Steve Bannon

Throughout Donald Trump's unexpected ascendancy from walking punchline to walking punchline with nuke codes, political strategist and oily sack of potatoes discovered in the back of the cupboard on moving day Steve Bannon was one of the president's most trusted and influential advisers.

Of course, Trump aides have proven to have roughly the same shelf life as Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers at Hogwarts, so it came as no surprise when Bannon was booted from the White House back in August.

Steve Bannon has been ousted from his role as chief strategist for Donald Trump.

Or Steve Bannon has resigned from his role as chief strategist for Donald Trump.

Backstabbing, bitter rivalries, vulgar tirades, graphic descriptions of revloting sex acts ... the new season of Game of Thrones is left in the dust by the daily updates coming out of the White House, and it would all be very entertaining if it weren't so horrifying.

The Trump administration's latest affronts to out political system and the bedrock principles of basic human decency come to us courtesy of the Littlefinger of Long Island, new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci.

Steve Bannon is not the kind of guy you expect to engage in body-shaming.

For starters, he looks like if someone put a suit and tie on Keith Richards' liver and taught it words like "globalist" and "cuck."