Bannon, Scarborough trade attacks

Chief White House strategist Steve Bannon and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough are taking shots at each other as the White House’s war on the media gets personal. 

Bannon singled out Scarborough in an interview published Tuesday as part of the media that he sees as the “opposition party.”

“I’m very sorry that the mainstream media does not like President Trump’s agenda,” Bannon told Bloomberg. “But they are going to have to embrace the fact that they, as the opposition party, who tried to destroy Donald Trump as a candidate, lost.”

“When Joe Scarborough and the mainstream media attack Stephen Miller, it’s just like any opposition party,” he added. 

{mosads}”They’ll try to take out some of the best young people in any organization. Stephen is a tough guy, I can tell you from the campaign. He’s used to being absolutely vilified.”

Scarborough shot back in the same Bloomberg article.

Bannon and Miller are “opposition party hacks [who] humiliate themselves by being so ignorant of American history and the Constitution that they declare in their big-boy voices that the president’s powers are not to be questioned,” the “Morning Joe” co-host said. 

Scarborough has repeatedly criticized Miller on air, referring to him as “Little Napoleon” and saying the 31-year-old Trump adviser “looks like he just got out of shop class in 11th grade and he went down to the principal’s office where they had a closed-circuit TV set.”

Miller has emerged as a key adviser for the president and has been doing more interviews on behalf of the White House as a result. 

“I’m prepared to go on any show, anywhere, anytime, and repeat it, and say the president of the United States is correct,” Miller told Bloomberg. “One. Hundred. Percent.”