--- title: Steve Bannon Is Officially Back at Breitbart description: Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is back at Breitbart News after he left the Trump administration Friday canonical: https://time.com/4907530/steve-bannon-breitbart-news/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-18T22:29:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T21:25:26.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Steve Bannon Is Officially Back at Breitbart og:description: After being fired from the White House og:url: https://time.com/4907530/steve-bannon-breitbart-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1b648749d0ac3f9/6988da5cab6d77b2686af769/steve-bannon-breitbar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Neil Gorsuch Is Sworn In As Associate Justice To Supreme Court og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Steve Bannon Is Officially Back at Breitbart twitter:description: After being fired from the White House twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1b648749d0ac3f9/6988da5cab6d77b2686af769/steve-bannon-breitbar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Steve Bannon Is Officially Back at Breitbart > Sponsored content. 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Updated: Dec 14, 2023 9:25 PM UTCPublished: Aug 18, 2017 10:29 PM UTC  White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon attends a ceremony in the Rose Garden where Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch was administered the judicial oath at the White House April 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon attends a ceremony in the Rose Garden where Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch was administered the judicial oath at the White House April 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 14, 2023 9:25 PM UTCPublished: Aug 18, 2017 10:29 PM UTC Former White House chief strategist [Steve Bannon](http://time.com/4907499/steve-bannon-war-donald-trump-opponents/) is back at Breitbart News after it was announced Friday that he was leaving his role in President Trump’s administration. Bannon returned to his old position of [executive chairman,](http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/08/18/populist-hero-stephen-k-bannon-returns-home-breitbart/) the news organization said, calling the former Goldman Sachs Vice President a “populist hero.” “The populist-nationalist movement got a lot stronger today,” Breitbart News editor in chief Alex Marlow said in a statement. “Breitbart gained an executive chairman with his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda.” The anti-globalist who tried to position himself in the White House as a [disruptive force](http://time.com/4907333/steve-bannon-fired-trump-analysis/?xid=homepage) returned for Breitbart’s evening editorial meeting on Friday, a reporter for the website tweeted. > [](https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/898666290956709888) Following his ouster from the White House, Bannon said he will be [“going to war”](http://time.com/4907499/steve-bannon-war-donald-trump-opponents/) for Trump. “If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents — on Capitol Hill, in the media and in corporate America,” he said. But hours later, [he told the _Weekly Standard_](http://www.weeklystandard.com/bannon-the-trump-presidency-that-we-fought-for-and-won-is-over./article/2009355#.WZdoMDO-RME.twitter) that “the Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over.” “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency,” he continued.” But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. 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