Stephen Bannon's war against Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump was so nasty that at one Oval Office meeting intended to clear the air, President Trump's daughter reportedly cursed out the then-chief strategist. "The railhead of all bad decisions is the same railhead," Bannon vented to Vanity Fair. "Javanka."
Although Bannon reserves a special loathing for Kushner — he claims he told Trump's son-in-law that "we make a lot of bad decisions, and the bad decisions have to do with you" — Bannon also harbors a dislike of the eldest Trump daughter. "Ivanka was a fount of bad advice during the campaign," Bannon claimed.
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