But they may not be able to.
This follows numerous stories that there's infighting between Bannon and Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Whether he acts on it remains to be seen.
On whether Trump will make changes, Ruddy said he wasn't privy to internal discussion but noted, "Donald Trump has a history of ignoring what everyone says or thinks and keeping people he likes for a long period of time". He has a high tolerance for chaos, and a unique gift for creating it - and, despite his famous "You're fired!" tagline from the show "The Apprentice", an aversion to dismissing people.
She was one of only a few senior aides not present at this week's summit with the Chinese president at Trump's Florida estate.
There was the first visit to U.S. of China's President Xi Jinping, the confirmation vote for a Supreme Court justice, and the bombing of Syria among other major stories during the week.
"The only thing we are shaking up is the way Washington operates as we push the President's aggressive agenda forward", spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said Friday. Although some reports said that he threw a hissy fit at being sidelined and threatened to quit, he was persuaded to stay and fight by his purported mentors, the billionaire Mercer family, whose father-daughter duo has bankrolled Trump on Bannon's calling after initially backing Ted Cruz in the Republican nomination race.
President Trump is considering replacing chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Stephen Bannon, according to several reports.
Vladimir Putin says US-Russia ties worse since Donald Trump took office
But Tillerson's claim is one President Barack Obama, too, argued for years, only to see Assad outlast his own term in office. A fact-finding mission from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is investigating the attack.
With that revelation also comes the fear that Steve Bannon's removal from Donald Trump's team could also result in a whole lot of bad press for the president.
The Trump White House has been a hotbed of palace intrigue since he took office on January 20. And one of them happens to be Bannon.
Bannon preferred for the president to hash out the details of Trumpcare with the House Freedom Caucus, the libertarian extremists who were content to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement. While foreign policy experts cautioned that move alone wasn't enough to assume Bannon's role was diminished, given his continued access to the President, the rumor mill that has Bannon on the outs kicked into overdrive over the past 48 hours.
Former Trump advisors telling Reuters that Kushner is trying to tug the president into a more mainstream position, while Bannon is trying to keep aflame the nationalist fervor that carried Trump to victory.
In the middle is Mr. Trump himself, seemingly torn between the two factions, tilting one way or the other depending on the day, or even the hour, while he seeks to recapture momentum after a series of defeats in Congress and the courts.
White House aides told The New York Times that the president hoped this weekend's Mar-a-Lago meeting would help smooth tensions.
The stories about infighting "probably bother him some", Gingrich said. I don't think somebody like that belongs in the White House and I can't imagine why Trump put him in there in the first place.
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