Not everyone has nice things to say these days about Breitbart News' executive chairman, Steve Bannon. The freshly appointed "chief strategist" to the Donald Trump administration has been blasted as a "misogynist," as well as a "racist, [anti-Semite], and white nationalist," and there are plenty of headlines on Bannon's Breitbart that would give such accusations some credence.

But rather shockingly, no one paints a darker picture of Steve Bannon than Steve Bannon himself:

In this dark day for Democrats, Bannon has become the blackest hole. "Darkness is good," says Bannon, who amid the suits surrounding him at Trump Tower, looks like a graduate student in his T-shirt, open button-down and tatty blue blazer — albeit a 62-year-old graduate student. "Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they" — I believe by "they" he means liberals and the media, already promoting calls for his ouster — "get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing." [The Hollywood Reporter]

It's not exactly the most reassuring comparison, but it turns out Bannon has a knack for describing himself. In the same interview, he clarifies, "I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist, I'm an economic nationalist," and says he is "Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors."

You can learn more about who Bannon is — or at least who he claims to be — at The Hollywood Reporter. Jeva Lange