
Episode 4447: Countdown To Trump's First 100 Days; Amazon Turns On Trump Admin ...
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Rachel Maddow
In public opinion terms, he has had the most disastrous first hundred days of any president since the dawn of modern polling. No president has ever botched the first hundred days more badly than Donald Trump has botched it. And that's true not just for his approval rating generally and how people feel about him. It's for every single thing you ask the American public about in terms of what he has done. Do you like any of it? No. Day 99 of the second Trump administration, and we're starting this evening with money, power, politics. According to Donald Trump, he runs the country and the world. That is what he told the Atlantic about his view of his second term in office. In the interview, Trump also pushed back on the idea that economic chaos would make him roll back his tariffs. He said, while it always affects you a little bit, there's no red line or certain number that would make him change course. But it is not just Wall street or business community that's currently uneasy about Trump's economy. Recent polls are showing that most Americans disapprove of how Trump has handled the economy. Of course, Trump's team in public is brushing off all the polls and the worries, saying Trump is focused on putting Americans first. And while the business world is very concerned about the trade war with China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, he says the ball. Well, it's in China's court.
Scott Bessant
I believe that it's up to China to de escalate because they sell five times more to us than we sell to them. And so these 125, 145% tariffs are unsustainable.
Rachel Maddow
Here's where I think we are right now. I think that Trump and the Trump administration are going to throw some increasingly wild pitches to try to change the political trajectory of how things are going. I mean, they're now deporting U.S. citizens. You can't deport a U.S. citizen. U.S. citizens are from here. There's nowhere to deport them to. They're now arresting judges. Right. It's insane. I think that we should expect some wild pitches, some truly reckless actions to try to change the trajectory of how things are going, to try to make it seem like this is a new game. I think because of that instinct in Trump, we should expect that there are going to be some things ahead that are markedly more horrible than even what they have done already. I think they're going to try to put some proverbial heads on pikes, and I think that's going to be terrible. Well, first of all, he's done more.
Stephen K. Bannon
In the first 100 days than I've done in my 38 year career. So he's great to watch, but I.
Rachel Maddow
Really love the Cabinet meetings.
Stephen K. Bannon
He lets the American people into those rooms. We get to observe the questions and the answers, know what they're doing. It's really a way that he connects with the public, and I think that's so important.
Rachel Maddow
Negotiating is.
Stephen K. Bannon
His skills are unbelievable.
Mike Davis
You remember when he was negotiating for.
Stephen K. Bannon
The Boeing jet and he talked about how he wanted it under. I think it was $300,000 or something. He got it to 299.
Mike Davis
999.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, because the man knows planes, right? Yeah, exactly. I'd like inflation to come down a.
Mike Davis
Little more, but I'm patient.
Rachel Maddow
I think we need to be patient.
Stephen K. Bannon
Because he's going to get it done. He's got the stomach for it and we just got to be behind him 100%.
Rachel Maddow
So just keep doing what you're doing. President Trump, we love it. Culturally, it is now firmly established that capitulation and sucking up to Trump is shameful and weak and marks you as a loser. Conversely, I think it is culturally ingrained now that saying no and fighting him and standing up to him shows that you are strong and a winner and somebody who other people might be interested in. The superabundance of court rulings against Trump will continue. I think that will help. Bottom line. I think as long as the movement against him stays nonviolent, the movement against him wins. I think Republicans in elected office at every level will face unrelenting and increasing pressure to split from Trump on his almost unbelievably unpopular policies. Everything from tariffs to cutting Medicaid to what he's doing to Social Security, to his treatment of Ukraine to medical research to Meals on Wheels to Head Start, all of it. Republicans will be under unrelenting and increasing pressure to split from him on basically every policy with which he is associated. And yes, that includes immigration, and yes, that includes his abuse of trans people. I think relentless opposition and mockery of his failures will spread and intensify as those are further exposed and as nobody in any part of Republican politics finds any way to defend him. I think emergency defense measures will increasingly spring up all over the country whenever he tries to pick anyone off, immigrants or otherwise. I think 100 days in that Donald Trump is losing. And I think Americans defending democracy are winning.
Stephen K. Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going with evil on these people. Christians not got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
Rogan O'Hanley
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
Stephen K. Bannon
MAGA media.
Rogan O'Hanley
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Stephen K. Bannon
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War room here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. It's Tuesday, 29th, April, year of our Lord 2025. I think I'm going to play that again all day long. It's official. We broke President Trump and the MAGA movement. Flood the zone. The hundred days. Rachel Maddow is a broken woman.
Mike Davis
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
Now here's how dedicated Rachel is to the cause. I think tomorrow nights or last night or it's the 100th day. So she's going back into retirement. Trump broke her. Last night was just an irrational. We should have had, you know, if we had time, they were going to have Nicole Wallace. Nicole Wallace. Stephanie Rule. Morning. Mika and Rachel Maddow, murderers row of the progressive movement. This is why you're losing Dave Brat Thoughts? It was incoherent. She just, the only thing she said at the end, it was the courts. The courts are, the courts are coming to rescue us.
Mike Davis
Yeah. If you're, if your enemies tank and let them tank. Right. So the, the outrage and the totality. Everything Trump does is awful. Right. I mean, just the hyperbole tells you everything. Right. They, the laugh still hasn't come out with any counter. Narrative or counter.
Stephen K. Bannon
Because they're not, they're not prepared for this. This is why it's providential. We had the election stolen in 2020. If President Trump rolled right into a second term. We've been fighting those same battles. It was the tactical retreat after the steal and the precinct strategy on one hand gave him the infrastructure at the grassroots level to kind of organize the rallies and turn the rallies into a political force at the same time. And there's nothing short of the heroic public intellectuals of Stephen Miller and America First Law of Brooks Rollins and America First Policy Institute of Russ Vogt, center for Renewing America, of Jim DeMint and Meadows over at CPI center for. Was it the Conservative Policy Institute and of course, and of course the name that should not be mentioned, Project 2025. Doctor, Dr. Roberts. Roberts and Paul.
Anthony Constantino
Paul and Paul.
