[ti:Who Is Top Trump Adviser Steve Bannon?+++川普高级顾问史蒂夫·班农] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.16]President Donald Trump's chief political strategist, Steve Bannon, [00:05.60]has received much media attention since starting his job at the White House. [00:13.20]Last week, Trump reorganized his National Security Council [00:19.12]to give Bannon a seat on its "principals committee." [00:25.00]Lawmakers and former administration officials criticized the move. [00:31.92]They said Bannon should focus on his role as political adviser [00:38.60]instead of attending meetings with national security and military officials. [00:47.80]Bannon also recently spoke out against the U.S. news media [00:53.84]in an interview with the New York Times. [00:57.44]He said, "the media here is the opposition party. [01:04.04]He added that he believes that news organizations had been [01:09.84]"humiliated" by the 2016 presidential election result. [01:16.96]"They don't understand this country. [01:20.16]They still do not understand why Donald Trump [01:24.88]is the president of the United States," Bannon said. [01:30.40]He was not immediately available for an interview with VOA. [01:37.72]Bannon was born in November 1953 to working-class parents in Norfolk, Virginia. [01:48.44]He once described growing up in "a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, [01:55.08]pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats." [02:01.20]His father, a telephone worker, was badly affected by the 2008 economic crisis. [02:10.96]Bannon himself has criticized bankers and traders [02:16.52]who were not punished for their role in starting the worst financial crisis [02:23.24]since the Great Depression of the 1930s. [02:29.12]Bannon studied urban affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. [02:35.48]According to the Boston Globe newspaper, [02:38.96]Bannon returned home to Richmond, Virginia, [02:43.40]during the summer to work in a local junkyard. [02:48.57]He went on to earn a graduate degree from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., [02:57.08]and later a master's in Business Administration from Harvard University. [03:05.60]Bannon served for seven years in the U.S. Navy aboard ships. [03:12.00]He also served on a guided missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf. [03:18.64]Later, he was a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon. [03:27.56]After his military service, Bannon went to work for investment bank Goldman Sachs. [03:35.96]He later started his own investment company. [03:40.20]He also produced films in Hollywood. [03:44.04]Bannon produced more than a dozen movies during the 1990s. [03:50.88]During that time, he made a deal that gave him a piece of ownership of several television shows. [04:00.24]One of them was the hit show "Seinfeld," [04:04.44]which ended up making him millions of dollars. [04:09.84]Before joining Trump's campaign, [04:12.72]Bannon served as executive chairman of Breitbart News, a conservative news site. [04:21.92]He took over the site after founder Andrew Breitbart died in 2012. [04:30.08]Bannon has described the news site as a "platform" [04:35.36]for what has been called the Alternative Right, or "alt-right." [04:42.32]The alt-right is a far-right movement that [04:46.72]publicizes – largely on the Internet – extreme conservative ideas. [04:55.00]Under Bannon's leadership, the website published stories [04:59.92]supporting nationalist, anti-establishment positions. [05:06.12]It also published many stories in support of Trump [05:11.08]and others critical of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate. [05:18.80]Breitbart News has been criticized for publishing stories with racist and sexist ideas. [05:29.16]One headline asked, "Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?" [05:38.72]Bannon left Breitbart News in 2016 [05:43.36]to work as a senior member of Trump's presidential campaign. [05:49.36]He said he has had nothing to do with Breitbart since then. [05:56.40]I'm Anne Ball. [05:58.24]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM