Donald Trump appointed the Breitbart News founder as his chief strategist
Count Seth Meyers among those who are vehemently opposed to Breitbart News founder Steve Bannon serving as President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist.
Trump announced on Sunday that Bannon will be his chief strategist and senior counselor in the White house.
“And just to give you a sense of how extreme Breitbart is, the website recently accused President Obama of importing more hating Muslims, compared Planned Parenthood’s work to the holocaust, called Bill Kristol, the conservative commentator, ‘a renegade Jew,’ and advised female victims of online harassment to just log off and stop screwing up the Internet for men,” said Meyers.
Donald Trump's Appointment of 'Anti-Semite' as Chief Strategist Sparks Media, Political Pandemonium
Since Trump’s announcement, several other media outlets have slammed his decision.
NBC’s Benjy Sarlin said “Bannon’s ascension is the clearest sign yet that Trump will maintain his ties to the populist white nationalism that helped propel him to the White House against overwhelming opposition from party leaders and traditional media.”
Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Alan Rappeport wrote in the New York Times that the appointment signals “an embrace of the fringe ideology long advanced by Mr. Bannon and of a continuing disdain for the Republican establishment.”
