Through blunt conversations and terse texting exchanges, Steve Bannon, the populist strategist and nationalist firebrand, tries to keep tabs on the inner workings of the White House. His inquiries fan out across the top rungs of President Donald Trump’s ...

Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser and a leading MAGA figure, broadcast his War Room podcast live from CPAC, and spent more than an hour afterward signing autographs and posing for pictures. He came in second in the CPAC straw poll of favored presidential candidates for 2028, behind Vance.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis grabbed 7%, followed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio at 3%, New York congresswoman and Trump’s pick for United Nations ambassador Elise Stefanik also at 3%, and Donald Trump Jr. at 2%.

Steve Bannon has warned that tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg will eventually abandon Donald Trump and the Republican Party, just as they distanced themselves from Democrats. In a CNN interview,

Donald Trump, who practically built his entire 2024 presidential campaign on the spurious grievance that Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department against him and his allies, is weaponizing

On the Thursday episode of War Room, while gushing over massive government spending cuts, Bannon warned that cutting Medicaid specifically would prove unpopular among the working-class members of Trump’s base, who make up some of the 80 million people who get their health care through that program.

“Scott Bessent today said Elon’s group in the first 30 days found $55 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse,” said Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist during the first several months of his first term. “$55 billion, that’s going to add up to six, seven, $800 billion. In one month, they’ve done that.”

Steve Bannon attacked Elon Musk in an interview with British outlet Unherd published Tuesday, criticizing Musk’s power and calling him “a parasitic illegal immigrant”—escalating the feud between one of President Donald Trump’s key advisers and his one-time campaign chief Bannon.