Top Trump strategist Steve Bannon disdains the media, but he had plenty to say publicly while hosting a daily radio show for Breitbart News before joining Donald Trump's team. USA Today has listened to dozens of hours of recordings from 2015-16, and the Washington Post did a similar deep dive to get a better handle on the views of one of the president's most influential advisers. Both analyses paint a similar picture: He views Islam as a violent religion that poses a direct threat to the US and Christianity, and he pushes American "sovereignty" strongly, hoping to limit immigration and ditch multi-nation trade agreements. Some of the snippets cited:
- In May, he called President Bush's post-9/11 declaration that "Islam is peace" the "dumbest" comments he made during his presidency. In fact, Bannon called Islam "the most radical" religion in the world.