Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are having a big ol fight today.
Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are having a big 'ol fight over a book. Getty Images

Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury, has touched off a wild, statement-heavy feud between the President of the United States and his former aide, Steve Bannon.

Let's recap the last few hours.

The Guardian:

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book seen by the Guardian.

Statement from the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump:

Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.

It continues:

Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans.

Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.

From a story about Wolff's book in the Washington Post:

Ivanka sometimes made fun of her father's hair, in private.

Statement from the White House Press Secretary, Sarah Sanders:

This book is filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House.

Participating in a book that can only be described as trashy tabloid fiction exposes their sad desperate attempts at relevancy.

From excerpts of Wolff's book published in New York Magazine:

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night, when the unexpected trend — Trump might actually win — seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears—and not of joy.

Statement from Stephanie Grisham, Communications Director for First Lady Melania Trump:

The book is clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section. Mrs. Trump supported her husband's decision to run for President and in fact, encouraged him to do so. She was confident he would win and was very happy when he did.

From the HuffingtonPost's piece on the Wolff book:

“This is all about money laundering,” Bannon told Wolff. “Mueller chose [senior prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to fucking Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr and Jared Kushner … It’s as plain as a hair on your face... They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV."

And the day is still young...