The biggest difference between the president and his chief strategist is

The biggest difference between the president and his chief strategist is
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.
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President Trump spoke at length about news coverage of his administration on Friday, just hours before
some news outlets, including , were turned away from a press briefing at the White House.
There is not a lot of daylight between Mr. Trump and Mr. Bannon on the issues, although the president often jokes
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.
On an operational level, Mr. Trump’s inexperienced
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.
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
that executed almost all of the tactics that define the forever-war philosophy of the Trump-Bannon West Wing.
The symbiotic political and personal relationship between the two men — the rumpled near-recluse
and the compulsively public and image-conscious president — is driving much of the momentum and dysfunction of the White House, aides say.