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ABOUT TRUMP ... BUT NOT THE USA
Steve Bannon Warns Trump’s Newest MAGA Stooge “Can’t Be Trusted”
Bannon is not thrilled by the growing ranks of Silicon Valley billionaires around Donald Trump.
ABOUT TRUMP ... BUT NOT THE USA
Steve Bannon Warns Trump’s Newest MAGA Stooge “Can’t Be Trusted”
Bannon is not thrilled by the growing ranks of Silicon Valley billionaires around Donald Trump.
Steve Bannon frowns while speaking to reporters
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Original article: https://newrepublic.com/post/190201/steve-bannon-donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
I don't 'like' Steve Bannon, but I 'like' Donald Trump and his current enablers far less.
It is very depressing that Steve Bannon seems like a 'good guy' relative to the people who now surround Trump and are doing his bidding.
I have been a US 'resident alien' for more than 60 years ... but my 'being' remains very British.
While Brtain has been an important part of American history ... it is also a somewhat complicated history.
My impression is that most in recent administrations ... both Republican and Democrat ... are not well informed about US/UK history nor the depth of current collaboration.
I know that my knowledge is incomplete ... but there have been some impressive collaborations.
One of these was related to the 'Falkands War' when the British Royal Navy engaged the Argentinian armed forces over the Falklands. President Reagan gave important support to Margaret Thatcher by making available US Navy logistics to upply the Britisn forces with fuel as they were operating several thousdn mils from their home bases and supplies.
This has been repaid many times over by the British in support of a variety of US initiatives around the world ... many of which were ... in my view ... of dubious geopolitical value!
Few Americans are aware of the close collaboration there has been for a very long time between the Brits and the Yanks on the world stage ... nor the stress that ias emerging under the leadership of Donald Trump ... arguable the worst US President ever!
Peter Burgess
Bannon is not thrilled by the growing ranks of Silicon Valley billionaires around Donald Trump.
Written by Edith Olmsted
January 14, 2025/12:16 p.m. ET
Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump and architect of the MAGA movement, has turned his ire against yet another supplicant snake from Silicon Valley: Mark Zuckerberg.
During an episode of his War Room podcast Monday, Bannon took aim at the CEO of Meta, who recently announced a slate of changes to the company’s platforms designed to delight the president-elect. Bannon was less than impressed.
“The corporations are all down there right now with their little million-dollar checks, and they want to come to the, you know, they want to come to the inauguration. They want to wear black tie and pal around and go to all the receptions. That’s all fine. That’s part of an American tradition,” Bannon said. “But those corporations, and particularly the tech corporations, there’s some comments I have in the New York Post today with the great Miranda Devine, talking about Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg can’t be trusted—at all!”
Bannon said he’d gone “absolutely bonkers” when Zuckerberg had been allowed in the Oval Office during Trump’s first term, especially considering that the Meta chief had later “put up $450 million of his own money to steal the 2020 election.”
In fact, Zuckerberg and his wife donated at least $400 million to two nonprofit organizations, which doled out grants to state and local governments so they could adapt to Covid-19-era election restrictions in 2020. Zuckerberg later attempted to distance himself from these donations, saying that he intended to “be neutral and not play a role one way or another—or even appear to be playing a role.” This was only after Trump had threatened him with jail time.
“These guys are supplicants now because President Trump is coming in with the American people, have his back. But after six months—a year of hard fighting and resistance at the administrative state and deep level, and the corporations, is Zuckerberg and these guys can be counted on? Only thing they can be counted on is to look after their own self-interest. That’s it,” Bannon said.
While Zuckerberg’s attempts to shift his company rightward and obey in advance by removing some hate-speech restrictions and third-party fact-checking from his sites indicate a serious sycophantism, it seems that Bannon has no time for those who are new to this, not true to this.
That might explain why he recently went after another technocrat clinging to Trump’s coattails, Elon Musk, whom he derided as a “truly evil guy.”
In Devine’s New York Post op-ed published Sunday, Bannon called Zuckerberg “the worst of the worst.”
“He had the biggest platform and went out of his way to try to crush the truth. Remember what he did to the laptop and anything from the pandemic?” Bannon said, referring to Zuckerberg’s decision to “demote” stories about Hunter Biden while waiting for fact-checkers to assess the validity of the story—a decision that the technocrat has since said he regrets. He’s since gotten rid of fact-checking altogether, making it even easier for misinformation and propaganda to spread across his social media platforms.
“He’s been dead wrong on everything,” Bannon continued. “He’s immature and lacks the judgment to have that much power and that much control.”