*WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump is landing into more troubles witheach passing day.*

*The latest inline is the ananymous OpEd written in the New York Timeswhich has exposed the Trump administration inner rift.*

*Donald Trump is facing a “coup”, former White House chief strategist SteveBannon has said.*

“What you saw the other day was as serious as it can get. This is a directattack on the institutions,” Bannon said during a flying visit to Italy.“This is a coup, okay”.

The column was published on Wednesday and was written by an unnamed senioradministration official, the New York Times said.

The writer slammed Trump’s “amorality” and said: “Many of the seniorofficials in his own administration are working diligently from within tofrustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”

Bannon said the last time a US president had been challenged in such afashion was during the American Civil War when General George B. McClellanclashed with the then president, Abraham Lincoln.

“This is a crisis. The country has only ever had such a crisis in thesummer of 1862 when General McClellan and the senior generals, allDemocrats in the Union Army, deemed that Abraham Lincoln was not fit andnot competent to be commander in chief,” Bannon said.

Trump said on Friday the US Justice Department should find out who wrotethe piece, adding that it was an issue of national security.