This Picture Perfectly Captures Steve Bannon's Current Role In The White House

Ahh that time when you’ve been squeezed out by your boss’s daughter and her husband, forced to accept a demotion, and CNN stamps you as the goofy Easter bunny standing next to Trump. Tough times for Steve Bannon.

A few weeks ago I wrote about an inner-West Wing power struggle between Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner/Ivanka Trump. Bannon wants the President to double down on every campaign promise he made, moving further right. Kushner reportedly wants Trump to more strategically balance his messages in an effort to smoothen over bad blood with Democrats and pave the way for negotiably getting things done.

Bannon seems to have lost that battle. He was booted from the National Security Council a few weeks ago and has since accepted a diminished role in the administration.

Here are a couple different reports:

Source — As Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner’s roles as advisers to President Donald Trump evolve, will Steve Bannon be hearing Trump’s famous words ‘You’re fired” anytime soon?

The knives seem to be out for White House chief strategist Bannon after anonymous sources from the White House say the first daughter and her husband want him out.

Source — But since taking a West Wing office and an official government title, Ivanka’s influence has become more evident than ever, both in the realm of international affairs and closer to home, when it comes to her dad’s staff. According to a New York Times report, Ivanka has been instrumental in edging out Steve Bannon, her father’s former main man.

Although Ivanka “has never been close to Mr. Bannon,” sources close to her said she “appreciated the ferocity of his work.” But it seems she took issue with depictions of Bannon as her father’s “great manipulator:”

Family teaming up with family inside the White House to fight controversial advisors for who gets the President’s ear? It’s real life House Of Cards folks.