A phrase you hear tossed around about someone who is held in very high regard is, "They have the courage of their convictions." A phrase you don't ever hear said about someone who is held in very high regard is, "They have the courage of their Twitter @replies." And yet only one of those two phrases can be said about President Donald Trump, and it's not the good one. For months now, we, along with many others on the Internet, have taken to calling our president by his real name: Steve Bannon.

The Steve Bannon–Jared Kushner Holy War Is Tearing the Trump White House Apart Steve Bannon is reportedly calling Jared Kushner a “cuck” and a “globalist.”

Hell, the idea of President Bannon became such an overwhelmingly accepted one that we have a whole column that ranks who is really running the government, and though the top spot changes, the answer is decidedly never Donald "Useful Idiot" Trump.

Well, it turns out Donald Trump hated the talk of "President Bannon" just as much as everybody thought he would, and it's beginning to look like the white supremacist might finally be pushed out. Trump was given a chance to say that he has Bannon's back in the New York Post, but he didn't seem too eager to do that.

“I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,” Trump said. “I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve. I’m my own strategist and it wasn’t like I was going to change strategies because I was facing crooked Hillary.” He ended by saying, “Steve is a good guy, but I told them to straighten it out or I will.”

This is hilarious. So we're beginning to see a new pattern. If you run Donald Trump's campaign and then become a liability to him, he will claim you hardly had anything to do with his campaign. (See: Manafort, Paul and Putin, Vladimir.) That, of course, runs counter to other narratives like, I don't know, "reality":

But if I'm being honest, this kind of manipulation of our president feels dangerous. If a bunch of bloggers and Twitter people can turn him against his chief adviser by building up said adviser, what's to say that a foreign power can't manipulate him just as easily... It's a tough question, and one that President Kushner is going to have to figure out.

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