’
Articles likened him to his predecessor, President Barack Obama — a known sore spot for Trump.
Monday’s address in front of service members in Fort Meyer, Virginia, was a first, big test of what Breitbart will do now that Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, has returned to run the site he left to join Trump’s White House bid.
The new, re-Bannoned Breitbart didn’t seem to hold back at all.
‘Trump’s *America First* Base Unhappy with Flip-Flop Afghanistan Speech,’ blared one headline.
The lead of the main story contained a series of subtle digs: ‘President Trump unveiled his plan for Afghanistan after seven months of deliberation Monday evening, announcing tweaks around the edges of the current strategy instead of a different approach,’ read the lead sentence of Breitbart’s wrap on the speech.”
-Henry C. Jackson, “Bannon’s Breitbart tears into Trump after Afghanistan speech,” Politico, Aug. 22, 2017 12:06am