Donald Trump's chief strategist has accidentally revealed his aims for the presidency, by inadvertently posing for a "selfie" in front of his planning whiteboard.

Steve Bannon, the adviser who provided much of the ideological foundation for Mr Trump's election campaign, posed for a photograph with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a Jewish author and broadcaster, at the White House.

Donald Trump's strategist Steve Bannon poses with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Credit:Twitter

Mr Boteach later tweeted out the picture with a comment declaring: "Steve is a great, stalwart friend of the Jewish state."

But the image also captured a whiteboard behind them where Mr Bannon had scribbled his policy vision.