Bannon, the bomb-thrower who took his anti-globalist worldview from fringe documentaries to Breitbart News and finally to the White House, outlasted former RNC chairman and chief of staff Reince Priebus. But he made it less than a month in the new order instilled under Kelly.
Kelly didn't understand what Bannon did, why he had a PR portfolio, why he seemed to cause so much trouble with colleagues and why he was so widely disliked. He asked many questions about Bannon in his early days at the White House and found widespread disdain.
"No one liked him, senior White House official said. "People didn't know what he did other than stab his colleagues in the back."
Speaking on Bannon's position in the Kelly era earlier this week, Trump ally and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an interview: "I think that depends on how well Mr. Bannon learns how to salute."