Bannon: Every day of Trump term will be 'day of thunder'

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon said that every day of President Trump’s term will be a “day of thunder.”

“His four years, I think every day’s [going to] be day of thunder,” Bannon said.

The president “understands how close he came to political oblivion, and I think he also understands that this’ll be remembered as the age of Trump,” Bannon added later.

The Wall Street Journal video featuring the comments from Bannon follows a chaotic first few weeks of Trump’s second term. In those first weeks, Trump has issued a blitz of executive orders, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have taken action on the federal government that has rattled Washington, and the president floated a proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza.

“He'll be at the level of General Washington and Lincoln and then Trump, of turning around … the country, I think he's stepping into the moment,” Bannon said.

Democrats have recently fumed over the early response of their party’s leadership to Trump. Strategists have said the reaction to the president has been not consistent and not intense enough to fight Trump, who has taken multiple actions to remake the government.

“Democratic leadership acts like it’s permanently 2006, a year when, yes, we took back the Senate, but also before the Republican Party found a cult leader and lost its collective minds,” Christy Setzer, a Democratic strategist, previously said.

“We don’t live in that world anymore; we have a lifelong conman and convicted felon in the Oval Office who tries every day to turn this country into a dictatorship. Let’s start acting like it,” Setzer added.

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