text: How the Internet reacted to Steve Bannon's growing power in the White House 
   
   CLOSE The hashtag #StopPresidentBannon hit the top of Twitter's U.S. trending chart as thousands sought to protest President Trump's chief strategist. Time 
   
   Twitter is demanding the nation #StopPresidentBannon. 
   
   As confusion and anger swirled over President Trump's executive order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, the president signed another order giving chief strategist Steve Bannon a seat on the National Security Council. 
   
   The #StopPresidentBannon hashtag exploded Sunday as users deplored the ex-Breitbart News chief's increased influence in the White House. Bannon — who was considered a controversial choice for chief strategist because of Breitbart's tendency to share views many perceive as racist, sexist and anti-Semitic — can now regularly attend meetings that deal with policy issues affecting national security. 
   
   What Twitter is saying: 
   
   Since when does the Breitbart guy know more about national security than the Joint Chiefs and the CIA? Never! #StopPresidentBannon — Ed Turner (@papabear7533) January 29, 2017 
   
   I wouldn't trust Steve Bannon to run the Tilt-A-Whirl, let alone the country I live in and love. #StopPresidentBannon — John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) January 29, 2017 
   
   We know who's really in charge. Trump is an illegitimate president who's also letting a Nazi run the country.#StopPresidentBannon — blackpridebrownlove (@KaylinWinters2) January 29, 2017 
   
   Steve Bannon's influence on Trump is America's greatest threat to national security. But we haven't lost yet. Let's #StopPresidentBannon! pic.twitter.com/UEspca1edf — #NotMyPresident (@France4Hillary) January 29, 2017 
   
   People voted for a man who they thought was good businessman and ended up a w/ puppet controlled by white nationalist #StopPresidentBannon — akash chittari (@sanju_akas) January 29, 2017 
   
   Without immigration Trump would have no wives. #MuslimBan#StopPresidentBannon — Matthew Kick (@MatthewKick) January 29, 2017 
   
   Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2jL27GM ||||| WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Sunday said the addition of President Donald Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, to regular meetings of the country's top national security officials was essential to the commander in chief's decision-making process. 
   
   Trump took steps Saturday to begin restructuring the White House National Security Council, adding the senior adviser to the principals committee, which includes the secretaries of state and defense. At the same time, Trump said his director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would attend "where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed." 
   
   Bannon served in the Navy before attending Harvard Business School, working at Goldman Sachs, starting his own media-focused boutique investment banking firm and later heading the ultraconservative outlet Breitbart News. 
   
   "He is a former naval officer. He's got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape that we have now," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told ABC's "This Week." 
   
   Spicer said "having the chief strategist for the president in those meetings who has a significant military background to help make — guide what the president's final analysis is going to be is crucial." 
   
   But to Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, the NSC "sadly has some really questionable people on it," he told NBC's "Meet the Press," citing Bannon among them. 
   
   Breitbart has been condemned for featuring racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content.
target: – Amid President Trump's flurry of actions Saturday was some restructuring at the National Security Council. White House chief strategist Steve Bannon now has a permanent seat on the principals committee of the NSC, reports the Washington Post, which notes that "the changes affirm the ascent of Bannon" in giving a political adviser a seat at the military table. At the same time, Trump ordered that the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former members of the principals committee, would be invited only when "issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed." The move is contrary to former President George W. Bush, reports CBS News, who banned Karl Rove from interactions with the NSC; former President Obama, however, occasionally sent David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs to NSC meetings. Bannon, however, "is a former naval officer. He's got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape that we have now," says press secretary Sean Spicer, per the AP. Meanwhile, USA Today notes that the shakeup started #StopPresidentBannon trending. (Bannon had some succinct advice for the media on Saturday.)