Even after leaving the White House in August 2017, it was widely reported that former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon would continue to wield influence over the president through the far-right website Breitbart News. Bannon co-founded the site, and served as its executive chairman.
However, when it was revealed that Bannon had made disparaging remarks about Trump in the book "Fire and Fury," he was ousted from Breitbart in January 2018. Reports indicated that Rebekah Mercer, a right wing donor and longtime Breitbart supporter, had forced him out.
According to a February 2018 GQ profile, Bannon is currently "holed up" in the townhouse that was once Breitbart's Capitol Hill location, studying the Time's Up movement, mulling over US relations with China, Iran, and Turkey, and planning to launch a new political group focused on "the weaponizing of ideas."