Trump v Bannon, Musk v Farage: who hates who in Magaland
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The feuds and rivalries within the US president-elect’s Maga ecosystem – including some British sympathisers. The task of deconstructing the internal manoeuvrings of the leadership of the Soviet Union was once regarded as little short of a science such was the paucity of information. Today, the court of Donald Trump is perhaps no less enigmatic – but for quite different reasons. Trumpologists trying to keep up with the machinations of the Make America Great Again (Maga) movement and its sympathisers in Britain are faced with a torrent of information via social media posts and podcast rants. Sworn enemies today can easily be the closest of conspirators tomorrow. Steve Bannon has let it be known that he intends to bring down fellow Trump acolyte Elon Musk in time for inauguration day (with days to go). It is no easy task to make sense of it all but here is what we know of the current feuds and rivalries in the Maga ecosystem:.
![[Daniel Boffey]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/06/Daniel-Boffey,-L.png?width=75&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
He was said to be the Trump-whisperer. The best talent in politics, according to the president at the start of his first term in the White House. Bannon, executive chair of Breitbart, the anti-establishment website, was flying high. Until he wasn’t. After the author Michael Wolff portrayed Trump as being an erratic charlatan reliant on Bannon’s brains, the president’s all-powerful chief strategist was suddenly “Sloppy Steve”. It probably didn’t help that Bannon also described the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, as “dumb as a brick”.
![[Montage with b/w photos of Trump and Bannon]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a591ca8bc496a6a3f91a1683aaf10a44a2f892d3/1_0_4999_3000/master/4999.png?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