Stephen K. Bannon
Dan's the great heroes all of that put together. So you could have 10 or 15 things. This has been the most fundamental reshaping of the American government since fdr. And probably more because he's doing it in more in different areas. In fact, the EOs, the executive orders, the executive actions, the memos are much more. But I can tell you psychologically, we've broken them. I mean, Rachel Maddow is just a sh. Last night was incoherent. I thought what she was going to do to show she's really committed to try to defeat MAGA and Trump. She would announce, by the way, I'm not doing it for 100 days. I'm here for all four years, every night. She's not. She's taking her 25 million and going to Connecticut, going to go to the barn with the wife or the husband, whoever the, whoever a partner, whatever her partner is called, she's going to go up there and hang out, you know, write some screenplays and come in once a week for a flyby. Right. Yeah.
Mike Davis
And the other. I don't want to call them intangibles, but the American people are so innocent in a way. Right. Especially the flyover country. But people can breathe again. The CEOs can breathe again. The COVID attack, the censorship attack. It's hard to define what that was. Right. The kids playing basketball and football with masks on, the boys in the girls rooms. I mean, it's just a whole host.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's back to.
Mike Davis
It's back to America.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's back to America. We ain't there yet.
Mike Davis
Yeah, right.
Stephen K. Bannon
But. But you can tell the difference. It's also exposed those people who were, you know, this is France after the war.
Mike Davis
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's proven who are collaborators like your CEOs. The CEOs were collab on DEI and now they're all chucking it over. Right.
Mike Davis
And. And they better wake up permanently here. Because if you don't put this. There's only one man who's responsible for the power and the courage here, and it's Trump. And once if he is, you know, in four years or whatever, we'll see how that all.
Stephen K. Bannon
You're the headquarters of 28.
Mike Davis
That's why I stuttered.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, no, no, but listen. Stop, stop. There's a logic to it. A guy like this, this is like Washington in the revolution or the Civil War in the founding of the nation.
Mike Davis
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
This is like, you know, Washington had a presence, a massive Presence for what? 20 years of American public life. The key 20 years of the revolution. The founding. And then Lincoln later on. You get a guy like this once a century. Yeah, you got to get all the squeeze from the lemon.
Mike Davis
And we're going to talk about antitrust coming up. But everyone, please remember all the big tech monopolies and oligarchs were censoring you. Mike Benz covered all this redefining democracy. 20 million tweets were called. Tweets were called cyber events in law that I guess I voted for. Wouldn't have known about it. I mean, that, that's some shocking stuff. If we don't turn that over in statute, that's going to come.
Stephen K. Bannon
Right. That's why we're going to get into what's happening over at the House and Mike Davis is going to join us because you got to break these things up. We got them. We've got them on the run. President Trump has the most. This is the way you destroy the oligarchs. The way you destroy the oligarchs is with action at the ftc, the fcc, the Justice Department right now have the equivalent of Elliot Ness's Untouchables. It's an all star crew.
Mike Davis
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
And up on Capitol Hill, the big, the donors understanding that Trump is impervious, at least at this stage, to their, to their pleas.
Mike Davis
Right.
Stephen K. Bannon
Right now they've gone to the Hill, they're trying to worm in, trying to warm into some of the committees.
Mike Davis
And I've talked to some major, I'm not a donor guy, as everybody knows, but I've talked to some major donors and their representatives and whatever. And these guys still will tell me it's possible to do free trade with China. I said, you got to be kidding me. I said, these countries that have massive tariffs on us, so we can do free trade with them. And then I ask them, these oligarchs, you think you can do free trade with a monopoly? I mean, econ 101, a supply curve has a bunch of firms on it. That's what it means to have a market, not a monopoly. A market means a lot of firms. And the small guys would like to be on that supply curve. And we've left them behind and Trump's putting them back in the room. And that's, that's huge.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay. For the, for the next two days, we're going to be both celebrating and commemorating the first hundred days of the most historic presidency, I don't know, since Lincoln or Washington, I mean, greater than Reagan, greater than fdr, this is, this is the restoration of America. But we're not just going to sit there and, oh, this is wonderful. It's all great. We're going to steel ourselves for the next hundred days because I think between, if you look at the next hundred, which would be July 29th, right, we've got so much is going on. You're going to have the trade deals come into focus. The economic war. China is going to come into focus. The big beautiful bill, right, with, with all the. And we're going to call it as we see it on this big, beautiful bill because it's got to be done, right? And President Trump's obvious got tremendous pressure on geopolitically. You know, the ceasefire in Ukraine, obviously, the Russian rapprochement. There's so much going on. Trump's got them going at every different level. It's so fantastic.
Mike Davis
I'll just throw in a little footnote. When I was in Congress, we also had the House and the Senate and the White House. We had no strategy. We're going to do tax cuts and Obamacare and that was it. And those were accidental and haphazard. Trump now is going across every secretary he has under him with full on pedal to the metal. Every vertical, every piece.
Stephen K. Bannon
And these are.
Mike Davis
It's unheard of.
Stephen K. Bannon
If you look in the eight years of Clinton, he basically made a push for school uniforms, right? Trump does more like in a day than Clinton did in eight years. It's, it's, it's stunning. And folks should know that we're hitting on all cylinders. Of course. That's why. God, we're gonna play that Rachel Maddow meltdown again. It's so great. We broke her. She's a broken woman. Going to go back to the barn in Connecticut. We got it. We got to break Stephanie rule. We got to break one morning because of broken toy, anyway. And Nicole Wallace, the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Okay? A Rogan. We kicked around an idea that Rogan O'Hanley brought up the other day. DC Drano. It got a little traction in the White House yesterday. We're setting the stage now for the next hundred days. What does that remember? The three verticals. Stop the kinetic part of the Third World War, the mass deport and get this financial, you know, cataclysmic event that's happening to us. All sorted out. Rogan O'Hanley is going to be here on the mass deportations. He's got a, he's got an idea that, that I think, that I think makes sense. And I think the White House thinks it might make sense also. Bert Gold, take your phone out, text Bannon Ba n o n 989898 the ultimate guide to Investing in Gold and Precious Metals in the Era of Trump. Get it today it's free. Short commercial break Back in a moment. You don't go out and buy a life jacket when the boat is already sinking and you don't buy gold when the economy has already collapsed. Clearly others are heeding this advice as gold hit an all time high the first part of 2025 multiple times. It's not too late for you. The company I trust to help you diversify into physical gold is Birch Gold, the company I buy my gold from. Birch Gold specializes and helping you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA and physical gold for no money out of pocket. Just listen to this five star review, quote knowledgeable, helpful, non pressure, end quote. That's what you get with Burch Gold and that's why I've endorsed them for so long. Get your free info kit on gold by texting the word Bannon B A N N O N to 989-898. There's no obligation, just useful information with an A plus rating from the Better Business Bureau and countless five star reviews. Text Bannon Bannon O N to 989898 and let the experts at Birchgold help you secure your financial future Today with Gold DST Today.
