--- title: Steve Bannon 'Going to War' Against Trump's Opponents description: Stephen Bannon said in his first public remarks since leaving the White House that he will be “going to war” for President Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/4907499/steve-bannon-war-donald-trump-opponents/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-18T21:34:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:04:28.752Z article:section: Politics og:title: Steve Bannon: I'm 'Going to War' Against President Trump's Opponents og:description: He made the statement in his first public remarks since leaving the White House og:url: https://time.com/4907499/steve-bannon-war-donald-trump-opponents/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec424629f573f9bf/6988da567cdbac12b9d59a99/steve-bannon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Nikki Haley Sworn In As United Nations Ambassador og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Steve Bannon: I'm 'Going to War' Against President Trump's Opponents twitter:description: He made the statement in his first public remarks since leaving the White House twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec424629f573f9bf/6988da567cdbac12b9d59a99/steve-bannon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Steve Bannon: I'm 'Going to War' Against President Trump's Opponents by [Joshua Green / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Joshua Green / Bloomberg Contributor Aug 18, 2017 9:34 PM UTC  Steve Bannon, Former Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to U.S. President Donald Trump in January, 2017 in Washington, DC. Steve Bannon, Former Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to U.S. President Donald Trump in January, 2017 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee—Getty Images by [Joshua Green / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Joshua Green / Bloomberg Contributor Aug 18, 2017 9:34 PM UTC Stephen Bannon said in his first public remarks since his ouster from the White House that he will be “going to war” for President Donald 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,” Bannon said Friday in an interview hours after his departure was announced by the administration. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4907499/steve-bannon-war-donald-trump-opponents/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4907499/steve-bannon-war-donald-trump-opponents/"},"headline":"Steve Bannon: I'm 'Going to War' Against President Trump's Opponents","datePublished":"2017-08-18T21:34:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:04:28.752Z","description":"He made the statement in his first public remarks since leaving the White House","url":"https://time.com/4907499/steve-bannon-war-donald-trump-opponents/","keywords":["White House","Bloomberg","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec424629f573f9bf/6988da567cdbac12b9d59a99/steve-bannon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joshua Green / Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec424629f573f9bf/6988da567cdbac12b9d59a99/steve-bannon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nikki Haley Sworn In As United Nations Ambassador","caption":"Nikki Haley Sworn In As United Nations Ambassador","creditText":"Win McNamee—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4907499/steve-bannon-war-donald-trump-opponents/","name":"Steve Bannon: I'm 'Going to War' Against President Trump's Opponents"}}]}] ```