Trump's top advisor says press has become opposition party

The United States President's chief strategist said in an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday that the press has become "the opposition party" and that it should "keep its mouth shut".


Steve Bannon, one of Donald Trump's closest advisers in the White House, said in an interview Wednesday that "the media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States".

"The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while," said Bannon, one of the architects of Trump's electoral victory and the former chairman of Breitbart News, a media organization that is part of the so-called "alt-right", a new far-right nationalist movement in the US.
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27/1/17