Rachel Maddow
As always, Rogan O'Hanley, former Hollywood Entertainment.
Stephen K. Bannon
Lawyer I didn't know that. Rogan, who got fed up with the far left ideologies of California, now posts conservative political commentary online for his more than 7 million followers across all major platforms. He joins us today from the great state of Florida.
Rachel Maddow
Why don't you kick us off today, Rogan?
Rogan O'Hanley
Thank you, Caroline. In Trump's first 99 days, we've seen a coordinated assault on the rule of law by radical judges. We're thwarting his agenda with an unprecedented number of national injunctions. These judges are providing more due process to violent MS.13 in Trenton, Aragua illegal aliens than they did for American citizens who peacefully protested on January 6th. As Stephen Miller has highlighted, it would be utterly ridiculous to have full trials and appeals for the more than 15 million illegal aliens that came across our border under Joe Biden. Many are now calling for Trump to circumvent these radical judges and consider suspending the writ of habeas corpus solely for these illegal aliens in accordance with the terms of Article 1, Section 9 of the United States Constitution, which explicitly allows for such a measure. When there is a rebellion or invasion, there are strong press, greatest presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Democrats favorite president of all time, fdr. All three of which are not only celebrated by historians, but are immortalized on our national currency with their faces on there. Furthermore, all three used it against American citizens, where in this instance we would only be using it against illegal aliens. I think almost every reasonable American would agree that 15 million illegal aliens coming across our border under Joe Biden counts as an invasion. Especially since many, as you highlighted, are now robbing, assaulting, raping and killing American citizens. Historic assaults on our republic require reciprocal action from our government. Can you please let us know if and when the Trump administration is planning to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to circumvent these radical judges who are infringing on his article Two Powers and to start shipping out illegals en masse?
Stephen K. Bannon
I have not heard. Tomorrow he wrote about Lincoln and part of one of his chapters or one of his vignettes in there is about this very topic. Yeah, about President Lincoln suspending habeas corpus in a time of national emergency and really challenging the courts. Now, later on they papered it and they did that about it, but they worked it all out eventually. But it was a. Is an issue right now, given the emergency that we have. Right. We can't mess around with these courts. We have an invasion of the country right now. We've deported 135,000 people, which some people say, oh, that's not enough. Hey, these people are criminals. What Homan and these guys doing are fantastic. They don't have all the resources right now, but as I said at Hillsdale the other day, it's got to be all 10 million. We don't have a republic. If, you know, you have to have a rule of law. If you don't and Wall Street's going to make an argument, right? The left's going to. Left wants the votes. Wall street wants the consumer goods. Corporations want the lower wages. Your thoughts about this?
Mike Davis
Yeah, well, it's just asymmetric, right? They can bring in always 10 million illegal. And for some reason we can't push out the 10 million that came in illegally without getting attacked.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, no, they had the courts working.
Mike Davis
With them and it was well orchestrated. That's all been covered. But that's our side always plays like Cubs, Scouts, etc. And so now it'swe've awakened the American people. The impact on wage rates and the social costs and the criminal costs and the 100,000 dead from drugs, all that gets bypassed in this conversation. All these supposed people are in favor of inclusivity and all this kind of thing. They miss the impact on the American people here. And so it's just the gap gaslighting from the left. They tell you, just like Rachel having a meltdown there. The real meltdown is they brought 10 million illegal folks into the country illegally with no one saying anything. The CEOs said nothing. The court said nothing.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, the courts helped them.
Mike Davis
The legal think tanks on our side weren't strong enough. And now, now we are faced Trump.
Stephen K. Bannon
In the MAGA movement. We stood. We stood firm, you know, for every. You know, for years. We hammered this with Todd Bensman and Ben Berkwam and Oscar Blue Ramirez and made sure the American people knew the scam here was. Do we have now, We've had a slight technical problem. We've corrected. Rogan O'Hanley, you were in the White House. You're saying the press briefing room laid out the historical foundation for your element. You broke this the other day on the war room. People love it. I think it's more relevant now than it even was a couple of days ago. Walk us through your suspension of habeas corpus in a time of a national emergency to basically rid the nation of the invader. Sir.
Rogan O'Hanley
Yeah. I'm just glad Caroline didn't ask me to repeat the question. It was a little bit long winded, but I wanted to anticipate the counterattacks from the media losing their minds and address their biggest arguments right up front so they couldn't have an easy win here. But, you know, and I also wanted to kind of educate people on. On what this is, what has been done in the past and what it would mean and why we would limit it just to illegal aliens. We're not deporting American or, you know, abolishing the writ of habeas corpus for American citizens. It's a much more targeted issue. And listen, there was an invasion. This is a constitutional mechanism to repel an invasion and to quell rebellion. We don't have a rebellion here. We have an invasion. And this is. This matters for so many reasons. It not only matters for the rule of law so that people believe in our courts again. It not only matters for the strain on our social services, hundreds of billions of dollars in welfare benefits. It not only matters for lowering crime and making our streets a lot safer. How many hundreds of Americans have been killed by illegal aliens, but it really matters for the 2030 census, okay? And Democrats, that's blue states have been bleeding citizens moving to red states. And without counting illegals in the Census, we could pick up 12 electoral college votes in these safe red states by the 2030 census. That's 12 congressional seats. We would not even need to campaign in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, although we would, because they're great, beautiful states. But you could win it with just the safe red states. And Democrats know this. So I think there are exigent circumstances. There is a very big kind of goal here, and I think it would put Trump in the historical president category to exercise this and do what needs to be done. And so I wanted to start to put this out there now, soften the battlefield for him, so that if and when he does finally do this, the American people are fully supportive.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, no, no, look, let's talk about this. You put it up, I think, on Twitter a week ago. We had you on the show that morning, had Mo reach out to you. Next thing you know, a couple days later, you're in the White House briefing room and they're doing a special. They're doing kind of a special briefing to have you, you and Homan highlighted. There's obviously a lot of interest in this. I want to go back one more time and just in two minutes, make your case again, because people go, oh, my God, this is dictatorial powers. Right? There's a logic for this. What is it, Rogan O'Hanley?
