James Billot: Steve Bannon is ready for war

UnHerd's own James Billot joins Emily to go behind the scenes of his buzzy new interview with Steve Bannon. Bannon, who let James into the War Room studio, weighed in on Elon Musk, DOGE, and more.

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[ewc]

There’s a reason Bannon isn’t in the Trump admin, and it’s not named Musk. Steve is useful in his current role

[marianam]

And yet, I heard in an interview bannon gave just a few days ago that he praised the work musk is doing. Weird.

[PDW]

Bannon is pissed because President Trump asked Musk to do what Bannon thought he coulda shoulda done better. Wreaks of jealousy. Plus, Bannon is NOT in the Trump admin this time around while Navarro is.

[KyleTXMason]

This is a good one! When are you going on warroom?

[robbie_]

Funny. That's precisely what I think about Steve Bannon.

[manuelluna]

I have no idea about War Room except that Natalie Winters works there.

[LucaRoe]

I’m just a normie & I can feel this - I am skeptical of the tech bros slowly coming in because no one is talking about it. Theil, Luckey, Stephens, all have ties to Israeli intelligence & Theil was a business partner of Epstein & helped cofound carbyn911 - to even try to distance Theil from Epstein, & how that particular system was used, is a sick joke. Yet no one even has a slight bit of skepticism. You can acknowledge the tech bros, maybe like some of their ish, but still be skeptical.. but very few of the loud maga are doing that.

[jdroth]

Bannon is to far right .and that's coming from a long time conservative. I think he's a little unhinged.

[gyterdoneJP]

Yes, finally the young man states the rub of the friction, Bannon’s ego of being on the lower shelf.

[mr.needmoremhz]

Driving in the wedge, trying to front run future events … 3 letter agency tactics (only they have credibility to predict some short-term events in the future)… Great story as she said story …

[DarahanDhesi]

Bannon is right but Musk is smart. Musk beside Soros and Al Jazeera plays their card very well

[fredbell]

I don’t believe this story. The comments from bannon are totally extreme. Unless he was drunk or on drug.

[Nill]

@13m. “One of the worlds largest defense contractors”

That’s nonsense. SpaceX is nowhere close to being a large US defense contractor. Lockheed $65B/yr. SpaceX is not top ten. Defense is a minority share of SpaceX revenue.

[codygreen]

I applaud everything elon has been doing BUT I have never trusted him this is a time where MAGA gets to see what JD can do on the world stage but elon is overshadowing him all those interviews trump has with elon should be with JD.

[TourchezArt]

Stephen A Smith??? Honestly his views aren’t that bad but that would be absolutely insane he is so underqualified it’s not even funny

[heatherheath]

Sounds like Trumps moniker for Bannon, Sloppy Steve, has some weight to it when you hear about the disarray around the War Room lol

[mansawes]

Everyone does know that Steve Bannon is a Hollywood producer and has just move his attention from producing Hollywood shows to producing a political production

[TitoTea]

Bannon is someone who can make a lot of noise, respect is due for having endured a prison stint instead of caving to the dems. Peter Navarro is a lot more worthy of accolades and praise and, is in the current admin. yes Steven A. is the next pretender in chief on democrat side.

[Individual_Lives_Matter]

I hope Bannon is irrelevant. I disagree with almost everything he advocates for. He’s a big government guy.

[tonymarks]

Emily shrug off the schoolyard stuff, its just hot air, think spreadsheet like bongino use that processor of yours for felevant items, n less emotion