But Kushner, Trump's loyal son-in-law, is getting all the prime White House assignments these days, as well as central seating in the president's National Security briefing on Thursday's US military air strikes against a Syrian air field.
A White House source told The Huffington Post on Friday that 'Gary Cohn would be the top pick for chief of staff'.
Many grassroots activists who supported President Trump through last year's election share the same belief.
It's safe to say that if Donald Trump is asked to choose between Steve Bannon and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, we all know how it will end.
Axios on Friday reported Trump was mulling replacements for Priebus, including incumbent House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). "The only thing we are shaking up is the way Washington operates as we push the President's aggressive agenda forward", she said.
Appearing on MSNBC's AM Joy with host Joy Reid, former Breitbart executive Kurt Bardella said the poor reaction from the conservative "Bannonite wing" of the party to the Syria attack was a sign they fear their man is losing his influence in the White House.
Since then, Trump has faced a number of setbacks to his young administration, including having an executive order on immigration blocked a second time by the courts, and failing to pass legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare.
British woman stabbed to death in Jerusalem
A Palestinian man fatally stabbed a British student on Jerusalem's transit network yesterday, Israeli police said. Israel says at least 162 of the Palestinians killed had launched stabbing, shooting or vehicle ramming attacks.
Bannon and Kushner sat down to bury the hatchet this week in Mar-a-Lago, Politico reports, but it is unclear what came of the meeting. He's channeled the populist and nationalist sentiment that propelled Trump's campaign, and his placement on the National Security Council committee was criticized by some members of Congress and Washington's foreign policy establishment, who said it risked politicizing the security advice provided to the president.
Wednesday, Trump spoke of seeing photographs of "innocent people, including women, small children and even handsome little babies", who had died from the gas attack.
Finally, Mr. Bannon identified why they could not compromise, according to someone with knowledge of the conversation.
Kushner was seated next to Jinping's wife-two seats down from Trump himself-while Bannon was seated further down, "sandwiched between two Chinese officials". On the other are Mr. Kushner's "Democrats", an appellation used to describe even Republicans who want to soften Mr. Trump's rough edges and broaden his narrow popular appeal after months of historically low poll numbers.
One Trump aide, who sits on the Kushner side of the divide, bluntly acknowledged this tension and said it could be a reason for the President to not throw Bannon overboard for fear of what he may do to the presidency he helped build.
Kushner, who played a major role in the presidential campaign, is heading an effort to overhaul the federal government and has traveled to Iraq with the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman.
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