Rogan O'Hanley
Well, I just want to say that I tried to be the voice for the War Room posse in that press briefing room. And yes, you and Captain Bannon found my post. You brought me on. I posted this clip from War Room on my X account. It got 14,000 retweets. I go, we're onto something here. And then a couple days later, the White House says, hey, do you want to come in the new media chair? They didn't know what I was going to ask Mask and I kind of mentioned it to him. They said, oh, that's going to be spicy. But. But go ahead. They're really about media and free speech. But this has been exercised by three US presidents, three of our best, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and FDR. This is a constitutional power under Article 1, Section 9, and it is only for in cases of rebellion or invasion. And all I'm asking for, Steve, all we want is the same treatment that Martha's Vineyard got. When a few dozen illegals got sent there within 48 hours, they mobilized the National Guard and shipped them out without a trial. If it's good enough for Martha's Vineyard, it's good enough for East Palestine, Ohio, it's good enough for Michigan it's good enough for Florida. That's all we want. Give us what you did on Martha's Vineyard for the country. Mobilize the troops, ship them out without a trial, and then everyone will be happy.
Stephen K. Bannon
D.C. drano, you got one of the biggest, most influential platforms in on the mega, right? Where do people go to participate and get some of your knowledge and wisdom?
Rogan O'Hanley
Sir, it's all on X Truth Getter, Instagram mostly. That's. That's where I'm most active. DC Underscore Drano. So thank you, Steve. It's an honor to have you on and I give almost all the credit to you. You kind of plucked that tweet out of obscurity, brought me on, said, damn, this is going to be spicy. But go at it. And here we are now. Now it's out there.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's behind this. I tell you, you were so smart to do that. And we're going to, we're going to drive this because folks were coming to this. It's the. I talked at Hillsdale the other night. It's a convergence of crises that are all going to merge together in the second hundred days. It's going to make the second hundred days actually more exciting, more meaningful, more historic in the first. DC Drano, thank you so much. Thank you, young guy. This one's going to be a big one. And the hill they are dying on is around a human trafficker. Right. By the way, which the Tennessee State Police will not release. To Michael Patrick Leahy, the records short commercial break Burch Gold Take your phone out. Text Bannon v A N n Owen at 989-898 to get the ultimate guide. The ultimate guide totally free to investing in gold and precious metals in the era of Trump. Little children in a straight line don't fall behind My love visions only meant to indoctrinate the mind.
Rachel Maddow
See Ain't always.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Mike Davis
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, new angle of attack today. New angle of attack day. Brett is going to be what happened in Canada last night. The problem is the populist guy is not really a populist. He starts bashing Trump a couple of weeks ago, a couple of months ago and he gets, and they don't. And the liberals don't get a majority government. It's a minority government. So Ken is still in the mess. But hey, if the Canadians want to vote for that, vote for it. I think the focus for us has got to be these western provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, particularly this woman out there named Danielle Smith who's kind of very, she's really a populist nationalist, not like this guy. And by the way, this guy lost his seat. I keep telling people, you know, you go to CPAC and you have a. In fact last night on Rachel Maddow, for all the hate she's dumping on Trump for 100 days because it's one of her last nights before she goes to summer retirement. They take 10 minutes to bash on Viktor Orban, our guy. And I say you go to CPAC and you know, cpac Hungary is coming up and if we can make it, we're gonna try to but it may, may be too jammed here. You've got people want Orban, they want Bolsonaro, they want Farage, they want the guys at AfD Alternative for Deutschland, they want the fire breed breathers right Malay, they want people that are populous. Or this guy, I've never heard a request for this guy. And so it's now, I will tell you, they're going to take Mark Carney, who's just another Goldman Sachs stiff. They're going to take him and they're going to use that. Oh, it's a new shift. The whole world is going to come around and I think what they're going to lead is the next wave. You're going to see is the universities coming together to try to thwart Trump. Your thoughts?
Mike Davis
Yeah. If you look at all the conservative movements, populist movements around the world, they're all on the ascendant. Right. You can see the strength of military, economy, geopolitics, alliances with the US and the good guys. Also adherence to religion, gotta say, in a lot of those countries. And then you look at these other. Canada is really just analogous to Europe on the decline. The church pews are empty, economic growth down, low energy, and they're kind of taking on the European mantle. And what Trump is doing is telling everybody, get your house in order. Right. Because you're about ready to lose all your free money coming from the USA and the taxpayers and the middle class. Right. Your days are at an end. We're going to move toward the Pacific when it comes to geopolitical strategy. We're moving away from the endless wars. There's an awful piece in the Wall Street Journal op ed piece today, Trump's hundred days. Yeah, yeah. And he's criticized, says Trump doesn't want peace. He doesn't want a.
Stephen K. Bannon
The Wall street honor. The Wall Street Journal twisted. The Wall Street Journal hates Trump.
Mike Davis
Yeah, they hate him.
Stephen K. Bannon
They hate MAGA more. Yeah, right. But they hate Trump. What do you got for me?
Mike Davis
Yeah, this is Gerard Baker.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, Jerry Baker's a good guy. I like him. Baker's a former editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Mike Davis
Well, I don't, I don't know him, but here's what he wrote. Perhaps Mr. Trump, great Patrine sanctuary. Peter had experienced the ultimate Pauline conversion. As I say, the Catholic in me wants, chooses to believe. The skeptic in me remains. Got to. While Trump is right to seek an end to this pitiless war, what has been missing has been any commitment to peace with honor from Trump. All Trump talks about every time he gets in front of Zelensky and all the world leaders is the boys dying on the battlefield. That's honor, sir. I don't know what you're talking about. You're not reporting the truth. There and so get on with it.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, but read the thing further. What they want is an American. They want America to be involved in that mess going forward.
