In a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO’s White House bureau chief Dasha Burns on Tuesday, the former Trump strategist and War Room podcast host taunted Elon Musk, predicted a much tighter ship at the White House and spoke about what his upcoming fraud trial might mean for his impact in Trump world. Here are our top takeaways.

As Trump’s big-tent GOP returns to power, Bannon and Musk have served as a prime example of the infighting already underway.

Trump’s former White House strategist fires latest volley in MAGA civil war as he compares tech titans to Imperial Japan’s generals giving their unconditional surrender

The party is united in personal loyalty to the president-elect, but it is now made up of multiple groups with very different agendas

He's at the apex of power now. Every month that goes by, he has a little bit less.” Click here to order your copy of this issue If you want to know how a candidate will govern, the clues are often in how they campaigned.

The first thing to know about the Department of Government Efficiency is that it doesn’t exist.

The weekend’s pre-inaugural balls and parties reflected the exuberance of an ascendant MAGA movement—and the factional dissent already emerging.

U.S. Vice President-elect former Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrive to inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Credit - Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images

Steve Bannon, a former Trump aide and icon of the Make America Great Again movement, regularly rents out Butterworth’s for parties. A former co-host of Bannon’s show, Raheem Kassam, is an investor in the restaurant who is often hanging out behind the host stand with a Guinness or fretting over a cupboard that won’t stay closed.

When the New Yorker magazine released their official Inauguration Day cover last week, US President-elect Donald Trump is only partly visible via a dash of his yellow-ish hair and his ubiquitous red tie.

When the New Yorker magazine released their official Inauguration Day cover last week, US President-elect Donald Trump is only partly visible via a dash of his yellow-ish hair and his ubiquitous red tie.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Elon Musk was being “falsely smeared” over a viral video of the Tesla CEO performing what many have said was a Nazi salute during a rally for President Trump’s inauguration.