At the centre of the palace intrigue was Steve Bannon, the hardline nationalist who helped put Trump in the White House. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House review – tell-all burns all Read moreBannon, former chief strategist, had spilled the beans to Wolff with stunning candour. In a tweet on Friday night, Trump said Bannon “cried when he got fired and begged for his job. He may have imagined just that scenario.”On Thursday, Bannon called Trump a “great man”, but reconciliation still seems a long way off. “He was postliterate – total television.”In another passage, Wolff recounts how Trump is repeating himself with greater frequency.

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2018 07:00 UTC