Good lord, Hollywood divorces aren't anywhere near as nasty as Donald Trump's break-up with his former right hand Steve Bannon.  Trump's attorney sent a cease and desist order to Bannon, demanding he refrain from making disparaging comments against the president and his family.

This comes at the end of a breakneck day in which excerpts from a new tell-all book "Fire and Fury" from journalist Michael Wolff revealed bizarre behavior and quotes from everyone in and out of the Trump Administration saying terrible things about each other.  Seriously, they all appear to deeply and virulently hate each other.  Cabinet secretaries loathe advisors, the generals abhor Trump's family, everyone hates son-in-law Jared Kushner.

But by far, the biggest bombshells came from quotes from Steve Bannon, the far right-wing propagandist with links to white nationalism who guided Trump into the White House during the campaign and stayed on as Chief Strategist.  Bannon not only called first daughter Ivanka Trump "dumb as a brick", but he labelled as "treason" Donald Junior's 2016 campaign meetings with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton, and said there was no way the Trump himself didn't know his campaign was colluding with the Russians.  Tipping another hand, Bannon said the special prosecutor investigation into Trump's campaign is focusing on "money laundering".

The White House was clearly not expecting this sort of candor coming from the guy who wrangled neo-nazis, nationalists, and other crazies into goose stepping behind the orange clown as he made ugly and bigoted remarks about the disabled, Latinos, Women, Blacks, and pretty much every other carbon-based bi-ped that isn't a wealthy white male.  And Trump's venom ran white hot.

"Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency," Trump said in a statement.  "When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.  Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party," he ranted on, "Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn't as easy as I make it look.  Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country.  Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans.  Steve doesn't represent my base - he's only in it for himself."

Funny, when Bannon "resigned" from the White House last August, Trump defended him:  "He's a good man.  He is not a racist.  I can tell you that.  He's a good person," Trump said at the time, "And I like him."

Not so much today.

Late in the day, the Washington Post reported that billionaire Rebekeh Mercer - who finances far right activity in the US - tired of Bannon's antics and would no longer fund his future endeavors. 

Bannon had already alienated most of the Republican party for backing extreme right-winger Judge Roy Moore - an accused pedophile who was twice thrown off of the Alabama state supreme court for violating the US Constitution - in a special by-election for Alabama's senate seat.  Moore lost and Doug Jones on Wednesday became the first Democrat in 25 years to be sworn in to hold that once safely-Republican office.