Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump‘s second term, prominent right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon predicted on Sunday two things that history will remember from Trump’s time in politics.
Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s transition team via email for comment on Sunday afternoon.
Why It Matters
Bannon, a staunch Trump ally and former White House chief strategist during the president-elect’s first term, played a key role in shaping Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and early presidency. Known for his hardline populist views and support for nationalist policies, before his time in the White House, Bannon was executive chairman of Breitbart News.
Since leaving the Trump administration in 2017, Bannon has remained a prominent voice in right-wing media, hosting the War Room podcast, on which he continues to support Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. He resumed his media activities after being released from prison in October 2024 after serving four months for defying a congressional subpoena related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
While Trump gears up to take office on Monday, he continues to face pushback from his critics, specifically as the incoming administration gears up to enact a hardline immigration agenda and other controversial policies.
What To Know
In a Sunday interview with ABC News’ This Week with host Jonathan Karl, Bannon spoke about Trump as he predicted the two things history will remember from Trump’s time in office.
“When history is written, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, we’ll all be washed away and forgotten in the footnotes. They’ll know two things, and [former House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi be washed away, [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer. They’ll know two things. Trump and the MAGA movement. This is changing American politics. American politics is, as I said for years, is ultimately going to get a place of two alternative versions of populism. A populist nationalism that President Trump has built up, America first. And you’re going to have some sort of still populist globalism that looks like the left may try to come together with,” he said.
Bannon previously laid out an aggressive plan for his former boss’ first 48 hours back in the Oval Office.
Speaking with Donald Trump Jr. on his Triggered podcast in December, Bannon described a blitz of executive orders, mass deportations regarding illegal immigration and a direct confrontation with Washington lawmakers.
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