--- title: Donald Trump to Steve Bannon: Thanks for the Service description: President Donald Trump tweeted thanks to his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, following his firing from the role on Friday canonical: https://time.com/4907778/donald-trump-thanks-steve-bannon-crooked-hillary/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-19T16:12:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T04:33:06.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Thanks Bannon for His Service og:description: It was Trump's first public comment on Bannon's firing og:url: https://time.com/4907778/donald-trump-thanks-steve-bannon-crooked-hillary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31d29c6e35036520/6988da570a4a22d07d9cf89c/steve-bannon-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-STAFF og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Thanks Bannon for His Service twitter:description: It was Trump's first public comment on Bannon's firing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31d29c6e35036520/6988da570a4a22d07d9cf89c/steve-bannon-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Thanks Steve Bannon for His Service in Campaign Against 'Crooked Hillary' > Sponsored content. 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Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:33 AM UTCPublished: Aug 19, 2017 4:12 PM UTC President Donald Trump tweeted thanks to his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, following his [firing from the role on Friday.](http://time.com/4906897/steve-bannon-leaving-white-house-donald-trump/) “I want to thank Steve Bannon for his service,” Trump said. “He came to the campaign during my run against Crooked Hillary Clinton – it was great! Thanks S.” Rumors had been circling in [recent weeks](http://time.com/4907060/steve-bannon-donald-trump-timeline/) that Bannon was 0n his way out, as several of Trump’s top advisers, including newly-appointed chief of staff General John Kelly, urged the President to cut ties with the controversial political figure. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/898870621584596993) Trump’s tweet was first public comment on Bannon’s ousting, which he teased earlier in the week. “We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon,” the President said at a Tuesday press conference where he addressed last weekend’s violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Bannon revealed to the [_Weekly Standard_ ](http://www.weeklystandard.com/bannon-the-trump-presidency-that-we-fought-for-and-won-is-over./article/2009355)following his departure that he will resume his duty as executive chairman of right-wing news website Breitbart, where he said he would “crush the opposition.” “The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” Bannon said in the interview. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. “There’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but _that_ presidency is over,” he added. [Trump later tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/898964640817983488) that Bannon would be “a tough and smart new voice” at Breitbart and that “fake news needs the competition.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4907778/donald-trump-thanks-steve-bannon-crooked-hillary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4907778/donald-trump-thanks-steve-bannon-crooked-hillary/"},"headline":"President Trump Thanks Steve Bannon for His Service in Campaign Against 'Crooked Hillary'","datePublished":"2017-08-19T16:12:18.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T04:33:06.000Z","description":"It was Trump's first public comment on Bannon's firing","url":"https://time.com/4907778/donald-trump-thanks-steve-bannon-crooked-hillary/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31d29c6e35036520/6988da570a4a22d07d9cf89c/steve-bannon-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31d29c6e35036520/6988da570a4a22d07d9cf89c/steve-bannon-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-STAFF","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-STAFF","creditText":"Mandel Ngan—AFP/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/4907778/donald-trump-thanks-steve-bannon-crooked-hillary/","name":"President Trump Thanks Steve Bannon for His Service in Campaign Against 'Crooked Hillary'"}}]}] ```