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Donald Trump ‘was not briefed’ on an Executive Order he signed placing an ex-far right website owner on America’s National Security Council.

The President is reportedly fuming because he wasn’t told the piece of paper he signed would put Steve Bannon on the crucial committee.

According to the New York Times, not being fully briefed on the appointment is "a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban."

Bannon, the former CEO of far-right website Breitbart, is Trump’s ‘chief strategist’ in the White House - and is the first political appointee to be made a primary member of the Council.

The Executive Order originally removed Joseph Dunford, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - the highest ranking serving military officer - from the permanent Council, but the White House later indicated it was to walk back on the move.

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Bannon, 62, is a skilled propagandist and darling of the so-called ‘alt-right’ - a term used to describe a movement of racist, anti-Muslim and white supremacist people on social media, which got behind Trump’s candidacy.

Prior to Trump's election, Bannon had no experience in public service or national security.

He was instrumental in developing Trump’s executive order banning travel to the US from Muslim countries, and was reported to have insisted last night that the ban would apply even to people with lawful permanent residence in the US.

He took over Breitbart, which has become a platform for the so-called Alt-Right, in 2012, following the sudden death of founder Andrew Breitbart.

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While the site was always a right-wing fringe website, there was a shift in focus under Bannon’s leadership.

Former Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro told the Daily Wire, a conservative website: “Andrew Breitbart despised racism. Truly despised it. With Bannon embracing Trump, all that changed.”

It was reported this morning that the President's top team hold late night meetings in the dark because they can't work out how to turn on the lights in the White House cabinet room.

Washington DC history is full of legends of crucial decisions being made in dimly lit, smoke filled rooms.

But in the Trump team's case, the gloom is apparently down to them not being able to get their head around the technology.

And according to the New York Times , the lights are just one of the teething troubles the new President's team suffer.

They report that at late-night meetings, "aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room.