Stephen Hayes was on Fox News this morning discussing the new Breitbart takeover of the Trump campaign and he summarizes it brilliantly:
I think this is a campaign that’s deeply conflicted inside and that reflects the internal conflicts of the man at the top of the campaign. I guess I would argue that it would be a mistake to read too much into Donald Trump reading a teleprompter speech and assume that this is a new person. He’s been telling us all along he doesn’t want to change, he’s more comfortable with who he is, that he’s rejecting advice from people who are telling him to be more presidential, and I think that’s what this is. This is really more of a validation of Donald Trump and his sort-of gut instincts on how to run a campaign.
If you followed Breitbart or read the site over the past year, it’s basically created this alternate reality where Donald Trump is the best and everything he does is amazing and the people who oppose him are either idiots or traitors. It’s really this sort of fantasy world where Donald Trump is king and only he can fix the problems that are facing the country.
I think he likes that. I think he wants that kind of validation. I think it’s one of the reasons that he sought to bring on Stephen Bannon at the top of his campaign.
Trump has always been very black and white when it comes to his friends and enemies. If you love him and say wonderful things about him then he loves you back. But if you criticize him you are biased against him and are a traitor.
So it really makes sense that he would appoint Steve Bannon as his new CEO, since Breitbart is the Trump fantasy-news network.