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My Take
I'll be honest: Steve Bannon is one of the figures I find hardest to write about neutrally, and that difficulty is exactly why he matters. Whatever you think of his politics, and I disagree with plenty of it, his instinct for where media power actually lives is undeniable. He moved from finance to film to Breitbart to the White House to a daily podcast, always positioning himself at the loudest microphone available. I read him less as an ideologue than as a strategist who treats attention as currency. Studying his trajectory tells you a great deal about how modern politics is actually fought.
Overview
Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American media executive, Republican political strategist, pundit and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of President Donald Trump's first administration before Trump fired him. He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News. Since 2019, Bannon has hosted the War Room podcast.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Steve Bannon
- Name (Japanese)
- スティーブン・バノン
- Reading
- すてぃーぶん・ばのん
- Born
- November 27, 1953 (age 72)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Snake
- Origin
- Virginia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film producer / film director / publicist / political adviser / strategist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Benedictine High School
- University
- Harvard University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Breitbart News | — | |
| Notable work | War Room | — | |
| Notable work | The Movement | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.