“There’s no glamour to the job. I hated every second I was there,” Bannon says. “The West Wing has bad karma to it. They say, ‘Because you were doing bad stuff!’ But I was doing the Lord’s work.”
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Curiously, he never throws Trump himself under the bus, even praising the president for teaching him that there is no such thing as “bad press.”
“Donald Trump is a historical figure and a transformative president,” he says at one point. “Donald Trump will be in your personal life 30 years from now, whether you like it or not.”
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