Mike Davis
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
President Trump's adamant.
Mike Davis
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
In fact, that's what we're so adamant against, the economic deal. We don't want any involvement at all to get the Ukraine thing done.
Mike Davis
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
And President Trump knows it's not going to be easy. He's working hard to do it. But Putin and those guys, I mean, they're two Slavic entities going at it. Right. There's 1.5 million casualties either dead or wounded. So remember, all wars eventually become wars of attrition and annihilation. Why? Because vengeance comes in, retribution comes in. The feelings of families have had loved ones killed, this town's destroyed, and this is what's happening in Ukraine. President Trump's doing a Herculean task of trying to keep everybody. Of trying to keep everybody kind of take a deep breath.
Mike Davis
And the news reporting out there may want to go back to 2014, Crimea. Right. Because Tucker interviewed a guy that has been on the Russian side of football, interviewing from Russia's perspective in the war, from their side, not pro Russia, but our length interview on Crimea. And if you go back, the Crimea was Russian until 56, 1956, and now. And those people had a referendum, and they said, we want to go back to Russia. That set of facts matters there. We got to get to that. And so this idea. And then, of course, our CIA was also involved in the coup d'etat in 14 as well. And that set of facts needs to come out and be put forward very clearly. These Wall Street Journal guys who want the wars to continue are just in the pockets of big defense and big funding and big money and all that. And they get paid. Right. As we found out from usaid, the press are all cutouts for these various government.
Stephen K. Bannon
Government like the Wall Street Journal. I want to ask Jerry Baker, did we get peace with honor in Iraq? Did we get peace with honor in Afghanistan? I don't remember you yelling at the Bush regime or Obama, but we'll put a pin in it. Jerry Baker's not a bad guy. Just off track. The Wall Street Journal is so neoliberal, neocon. They hate Trump and man, do they hate maga. They hate that. They hate the populist movement. They hate nationalism. Anthony Constantino joins us, an entrepreneur. So today we're gonna. We're gonna have Mike Davis on tomorrow in a moment about the oligarchs. Amazon Bezos oligarch goes to war with Trump by Separating, he's going to put what the tariff costs are there. Anthony, what do you think? You're a small businessman, you're a manufacturing guy. Talk to us about your ideas about President Trump. Is he doing a good job? Is he given the groundwork for guys like you to make it?
Scott Bessant
I think he's doing great. Always better than expected. I think the thing I like the most about President Trump, I look at politicians, I say, can I do what that guy's doing? I look at President Trump, I'm like, I don't think I could ever do anywhere close to what he's doing. He always outperforms, and he does, you know, better than expected. And I like politics. I built an incredible company, over a thousand people, but I kind of like hanging out with regular people. I like hanging out my frontline factory employees and regular people. And, you know, the president's the same way.
Stephen K. Bannon
Anthony, talk to me about, as a businessman, President Trump, you know, msnbc, CNN this morning are hammering him, saying he's losing small businessmen. All this poll's going the wrong way. We had Rasmussen on it, said it's all a psyop, that people still like the policies. Where do you see the economy right now and where do you see it? As a guy that has a factory and is a manufacturer, a small manufacturer, I agree.
Scott Bessant
It's all a psyop. They always say, people, President Trump's losing supporters, that never happens. People that like President Trump, they know who he is and know what he operates. I've watched him for eight years. I think a lot of people understand he's one of the best negotiators in the world. He's negotiating very aggressive, aggressively on tariffs. I have a company, I sell all over the world. I got over a thousand people, but I sell all over the world. When I sell all over the world, I get tariffs wherever I go, I get tariffs all over the place. And President Trump's fighting to stop that. And there's no such thing as a negotiation where you just say, hey, can you please stop your tariffs? And they say, yes, sir. You know, you always got to fight. There's always a little bit of friction and turbulence and a tough negotiation. But President Trump's one of the best negotiators in the world, and he's fighting. And, you know, we're going to go through a little bit of turbulence. But at the end of the day, he's doing what's right for the American people and for American businesses. I try to sell all over the world. I pay ridiculous Tariffs. And he's going to make that go away, hopefully.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hey, talk to me about when President Trump talks about reciprocity, he tried to get this into the American people's minds. It's just not the monetary tariff, it's the non tariff barriers, it's the currency manipulation, it's the counterfeiting. It's all the rules and regulations at shipping and at the port and customs and all that talk to our people. How tough is it that, how tougher the non tariff, the non monetary tariff barriers for you as an American export?
Scott Bessant
Sure. One thing I did that was very smart. Other people don't do it, but I ship all over the world and when I pay, you know, when I go to these other countries, I got to pay big fees. There's all these nonsensical fees when you go into the country. And I absorb those costs on behalf of my customers. And in many cases when I ship to foreign countries, I don't make any money at all. I just want to get my goods over there and get the, get the presence over there and build it up and then bring the revenue back to the United States of America, which I do very effectively. But yeah, there's fees and there's all sorts. There's not just tariffs, but there's customs duties and import duties and all sorts of, you know, ridiculous fees I pay on behalf of other people. But I have, you know, a great company and I have great margins and I'm able to absorb that. Not everybody can do that sort of thing and sell over the world. So if we make those tariffs go away, and as President Trump said, not only make the tariffs go away, but look for ways to bring the taxes down on people earning less than $200,000 a year. Because we're maybe making a little bit of money off of tariffs on our own end. What does it call it? The External Revenue Service? I think it's a great idea. You know, one thing people don't realize, you know, I'm a business owner and so, you know, I'm doing pretty well for myself. But people say, you know, you get a good job, you make two or three or $400,000 a year. But it's really not such a great situation because at the end of the day, you're paying massive taxes. And the only way to really make it big in this country is to own your own business at this moment. Because if you're salaried person, you're making two, three or four hundred thousand dollars a year, you're getting taxed like Crazy. And so guys like Mark Zuckerberg and all these other, you know, rich fat cats or whatever you want to call them, they're not concerned about this situation because they're making their money in different ways. They're not salaried people, but salary. People say, geez, you know, the dream is to make a job where you make how many people make $400,000 a year? Not that many. But even if you do it and you pull it off, you still don't make that much money because you get taxed like crazy.
