Steve Bannon, the semi-reclusive White House brain behind President Donald Trump's long-term strategic planning, made a rare public appearance on Thursday to clobber the political press as 'corporatist, globalist media' who will fight the administration at every turn.

Bannon, a former CEO of the conservative Brietbart.com news outlet, regularly dismisses most White House reporters as 'the opposition party,' a habit he renewed at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

'If you look at the opposition party and how they portrayed the campaign, how they portrayed the transition and how they're portraying the administration,' he said, pointing to the media section at the back of a cavernous ballroom, 'it's always wrong.'

Bannon, press secretary Sean Spicer and chief Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway have regularly pilloried the press for misreading the president's electoral viability and mischaracterizing his policies.

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon made a rare appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, sitting alongside White House chief of Staff Reince Priebus as he clobbered the political news media

Bannon and Priebus embraced and collaborated like stars in a buddy-movie comedy, dispelling media reports that they have been feuding behind closed doors

'If you remember, the campaign was "the most chaotic," you know, by the media's description, "most chaotic, most disorganized, most unprofessional, had no earthly idea what they were doing",' Bannon recalled.

'And then you saw them all crying and weeping that night, on the 8th [of November].'

Bannon sat alongside Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff who is the party loyalist yin to to his right-wing yang.

The two men offered widely divergent predictions about whether traditional media outlets will come to heel after a no-honeymoon period that an administration aide told DailyMail.com on Wednesday is 'the most aggressive ever from reporters.'

'I think there's hope that it's going to change,' Priebus said.

'I mean, we sit here every day and the president pumps out all this work and the executive orders and punching through the promises that he made to the American people. So we're hoping that the media would catch up eventually.'

'But we're so conditioned to it,' he said. 'I'm personally so conditioned to hearing about why President Trump isn't going to win the election. Why a controversy in the primary is going to take down President Trump.'

Trump plowed through a field of 17 Republicans on his way to the GOP nomination, and then beat Democrat Hillary Clinton by a sizable margin in the Electoral College.

Priebus (center), next to American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp (right), said he's hopeful the media's treatment of President Trump will become friendlier, but Bannon (left) insisted it will get worse over time

Bannon said he sees news outlets as tools of media companies that own them, few of whose interests are aligned with Trump's brand of nationalism.

'It's not only not going to get better. It's going to get worse every day in the media,' he said.

'They're corporatist, globalist media that are adamantly opposed, adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like President Trump has,' Bannon explained, giving media conglomerates credit for having 'internal logic' that makes sense for them.

He predicted that backlash from what Trump has called the 'fake media' will deepen 'because he's going to continue to press his agenda.'

'And as economic conditions get better, as more jobs get better, they're going to continue to fight.'

'If you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight,' he told a packed ballroom, looking at tables of reporters in the distance, 'you are sadly mistaken.'

Bannon said reporters routinely misunderstood Trump's policy goals even though they were all spelled out in his often-raucous campaign rally speeches

Bannon also said reporters 'never caught' the notion that Trump's agenda could be easily discerned from his campaign rally speeches.

The president's often hour-long stemwinders were chock full of policy pledges including an Obamacare repeal, U.S. withdrawals from multinational trade pacts, a wall on America's southern border, and enough pesos from Mexico to pay for it.

The often raw-language and raucous events were livestreamed worldwide.

'It was all in the speeches,' Bannon said Thursday. 'He went around to these rallies, but those speeches had a tremendous amount of content in them, right?'

'I happen to believe, and I think many others do, he's probably the greatest public speaker, in those large arenas, since William Jennings Bryan.'