--- title: Daily Show's Trevor Noah Plays "Who Is the Real President?" description: Trevor Noah plays "Who Is the Real President?" on The Daily Show and it's not Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4662504/trevor-noah-on-steve-bannon/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-07T17:26:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:52.945Z og:title: Trevor Noah to Steve Bannon: 'You Are the Real President' og:description: The late night host tries to prove that Bannon has the most power of anyone og:url: https://time.com/4662504/trevor-noah-on-steve-bannon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trevor Noah to Steve Bannon: 'You Are the Real President' twitter:description: The late night host tries to prove that Bannon has the most power of anyone twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Trevor Noah to Steve Bannon 'You Are the Real President' by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 7, 2017 5:26 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 7, 2017 5:26 PM UTC When _The Daily Show_ host Trevor Noah played a game of “[Who Is the Real President?](http://time.com/4569588/donald-trump-stephen-bannon-breitbart-white-house/?iid=sr-link6)” on Monday night, President Donald Trump came in fifth. While Trump may be in the highest office, the late night host argued that there are a lot of people in the White House with more power than him, including Vladimir Putin, Fox News and an Ivanka Trump-Jared Kushner hybrid that Noah jokingly dubbed as “Jarvanka” (which he notes is “also the name of an Ikea chair.”) The number one position, though, was reserved for Trump’s chief strategist [Steve Bannon](http://time.com/4657665/steve-bannon-donald-trump/?iid=sr-link1). As he referenced [TIME’s most current cover story on the chief strategist’s forceful presence](http://time.com/4657665/steve-bannon-donald-trump/), Noah posed a theory. While Trump may have signed the recent executive order authorizing the temporary travel ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, the ban itself bears [Bannon’s name](http://time.com/4659390/howe-strauss-steve-bannon/?iid=sr-link3), which for Noah is all the proof needed of [Bannon’s power](http://time.com/4652785/steve-bannon-stoppresidentbannon-twitter-donald-trump/?iid=sr-link4). “It was Bannon’s baby, which shouldn’t surprise anyone,” Noah said. “ It’s in his name, people. ‘Ban-non.’ ‘Ban-on-Muslims.’ Open your eyes, people!” “As of this moment, you are the real president,” he said. “The American people didn’t elect you. But then again, they kind of didn’t elect Trump either.” Watch below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4662504/trevor-noah-on-steve-bannon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4662504/trevor-noah-on-steve-bannon/"},"headline":"Trevor Noah to Steve Bannon 'You Are the Real President'","datePublished":"2017-02-07T17:26:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:52.945Z","description":"Trevor Noah plays \"Who Is the Real President?\" on The Daily Show and it's not Donald Trump","url":"https://time.com/4662504/trevor-noah-on-steve-bannon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Daily Show","Donald Trump","trevor noah","steve bannon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4662504/trevor-noah-on-steve-bannon/","name":"Trevor Noah to Steve Bannon 'You Are the Real President'"}}]}] ```