Stephen K. Bannon
Anthony, where do people go to find out more about the company in your social media? Where they go, well, you know, ever.
Scott Bessant
Since President Trump got shot and working on more on the political end of things in New York, New York's estate, that's failing. It's going in a very bad direction. President Trump called the most corrupt state in the union, and I want to work to fix that. So I'm less interested in the business right now. You can check out the business called Sticker Mule, but, you know, I'm more interested in making New York great again and helping the president, helping the country move in a better direction. Check me out on there you go. Twitter AC132 or just look me up on Facebook. Anthony Constantino.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, Anthony, you know, they got a go. I hear they got a governor's race coming up in the. In the not too distant future. Hoko looks like she's vulnerable. Hoka looks like she's vulnerable. Any thoughts on that?
Scott Bessant
I agree. She's very vulnerable. She's a terrible candidate. She's a terrible governor. She's not a very exciting person. I don't even know how she got in there. I guess, you know, she was just lurking in the shadows in Cuomo. Messed up big time, but, you know, we knew he was dopey, but he has a good name, so, you know, he pulled it off because he has the name. You know, he's a nice name, and people knew the name. But, you know, then he screwed up big time. By the way, I knew that girl, I went to high school with her that he was fooling around with and causing all the problems. You know, she's not the nicest person in the world.
Stephen K. Bannon
That's what I hear. Anthony, where do they go? Do you have a political site or what's your social media for, Anthony?
Scott Bessant
And just check me on social media. I caused a lot of trouble in New York on Facebook. You know, that's where I'm the most active because Facebook's great for Local Zuckerberg's not the best guy. You know the funny thing is I went to high school with know the girl that caused all that trouble with, with Mr. Cuomo and my brother went to high school with Mr. Zuckerberg and you know, he's not the best guy either. So you know, Facebook's great for getting the word out, but unfortunately it's ran by a guy who's, you know, he suddenly is kissing President Trump's ass like crazy. It's unbelievable. He was at the inauguration and you know, he wants to be buddy buddy with the president and he started, he suddenly started lifting weights and he wants to pretend like he's something he's not.
Stephen K. Bannon
But he's brought out. Now our whole next segment is on Zuckerberg and Bezos and these in the, in the tech and the bros are all came around President Trump.
Scott Bessant
I would have more fun talking about that one. You know, I would like to clown more about that another day. Call me back again. But thanks for having me.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, Anthony, good to have you on here. Okay, we're gonna take a short break. Mike Davis is gonna join us. Remember, President Trump has got like the Eliot Ness crew when it comes to antitrust. If you want to break up the concentrated power in this country, you've got to break it up. It's because it's not going to do it itself. That's what President Trump at his fcc, FTC and at the Justice Department, he's collected an all star team of folks, an all star team of folks that are vehemently antitrust and, and want to make sure we get back to people. Entrepreneurs like Anthony. Right. That's the backbone of this country. The backbone of the Trump movement is entrepreneurial capitalism. Not kind of high late stage capitalism which is financialization of everything. It's one of the reasons the country is in such a, such a terrible mess. Mike Davis is going to join us in a second. We're getting ready to have a very big deal about in Rio de Janeiro for the Rio reset. You know why, given where the world's economy is going right now, the Chinese Communist Party. Dave brass going to have some, some discussion about Geneva and the Chinese Communist Party and NGOs and their efforts kind of take over the world. One of the ways they're doing it is de dollarization. Make sure you go to birchgold.com Bannon End of the Dollar Empire. We've been working on this for four years. Been putting it out for four years. It will get you up to speed in one reading of exactly what's happening. Birchgold.com Bannon End of the Dollar Empire short break. Mike Davis, the Viceroy next the April 15th tax deadline is coming and it's coming fast. Do you have unfiled tax returns? Can't pay the irs. The IRS is more than aggressive and the more aggressive than ever. And the longer you wait, the worse it gets. Wage garnishments, bank levies, even property seizures are all on the table. You need to get ahead of this. You need to get ahead of it today. But going up against the IRS alone is a big time mistake. Take my advice. Call the experts at Tax Network usa. They know the system. They have an edge. A preferred direct line to the irs. They know which agents to deal with and which ones to avoid. Whether you owe $10,000 or $10,000,000, their genius strategies are designed to quickly settle your tax problems in your favor. Tax Network USA's attorneys and negotiators have already resolved over $1 billion in tax debt. Let me repeat that. They've already resolved over $1 billion in tax debt. Tax Network USA can help you too, but you need to move. You need to move fast because April 15th is already here. Remember, if you get that letter, don't put it in the drawer. It just metastasizes. Talk with one of our strategist today. It's totally free. Stop looking over your shoulder. Stop the anxiety, stop the worry. Put it all behind you. Call Tax Network USA at 1-800-958-1000 that's 800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com Bannon that's Tax Network USA. Go to tnusa.com Bannon it was reported.
Rogan O'Hanley
This morning that Amazon will soon display a little number next to the price of each product. That shows how much the Trump tariffs are adding to the cost of each product. So isn't that a perfect crystal clear demonstration that it's the American consumer and not China who is going to have to pay for these policies?
Stephen K. Bannon
I will take this since I just got off the phone with the President about Amazon announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.
Mike Davis
Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the Highest.
Rachel Maddow
Level in 40 years?
Stephen K. Bannon
Partnered with a Chinese.
Rogan O'Hanley
Does he speak?
