Donald Trump also sends Steve Bannon home from overseas trip, after sending Reince Priebus home
Donald Trump’s disastrous first official overseas trip has already seen him barely able to get through a speech, canceling events left and right, and sending his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus home early for reasons which still haven’t been properly disclosed. But whatever is going on, it appears to have taken an even stranger turn, because now Trump has sent Steve Bannon home as well.
So what is going on? Have these people been sent home to deal with the growing crisis surrounding the appointment of a Special Counsel in the Russia scandal and growing talk on Capitol Hill of impeachment? Is this a sign that these two advisers are on their way to being fired, as part of the long rumored senior staff shakeup? Did Trump get bored and begin treating the trip as if it were a mini-season of The Apprentice?
That’s still not clear, but what is clear is that Steve Bannon is now off the trip and back in the United States already, according to reporter Jim Acosta (link). He’s apparently at the White House today, a sign he hasn’t been fired yet. But this is far from normal behavior, even for an administration as discombobulated and broken as this one is.
Bannon was seen looking somewhere between frightened and petrified as he tried to figure out how to socialize with the Saudi government representatives, which may not come as a surprise considering the racist and xenophobic policies that Bannon has been pushing during his time in the White House and previously at Breitbart. So he may not be particularly sad at having been sent home. But the idea of Donald Trump sending home two of his top aides, one after another, in the middle of an overseas trip that’s already falling apart? This just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser.
