In the latest edition of As the Alt-Right World Turns – which has been spinning at an astonishing rate today – emails obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal Breitbart Chief Steve Bannon referring to Donald Trump as a narcissist roughly seven months prior to taking over his campaign.
According to the emails, on January 13th, 2016 – three weeks prior to the Iowa Caucasus – former Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos sent Bannon and editor-in-chief Alex Marlow a draft entitled “How Trump can win Iowa”.
Nonetheless Bannon was apparently perplexed.
“Why r we doing this,” Bannon responded.
“We want him to win, don’t we?” Yiannopoulos wrote back. “Well, I do…”
“No,” Bannon replied, and told his staffers to hold the story. “I’m totally indifferent. I’m darwinian…he who wins, wins.”
Four days later, on Jan. 17, Yiannopoulos kicked the tires on the email thread, linking to a CNN video in which Trump discussed his relationship with God.
At the time of the Iowa primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slammed Trump to the state’s evangelical voters by saying that he had never asked God for forgiveness.
“He NEVER asks for forgiveness!!!” Bannon wrote back. “It’s a joke having him discuss god.”
Bannon – according to BuzzFeed – eventually approved the piece under the condition that then Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro put together a dueling writeup in support of Ted Cruz.
So where does the narcissist comment come in? See below…
In response to Bannon’s criticism of Trump’s lack of humility before God, Breitbart’s Washington political editor Matthew Boyle chimed in. “…He can’t do anything wrong, at least in his mind,” Boyle wrote. “Trump is a genius at showing absolutely no weakness whatsoever and projecting macho man confidence. He is a giant walking, living, breathing self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“Narcissist,” Bannon wrote back.
Hmmm… I’m wondering if Trump’s unhinged tweet storm and dick measuring contest with Kim Jong Un had anything to do to deflect from today’s budding alt-right civil war?