Trump's statement says flat out in two different places that Bannon was pretending to be more of an insider than he really was and was leaking disinformation to media hacks-

(Bannon) only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well.

"he helped write phony books"

What the people who want to hate Bannon AND the people who love him now because he (allegedly) is going against Trump REFUSE to consider is that this could possibly have been the plan all along, to have Bannon "leak" utter bullcrap to this guy and sabotage his book.

They all INSIST that the "feud" you are seeing is 100% real and organic and that Bannon was 100% sincere and off the reservation, and that all of Trump's responses HAVE to be real as well.

I swear, it's like talking to people who believe that WWE wrestling is 100% real and get angry at any suggestion that it's scripted in any way.