“There comes a day in every child’s life when his Daddy bitterly disappoints him,” Milo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart tech editor and provocateur who resigned from the site earlier this year amid controversy over remarks he’d made about pedophilia, wrote on his Facebook on Thursday night.
The tone on Breitbart News, the outlet formerly led by Bannon, has remained studiously neutral so far, and even slightly critical.
“Republican Hawks Praise Donald Trump for Bombing Syria,” read one headline on Friday. Editor-at-large Joel Pollak wrote a piece weighing the pros and cons, cautiously praising Trump while not offering full-throated support for the move. Breitbart’s London editor, Raheem Kassam, tweeted on Thursday night that he was “apoplectic” about the strikes.
“Those who wanted us meddling in the Middle East voted for other candidates,” the conservative commentator Ann Coulter, one of Trump’s biggest champions in the right-wing media, wrote on Twitter. “Trump campaigned on not getting involved in Mideast. Said it always helps our enemies & creates more refugees. Then he saw a picture on TV.”
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