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, let me have it. Somehow we have a problem with the clips. Is it Caroline Levitt's putting the voodoo on things? Okay, here's what's happening. And by the way, she was dropping the hammer at the White House Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessant over there. Amazon is going to war with Trump. What they tried to do is break out tariffs on their site to say, hey, look what Trump's doing to you, American consumer. This is all about the oligarchs and taking down the oligarchs. We got a lot about Jim Jordan, etc. So, Mike Davis, where do we stand with all this? We've got a, we have a hoot. We have the best team, fcc, Andrew Ferguson, ftc, his team. You've got Gail Slater at doj, Omid, her deputy. I mean, these are stars. And we're in court. We're breaking up Google in both Northern Virginia federal court and D.C. federal court. You've got Facebook on the ropes in federal court. We're on a roll. And they tell you they're going to keep coming at you. Amazon today and hey, we got to file next week on Amazon. They're coming out to try to try to shop block President Trump's approval ratings and what he's trying to do on tariffs. Your thoughts, sir?
Anthony Constantino
Well, I think it's wonderful that Amazon is finally admitting that it's China's shopping mall. Remember, it was Amazon that actively recute, recruit, recruited these Chinese factories and companies. They sidelined US Small businesses and they chose cheap Chinese crap over America. This is the same Amazon that collaborated with the CCP censorship machine. They deleted negative reviews of Xi Jinping, they removed Bibles from their platforms at Beijing Berlin's commands, and they enforce China's censorship restrictions on the Internet. So Amazon's making it crystal clear whose side it's on. And that is China. And so it's, it's actually a good thing. I want, if Amazon's going to put on its website the cost of these tariffs, that's a pretty good sign to a merit consumer consumers that if there's a tariff cost next to an item, don't buy that item because that item was not made in America only by the items that are made in America.
Stephen K. Bannon
And look very good. Davis, Davis, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. That's so brilliant. And we get so few brilliant ideas. I'm just kidding. Give me, hit rewind. Give me that one again. I love it. What is it?
Anthony Constantino
So if there's a tariff price next to an Amazon item on their Amazon Chinese on the, on the online shopping mall for China that Amazon runs, if there's a tariff price there, don't buy it, because that means that product was, was made overseas, it was not made in America.
Stephen K. Bannon
Slave labor.
Mike Davis
Genius, genius, Viceroy, genius.
Stephen K. Bannon
Talk to us about there's a There's.
Anthony Constantino
A big article, guys twice right a day.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, no, no. Nick Sorter, a bunch of guys, Ryan Grimm have a bunch of pieces out that talk about there's some tension. Whereas President Trump, Trump has fielded an all star team. In fact, if you have to look at any part of President Trump's administration, and man, we got great guys at Defense, great guys at the intelligence agencies, all that. If you look at the quality of people he has at the Alphabet agencies and at Justice, Main justice on about breaking up oligarchs and too much concentration of power in this country. It's an all star team with amazing track record and they've worked as a team. And these are smart, good people. Why on Capitol Hill are we hearing the drumbeat, particularly from guys like Jim Jordan, who I don't say has been in the pocket of Facebook for many decades? Far be it for me to say that. I'm just saying what's out there in the ether. Why would Jim Jordan and his staff and other people be starting to say now they want to start to gut this, sir?
Anthony Constantino
Well, I used to be harshly critical of Jim Jordan because I called him big tech, Big tech show. I've come to a detente with Jim Jordan because I like him personally.
Stephen K. Bannon
But I still think Jim Jordan, Jordan's a likable guy. He'll break. No, he's a great guy. He'll break down, do the wrestling. I mean, Jordan's a great guy, but this is about principle, is it not? Mike Davis, I like Jim Jordan, but.
Anthony Constantino
He will go to the mat for big Tech. He will go to the mat for Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. I would just ask Jim Jordan, this you want. So for four years, the Biden Justice Department was politicized and weaponized to go after Trump. His top aides like Bannon and Peter Navarro who both went to the clink, maybe they deserved it, maybe not. You had January 6th supporters persecuted. You had parents, Christians persecuted. I don't remember June Jim Jordan trying to close down any Justice Department office. I don't remember him trying to close the civil Rights division that was persecuting all these Trump supporters. I don't remember him trying to shut down the D.C. u.S. Attorney's office with reconciliation. But the second these big tech platforms like meta face the FTC's lawsuit, Jim Jordan's going to the mat for them and wants to shut down the FTC DC So maybe those Trump grandmas who got thrown in the D.C. gulag for trespassing should have been wearing Facebook hoodies and Jim Jordan would have gone and saved them.
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Hey, Mike, can you hang on? Just, I know you're jammed but I just want to hold you through the break. I just want people to understand the depth of this fight and how important is it. You know, you got aoc, who's now leading, I think for the Democratic primary and Bernie Sander run around with the oligarchs tour. President Trump this week is hammering trade deals around the world. You just heard Anthony. To actually make it a level playing field for American entrepreneurs, to actually export. Number two, to bring manufacturing jobs back here so working class people can have great jobs. Number three, going through a huge tax, you know, a huge tax plan and a spending plan and still on the table because I talked to high officials and just in treasury last night said they didn't say anything about not having a potential tax cut on the, on the, on the table as Politico responded. And you've got in federal court his Justice Department FTC hammering the oligarchs and the day putting a shot across the bow of Amazon. They're trying to sell cheap CCP junk into the United States. President Trump's hitting on all cylinders. Make sure we're going to need the ramparts. Mike Davis is going to say why he's going to take a short break. Home title lock do triple one million dollar protection 247 coverage. They alert you in the middle of the night. If anybody's messing around with that title, remember that's the only contractual obligation you've got that shows you own the home. If all else fails, you get one million dollar restoration protection. Go to hometitle lock.com promo code. Steve, is that simple enough? Talk to Natalie Dominguez and the team about the triple lock $1 million protection short break. Back in a moment. There's a lot of talk about government debt, but after four years of inflation, the real crisis is personal debt. Seriously, you're working harder than ever and you're still drowning in credit card debt and overdue bills. You need Done With Debt and here's why you need it. The credit system is rigged to keep you trapped. Done With Debt has unique and frankly brilliant escape strategies to help end your debt fast so you keep more of your hard earned money. Done With Debt doesn't try to sell you a loan and they don't try to sell you a bankruptcy. They're tough negotiators that go one on one with your credit card and loan companies with one goal, to drastically reduce your bills and eliminate interest and erase penalties. Most clients end up with more money in their pocket month one and they don't stop until they break you free from debt permanently. Look, take a couple of minutes and visit donewithdebt.com talk with one of their strategists. It's free, but listen up. Some of their solutions are time sensitive so you'll need to move quickly. Go to donewithdebt.com that's donewithdebt.com Stop the anxiety, stop the angst. Go to donewithdebT.com and do it today. Hey War Room.
