Steve Bannon's 'Days of Thunder'
President Donald Trump’s dizzying three weeks have prompted many in the media to revisit a famous Steve Bannon line: To win, the Right needs to “flood the zone” with political action — or, more pungently, with “bullsh**.” Is that what’s going on right now, Ben asked the MAGA movement’s media guru in a long interview this week.
“Of course. It’s worked,” he said. “The media is a complete total meltdown.” MSNBC, he said, keeps pushing outrages to the C block of programming. When things start going wrong, Trump merely has to turn to standup: “He goes all Mort Sahl on you, and he triggered you guys and they never went back to the hearings.” It all comes back to Marshall McLuhan:
“Everything is media. Media is the message, and Trump understands that,” Bannon said. “That’s why the Cabinet is all TV guys.”https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/02/09/2025/big-game?utm_source=newslettershare&utm_medium=media&utm_campaign=flagshipnumbered1
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