Steve Bannon hammers Trump trading cards announcement: ‘I can’t do this anymore’
‘I can’t do this anymore,’ Steve Bannon says
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Your support makes all the difference.Even Steve Bannon has come out against Donald Trump’s latest “major announcement” that he is selling digital trading cards of himself.
The former president teased the announcement earlier this week with a cartoon video featuring Mr Trump in a Superman shirt. On Thursday, Mr Trump made it official.
“My official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection is here! These limited edition cards feature amazing ART of my Life & Career! Collect all of your favorite Trump Digital Trading Cards, very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Mr Bannon was not a fan of the new venture, but stopped short of blaming his former boss for the decision.
“I can’t do this anymore,” Mr Bannon said on his War Room programme while speaking with former Trump advisers Steve Cortes and Sebastion Gorka.
“He’s one of the best presidents in history. I gotta tell you. Whoever, what business partner and anybody on the comms team and anybody at Mar-a-Lago, and I love the folks down there, but we’re at war. They oughta be fired today,” Mr Bannon said. “And hey, you don’t have three harder corers than Cortes, Bannon and Seb Gorka. And we’re getting blown up all day on this.”
Mr Trump’s announcement was widely ridiculed as soon as it became public on Thursday. Mr Gorka said it never should have happened.
“It’s fun, it’s hyperbolic, but whoever wrote that, that pitch, should be fired,” he said. “I don’t want them to be making the presidential napkins for Mar-a-Lago.”
Elsewhere, former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn criticised the “digital playing cards.”
“Whoever advised him on that, I’d fire them immediately.
Mr Bannon served on Mr Trump’s 2016 campaign and in the early days of the Trump administration. Earlier this year, a federal judge sentenced Mr Bannon to four months in prison and fined him $6,500 for refusing to honour a subpoena issued by the House select committee investigating the Jaunary 6 riot.
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