I agree with your side of the thread, this looks like a lack of comprehension on the part of the people trying to interpret 10 seconds of throwaway commentary as somehow meaningful. Bannon is trying to express frustration with the culture of the bureaucrats and his opponents are suffering a suspiciously strategic total failure of imagination.

But as a tip, 'All you seem to be doing is repeating the statement and gesturing wildly at it going "See? See????? Bad!"' is horrifyingly bad technique when responding to someone who just said 'you need to respond to what people actually say, rather than fantasies of what you'd like them to have said'. gp is literally correct now. When someone says that you'll get much better results with literal quotes rather than unfair characterisations. You've got a good point, you can afford to be gentle.