Steve Bannon is in trouble. And no, not just because the once unstoppable force that was Bannon in the White House has taken a precipitous fall in our Shadow President rankings. No, Steve Bannon is in trouble because he's made mistake after mistake since the Trump team transitioned from campaign mode to governing mode. Bannon was instrumental in both Muslim bans that were struck down by the courts, he was a major part of the failed health-care bill, and he made the mistake of not just being in charge while Trump's already tenuous popularity plummeted, but also courting attention.

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.”

Bannon appeared on the cover of Time magazine, which seemed to imply that he was secretly pulling all the strings. Combine this with the very public reports of his battle with Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and you'll eventually get the kind of comments Trump made to the New York Post about the Shadow President's diminishing power.

“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.”

Well, The Washington Post has a new report out about how Bannon is handling everything and what his future may hold. It turns out the guy who once thought Sarah Palin would make a great president might be somehow getting crazier.

As tensions have heightened in recent weeks, the Bannon and Kushner camps have devolved into opposing firing squads. Team Bannon believes the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” a show the president watches regularly, are speaking regularly with Kushner and projecting his anti-Bannon sentiments.

Check out that paranoia! In his defense, the article also says the Kushner camp believes Bannon might be behind the stories tying Kushner to Russia, but that accusation makes more sense. Trump has been at war with Morning Joe for months at this point, and the logic of Bannon's worries make far less sense than the logic of Jared's. But if Bannon sees would-be career assassins everywhere, perhaps it's because that's the type of politics that he himself practices. And people often, on some level, believe other people are guilty of the same things they are guilty of. (See: Trump's "You're the puppet.")

If he does eventually get fired, at least Bannon will have gotten the world's weirdest Newt Gingrich quote as a parting gift.

“Bannon is a brilliant pirate who has had a huge impact,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump supporter. “But White Houses, in the end, are like the U.S. Navy — corporate structures and very hard on pirates.”

Thanks Newt, you weird, weird, weirdo, you.

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