TIME Magazine Asia | February 13, 2017
THE GREAT MANIPULATOR: STEVE BANNON, CHIEF WHITEHOUSE STRATEGIST
Donald Trump’s first steps had the feel of a documentary film made by his chief
strategist and alter ego Stephen K. Bannon, a director who deploys ravenous sharks, shrieking tornadoes and mushroom clouds as reliably as John Ford shot Monument Valley. Act I of the Trump presidency has been filled with disruption, as promised by Trump and programmed by Bannon, with plenty of resistance in reply, from both inside and outside the government. Perhaps this should not be surprising. Trump told America many times in 2016 that his would be no ordinary Administration. Having launched his campaign as a can-do chief executive, he came to see himself as the leader of a movement and no movement is complete without its commissar. Bannon
is the one who keeps the doctrine pure, the true believer, who is in it not for money or position, but to change history.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in TIME Magazine Asia February 13, 2017.