Bannon says all promises will be kept
WASHINGTON: In a rare public appearance, President Donald Trump’s most senior adviser said the administration is “maniacally focused” on implementing all of his campaign promises.
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon chided the media — to whom he referred as the “opposition party” — and offered a counter-narrative to what has been largely reported as a tumultuous first month for the billionaire’s administration. He assured conservatives that White House operations were running smoothly and more “methodically” than portrayed.
Mr Bannon appeared with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, where thousands of conservatives have gathered to toast t he president’s unfurling agenda.
“The corporatist globalist media i s adamantly opposed to an economic agenda like Trump has,” Mr Bannon told moderator and American Conservative Union chair Matt Schlapp. “If you look at the opposition party and how they portrayed the campaign ... It’s always wrong. The campaign was the most chaotic, most disorganised, most unprofessional ... Then you all saw them crying and weeping [on Election Night].” Mr Bannon explained that Mr Trump’s policies were expressed in his campaign speeches. “All he’s doing right now is he laid out the agenda with the promises that he made. He’s maniacally focused on that.”
Mr Bannon is the former CEO of Breitbart, a news site which he has described as the platform for the once-fringe alt-right white supremacist subculture. However, his connection to the movement that was galvanised with Mr Trump’s has been swept under the rug by conservatives, despite the conference chair disavowing the group at the onset of the sessions.