- Bannon has a coherent worldview, which is a huge advantage when all is chaos. It’s interesting how many of Bannon’s rivals have woken up with knives in their backs. Michael Flynn is gone. Reince Priebus has been unmanned by a thousand White House leaks. Rex Tillerson had the potential to be an effective secretary of state, but Bannon neutered him last week by denying him the ability to even select his own deputy.
In an administration in which “promoted beyond his capacity” takes on new meaning, Bannon looms. With each passing day, Trump talks more like Bannon without the background reading.
Trump's presidency is the XFL version of the executive branch. I just watched a very timely airing of ESPN's 30 for 30 on the rise and fall of Vince McMahon and Dick Ebersol's XFL. The XFL had tremendous hype. It was expected to be a vast improvement over the structure that existed before it by breaking all of the rules. The XFL would finally give us what we really wanted and deserved in football. The XFL set a top ten highest ever rating for it's opening game, people realized that it lacked substance, and it quietly went away in shame. We can only hope that a Trump administration goes that route.
There's a 30 for 30 about Trump. It's called Small Potatoes: Who killed the USFL. Trump bought a team in an upstart league and essentially killed the whole league singlehandedly trying to get his team into the NFL. The USFL was almost successful until Trump stepped in. He won an antitrust suit against the NFL and was awarded $!.