Trump vs. His Chief Strategist: Key Differences Revealed 🧠

The biggest difference between the president and his chief strategist is<br />that Mr. Trump is far less constrained by the dictates of any single philosophy — even Mr. Bannon’s vision of Trumpism — than Mr. Bannon, who sees history as a succession of movements and power struggles.<br />Trump’s Blistering Speech at CPAC Follows Bannon’s Blueprint -<br />President Trump spoke at length about news coverage of his administration on Friday, just hours before<br />some news outlets, including , were turned away from a press briefing at the White House.<br />There is not a lot of daylight between Mr. Trump and Mr. Bannon on the issues, although the president often jokes<br />that Mr. Bannon’s economic populist agenda makes it hard to tell if the former Naval officer and Goldman Sachs executive is “alt-right or alt-left,” according to a Trump associate friendly with both.<br />On an operational level, Mr. Trump’s inexperienced<br />but confident White House staff members — dominated by Mr. Bannon — are leaning on Hill Republicans to draft tax overhaul measures and a replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act.<br />A day after his secretive chief strategist laid out a hard-edged new definition of conservatism animated by attacks on “the administrative state,” globalism and the “corporatist media,” Mr. Trump delivered a visceral gut punch of a speech<br />that executed almost all of the tactics that define the forever-war philosophy of the Trump-Bannon West Wing.<br />The symbiotic political and personal relationship between the two men — the rumpled near-recluse<br />and the compulsively public and image-conscious president — is driving much of the momentum and dysfunction of the White House, aides say.