Q is Steven Bannon.

Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Was a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon.

Bannon's job at the Pentagon was, among other things, >handling messages between senior officers and writing reports about the state of the Navy fleet worldwide.

Several days after Donald Trump's inauguration, Bannon told an American newspaper, "The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while. >"I want you to quote this: the media here is the opposition party."

At the end of January 2017, in a departure from the previous format of the National Security Council (NSC), the holder of Bannon's position, along with that of the Chief of Staff, were designated by presidential memorandum as regular attendees to the NSC's Principals Committee, a Cabinet-level senior inter-agency forum for considering national security issues.

It was reported that the Trump administration >retroactively granted Bannon a blanket exemption from federal ethics rules that allowed him to communicate with editors at Breitbart News.

The Washington Post reported in October 2017 that >Trump and Bannon remained in regular contact.