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Summary of Bannon's War Room Episode 4447: "Countdown To Trump's First 100 Days; Amazon Turns On Trump Admin"
Release Date: April 29, 2025
In Episode 4447 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon engages in a spirited discussion surrounding President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, the administration's economic policies, particularly tariffs on China, and significant developments involving major corporations like Amazon turning against the Trump administration. The episode features contributions from political commentator Rachel Maddow, business leaders Anthony Constantino and Scott Bessant, and guest Rogan O'Hanley. Below is a detailed breakdown of the key topics covered, enriched with notable quotes and timestamps for reference.
The episode opens with Rachel Maddow delivering a scathing critique of President Trump's initial 100 days, labeling it as "the most disastrous first hundred days of any president since the dawn of modern polling" (00:00). Maddow argues that Trump's policies have universally failed to gain public approval across various metrics.
In response, Stephen K. Bannon counters Maddow's criticism by lauding Trump’s achievements. He states, “In the first 100 days than I've done in my 38-year career” (02:35), emphasizing the extensive actions taken by the Trump administration. Bannon praises Trump's openness, saying, “He lets the American people into those rooms. We get to observe the questions and the answers, know what they're doing” (02:41), highlighting the administration's transparency.
A significant portion of the episode delves into Trump's economic strategies, especially the imposition of tariffs on China. Scott Bessant, serving as the Treasury Secretary, explains the rationale behind the tariffs: “I believe that it's up to China to de-escalate because they sell five times more to us than we sell to them. And so these 125, 145% tariffs are unsustainable” (01:25).
Anthony Constantino, a small businessman, echoes support for Trump's tariff policies, asserting, “President Trump, you know, MSNBC, CNN this morning are hammering him, saying he's losing small businessmen. All these polls are going the wrong way. We had Rasmussen on it, said it's all a psyop, that people still like the policies” (36:26). Constantino highlights the benefits of Trump's aggressive negotiation stance: “President Trump's fighting to stop that. There's no such thing as a negotiation where you just say, hey, can you please stop your tariffs” (36:52).
Rachel Maddow forecasts that the Trump administration might resort to extreme measures to alter the political landscape. She warns, “They're now deporting U.S. citizens. You can't deport a U.S. citizen. U.S. citizens are from here. There's nowhere to deport them to” (01:40). Maddow suggests that such reckless actions could lead to "visibly more horrible" events in the future, further destabilizing Trump's political standing.
In contrast, Stephen K. Bannon dismisses these predictions, maintaining confidence in Trump's leadership: “He's got the stomach for it and we just got to be behind him 100%” (03:10).
Guest Rogan O'Hanley discusses the Trump administration's challenges with the judiciary and illegal immigration. He advocates for extreme measures such as suspending habeas corpus for illegal aliens, citing constitutional provisions during emergencies:
“It explicitly allows for such a measure. When there is a rebellion or invasion, there are strong precedents from presidents like Abraham Lincoln... all three used it against American citizens, where in this instance we would only be using it against illegal aliens” (18:18).
O'Hanley draws parallels to historical presidencies, arguing that such actions would place Trump among "historical president category." He emphasizes the necessity of these measures to maintain the rule of law and protect national integrity.
A central theme of the episode is the Trump administration's intensified efforts to tackle monopolistic practices among major tech companies. Stephen K. Bannon describes the administration’s antitrust initiatives as an "all-star crew," comparing it to "Elliot Ness's Untouchables":
“President Trump has the most. This is the way you destroy the oligarchs. The way you destroy the oligarchs is with action at the FTC, the FCC, the Justice Department right now have the equivalent of Elliot Ness's Untouchables” (10:03).
Lucid efforts to dismantle the concentrated power in companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook are highlighted, with ongoing lawsuits and regulatory actions aiming to promote competitive markets and reduce barriers for small businesses.
An unexpected turn in the episode is Amazon’s announcement to display tariff costs next to product prices, signifying the direct impact of Trump’s tariffs on consumers. Rogan O'Hanley comments on this move as a clear stance against the Trump administration: “Amazon is going to war with Trump. What they tried to do is break out tariffs on their site to say, hey, look what Trump's doing to you, American consumer” (45:11).
Anthony Constantino praises Amazon’s transparency: “If there's a tariff price next to an Amazon item... don't buy that item because that item was not made in America” (48:23). This development is portrayed as a pivotal moment in the administration’s economic battle against big tech and foreign competition.
As the episode progresses, Stephen K. Bannon reinforces the administration’s ongoing strategies and upcoming initiatives:
“President Trump's hammering trade deals around the world... and we're breaking up Google in both Northern Virginia federal court and D.C. federal court” (50:11).
The hosts express optimism about the continued dismantling of monopolistic entities and the restoration of American manufacturing and economic independence. They also touch upon potential geopolitical strategies and further antitrust actions scheduled for the next phase of Trump’s presidency.
Rachel Maddow (00:00): "No president has ever botched the first hundred days more badly than Donald Trump has botched it."
Stephen K. Bannon (02:35): "In the first 100 days than I've done in my 38-year career."
Scott Bessant (01:25): "These 125, 145% tariffs are unsustainable."
Anthony Constantino (36:52): "President Trump's fighting to stop that."
Rogan O'Hanley (18:18): "There is a very big kind of goal here, and I think it would put Trump in the historical president category."
Anthony Constantino (48:23): "If there's a tariff price next to an Amazon item... don't buy that item because that item was not made in America."
Episode 4447 of Bannon's War Room presents a robust defense of President Trump's early administration actions, countering critiques with strong support from business leaders and aligned commentators. The discussions emphasize the administration's commitment to economic nationalism, aggressive trade policies, and regulatory actions against major tech conglomerates. As Amazon's recent stance underscores the tangible impacts of Trump's policies, the episode sets the stage for ongoing debates and strategic moves in the coming months of Trump's presidency.