‘A Bush Person’: Bannon Shades Trump’s Chief of Staff Pick, But Argues MAGA Can’t Staff Every Role

Former Trump 2016 campaign manager and White House advisor Steve Bannon told his MAGA audience on Friday that they will have to live with some “establishment” Republicans in the second Trump administration.

“We came out for Susie Wiles and against McCarthy and Jeff Miller, that swamp. And is Susie perfect? No, she’s a DeSantis person, a Bush person. I got that. But you look at, remember, you’re making decisions here on alternatives that don’t kind of exist,” Bannon told his War Room viewers of Trump’s new chief of staff, adding:

Are there better MAGA people who might make a better chief of staff, hey maybe. But President Trump kind of wanted her. Doesn’t he get a vote? Doesn’t he get a say so? Hasn’t he done enough?

Earlier in the show, Bannon also reconciled with the fact that establishment Republicans would be part of the new Trump cabinet and administration.

“With everything is happening on transition and I’ll get into this in a second is that– I think if you ask President Trump right now on his transition, what he would tell you, the one thing he wants. Is for people to get along and for people to figure out how to make it work. You’re not going to have all MAGA in the White House. You’re not going to have all MAGA in these cabinet position is just not going to happen. You’re going to get some, but there are just going to be some establishment people there. That’s just reality,” Bannon said.

Senior Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski told NewsNation this week that Bannon does not speak for the president. “No one speaks for the President but the president, and what the president said and as he said it last night on the stage is that he’s going to be a president for everybody, and we’ve got an opportunity right now to unify the country to bring this country back together,” Lewandowski said on Wednesday night’s episode of Dan Abrams Live. (Dan Abrams is the founder and publisher of Mediaite).

Bannon has been a tear since Trump won on Tuesday night, promising to dismantle the so-called “deep state” and threatening to gut the Department of Justice and the FBI. He has also told Liz Cheney and Attorney General Merrick Garland they need to “lawyer up” as Trump’s DOJ will be coming after them.

Watch the clips above.