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Trump was warned by Steve Bannon about coronavirus in January

In early President Donald days, then-White House strategist Steve Bannon took over like a jug of Lysol. His mantra? Clean, vacuum, disinfect the swamp. In quick time, however, Bannon soon mounted up and rode off into the sunset. He and DJT still communicate. He informed the president — in January — about this killer virus. …

In early President Donald days, then-White House strategist Steve Bannon took over like a jug of Lysol. His mantra? Clean, vacuum, disinfect the swamp. In quick time, however, Bannon soon mounted up and rode off into the sunset.

He and DJT still communicate. He informed the president — in January — about this killer virus.

A) He knows China. B) Spent time in Wuhan. C) Has key sources. D) Recognized its government was concealing illness figures. E) No carbon was being produced. F) NASA satellite photos showed China’s industrial shutdown.

Bannon began shortwave radio podcast War Room — Pandemic — which the Web site translates into Mandarin and Cantonese. It’s broadcast on international radio networks, online at WarRoom.org, 11 a.m. daily on YouTube — 3.8 million daily downloads, 250 million listeners worldwide.

Fearing the entire system could come down, alarmed Chinese specialists, medical and financial, contacted him early. Medicines, computers, cellphone parts, much comes out of China. Talk began of starting some form of supply chain.

Queen of King Street

Shove beer. Booze is booming. Goldie Hawn’s kid Kate Hudson — who was last seen wearing rubber gloves, stocking up at an LA grocery store with her man Danny Fujikawa this weekend — is now making vodka. She says: “Vodkas weren’t made by women. So I decided to make my own. The stuff’s called King St.” (Why not Queen St.?) “It’s GMO-free corn, alkaline water. It’s healthy. There’s vanilla, it’s gluten-free, and if you don’t like it, you can always pour it on your hands.”

Suds or duds?

St. Pat’s Day. Everyone’s avoiding corona. Including the same-named beer.

“People wouldn’t even drink Corona from the bottle,” said Sag Harbor’s K Pasa chef David Hart. “We said, have three tacos, and we’ll give you a Corona.”

Forget it. You’re supposed to drink fluids, but (even though we all know the name is only a coincidence) — not even their neighborhood cat would lick those suds.

Odds & ends

From repetitive washing, my hands have begun cracking. They look like they have athlete’s foot … Neiman’s shut approximately 150 outlets — their close-out Net-a-Porter places — overnight. Saving money. Not paying electrical … Saturday 5 p.m. to 4 a.m., the huge money-generating Copa took in $180.

Jesse Watters of Fox News, the only voice to preach calm, said Saturday: “Cool it. We’ll survive. Be OK.” I never met him, but I’m grateful to him.

Virtual om

In our current crisis, even Transcendental Meditation stopped transcending to a group. Advocates include Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, Russell Brand, Howie Mandel. Public meditations are now canceled. Guru Bob Roth added phone-in sessions Saturday, Sunday, 9 a.m. and noon, Wednesdays, 6:30 a.m. Dial in, hear his mantra, then sit silently for 20 minutes.

A caller you can call in troubled times? It’s a calling.

East End times

So how are they coping in the boonies? The East End is eating in. Donna Karan’s former chefs now deliver.

Being the Hamptons, their portions are delivered by Porsches.

And in Jericho’s oldest venue, Milleridge Inn Cottage, founded 1672, where Bernie Sanders had his prom — and probably danced the minuet — they’re now calming bridezillas — who are suddenly changing dates or lowering a guest list — by moving their place’s tables 10 feet apart.


Might what’s left of the Democratic party at least tie up Bernie’s loose right hand, which he keeps flailing? And if Biden wins — just saying — if Biden wins — the question all America must ask itself is: At Grampa Biden’s first State Dinner, will he serve prunes?

Asked by foodies only in New York, kids, only in New York.

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