The term of President Stephen K. Bannon came to a sudden end less than a year after it began, when he was excommunicated during the first few days of 2018 by the order of Donald J. Trump, and the Mean Girl triumvirate of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Ivanka Trump, and Rebekah Mercer made it clear that he was no longer allowed to sit with them.

As this unique period in American political history comes to a close, RedState remembers: President Bannon.

Foreign Policy: President Bannon’s Hugely Destructive First Week in Office

This is looking very much like the Bannon Regency. It was Bannon and his sidekick Stephen Miller, a young former aide to senator-turned-attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions, who, according to the Wall Street Journal, wrote Trump’s kick-them-in-the-teeth inaugural address. And it was the two Steves who, according to CNN, ran the rollout of the immigration executive order on Friday afternoon, doing an end run around the normal interagency process and overruling the Department of Homeland Security to insist that the entry ban apply to hundreds of thousands of permanent residents who happened to hail from one of the seven banned Muslim countries.

Bannon’s ascendancy was ratified with the release of an unprecedented presidential order appointing him to the National Security Council’s principals committee while kicking off the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence. Who needs to hear from intelligence or military professionals when you can hear from the publisher of Breitbart?

Steve Bannon: The Great Manipulator.

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— Blendle (@Blendle) February 20, 2017

Take a look back at our cover story on Steve Bannon, 'The Great Manipulator,' from February 2017 https://t.co/RpsumVPjJq

— TIME (@TIME) August 18, 2017

GQ: In Case It Wasn’t Clear Yet, Steve Bannon Is Our President

If Donald Trump has shown anything during his first eleven days in office, it’s that he’s a coward with no ideas of his own, who is more than happy to be a puppet for the true president of the United States: Steve Bannon. Sure, Trump acts like he’s in charge, but that’s because he’s too dumb to realize that Bannon is so obviously pulling the strings that he’s become a joke. A real, impressive winner (not a Fake! Sad! Loser! like Trump) would recognize he’s being manipulated by a power-hungry jackass who is actively trying to destroy the founding principles of this nation. And what’s truly crazy is that that statement isn’t even slightly hyperbolic.

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New York Times: President Bannon?

Plenty of presidents have had prominent political advisers, and some of those advisers have been suspected of quietly setting policy behind the scenes (recall Karl Rove or, if your memory stretches back far enough, Dick Morris). But we’ve never witnessed a political aide move as brazenly to consolidate power as Stephen Bannon — nor have we seen one do quite so much damage so quickly to his putative boss’s popular standing or pretenses of competence.

Mr. Bannon supercharged Breitbart News as a platform for inciting the alt-right, did the same with the Trump campaign and is now repeating the act with the Trump White House itself. That was perhaps to be expected, though the speed with which President Trump has moved to alienate Mexicans (by declaring they would pay for a border wall), Jews (by disregarding their unique experience of the Holocaust) and Muslims (the ban) has been impressive. Mr. Trump never showed much inclination to reach beyond the minority base of voters that delivered his Electoral College victory, and Mr. Bannon, whose fingerprints were on each of those initiatives, is helping make sure he doesn’t.

But a new executive order, politicizing the process for national security decisions, suggests Mr. Bannon is positioning himself not merely as a Svengali but as the de facto president.

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The Fiscal Times: How Long Can Trump Tolerate the ‘President Bannon’ Headlines?

Given Trump’s sensitivity to slights and his anger at the suggestion that he is not as popular or as strong a leader as he believes he is, it seems reasonable to ask: How long is he going to be able to tolerate headlines declaring that it appears to be Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, that’s running the administration, and not Trump?

…The unkindest cut of all, for a president addicted to Twitter, may have been when the hashtag #StopPresidentBannon began trending on the social media platform after the administration’s controversial executive order on refugees was released on Friday.

Oh, that's right — #PresidentBannon is. pic.twitter.com/pePdaKlKON

— TruthIsLikeTheSun (@LostInAmerica77) October 1, 2017

#PresidentBannon exposed @realDonaldTrump "There's no military solution" to #NorthKorea https://t.co/ND2zsYwTam pic.twitter.com/HwyXeSdiKm

— 60'sLib (@don_nystrom) August 17, 2017

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