Trump and Bannon first met in 2010 when they were introduced to one another by David Bossie, a mutual friend. Trump was thinking about running for president and so when they met each other they automatically hit it off discussing a wide range of issues from economics to immigration. At the time right wing populism was embodied in the tea party but both Trump and Bannon felt that they needed to mold a new kind of populism based on nationalists sentiments so as to combat what they deemed to be far more pressing concerns mainly China, free immigration and Islamic fundamentalism.

It`s difficult to say whether or not they knew it at the time but this was the forging of an alliance that would fundamentally alter the course of human history and create the greatest upset in American politics. Steve Bannon joined the Trump campaign in August of 2016 and proceeded to shape a political message based on ethnicity and putting America first over the prioritization of abstract concepts like Global Peace and New World Order.