
Episode 4544: Populists Rally In Ireland; Rosanne LIVE In The WarRoom ...
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Stephen K. Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Reasons I 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. And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
Joe Allen
MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.
Stephen K. Bannon
I wish that any of these had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
Joe Allen
War ROOM here's your host, Stephen k. Banner.
Stephen K. Bannon
Saturday the 7th of June, year of our Lord 2025. Let's go back to Kevin Posobic. It's beginning to have. It begins in Ireland. Finally the Irish are waking up. Kevin Bosovic, you've got actually a politician there. Make sure. Let's get some, let's get some answers from him. Sir. Okay, yeah, we're back down in front.
Kevin O'Sullivan
Of city council court here and I'm.
Stephen K. Bannon
Here with Maliki Stevenson.
Kevin O'Sullivan
Hi, Steve, great to talk to you again.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hey, good to see you, sir. Go talk to me. What is this uprising in Ireland? Is this, is this, it's not the Eastern 1916 uprising, but is this the beginning of Ireland taking its sovereignty back?
Kevin O'Sullivan
Well, it's the same issue that we had in 1916, just this time we don't have an armed force take back control. We're doing this through peaceful ways. I mean, the main issue in 1916 was the sovereignty of our people and to take that sovereignty away from Britain and give it to the Irish people. Now we have to take that sovereignty away from the European Union and put it back in the hands of the Irish people. There's almost 95% of laws that are passed in this country emanate in Brussels and that's not something that's acceptable. The whole immigration pact that we're now forced to abide by will destroy this country and that has been brought in from Europe. All of the things that were continually sold in this country about our international obligations. Any government's obligations are to its own people. Before then you're at phone free. And we want them to sponsor a government or an establishment who will put its own people first and who will look after the people here. What we want is an Ireland where people can get a house, where they can buy one or get one on social bills, where they can get health care when they need it, where their children can get an education without being indoctrinated or without having to.
Stephen K. Bannon
But, but, but we understand, we understand the problems and Irish people understand them. The difference in 1916 you've been, you were ruled by an Anglo Irish aristocracy that were kind of put in, I guess Cromwell's people were put in here. Correct me if I'm wrong, you're sold out by Irishmen who are basically closer to people in Brussels but closer to people in Brussels than they are to the Irish people. Sir.
Kevin O'Sullivan
Well, we have never had to rely on partners to sell us out. We've enough people in this country who are prepared to do it and take the king shilling years ago are now take the European shilling and they have no hesitation. But I mean the Prime Minister of this country, the Taoiseach, me and Omar not so long ago described the Irish race as mongrels. I mean I'm not a mongrel, I'm a thoroughbred. And when you have a political class who believes that its own people are inferior and that they should be put behind every other nation that comes into this country. And I mean there are thousands of people come into this country seeking asylum. 30,000 the record this year. Huge bu of them are coming from the UK and a huge bu have no identifying documents when they got off a plane. Coupled with that, we have over 100,000 people on work and many of them are coming in and you know, to staff our hospitals and to staff our low paid jobs and taxis and Uber studio, all of, all of those things. And you know it's one thing that I can, I fail to understand is how to left who claim to be there to protect workers and workers rights and workers standards of living are intent on repopulating the country with people on the lowest of the low levels of employment working for the minimum wage. I mean that seems to me to be totally contradictory to what they say their position is. But as we know, the left in this country as in America is just controlled by the liberals.
Stephen K. Bannon
They want to break, they want to break the Irish people. I love the phrase you're not a mongol, you're a thoroughbred. Where can people. You're not a mongrel, you're a thoroughbred. I love that. Where can people watch your social media? How can people keep up with what's going on in Ireland? Because we're people in a great awakening.
Kevin O'Sullivan
Yeah. If you go on to, to multi scenes and on X or any of those channels, follow it on, you get all the links in those we will send you all the links to stick up there because this is a grown movement. And, you know, we're very thankful to the international media, particularly who follow us. We get more coverage from international media, in fact, than we do from the Irish media. And the coverage we get from the Irish media emanates initially from the international media, particularly our friends in the United States who are, you know, 100% behind us.
Stephen K. Bannon
You've got another one in two weeks.
Kevin O'Sullivan
We, yeah, we had, we had a big rally in Dublin on the 26th of April. 50,000 people there. And what, what was striking about that was the good nature of the. The rally as opposed to the. The show and the vitriol coming from the opposition was the fact that it was a sea of tricolours here today. It was a sea of trifler that it was. In two weeks time, on the 22nd of April, Sunday the 22nd of June, we have another major valley in Dollar where we expect to double the numbers we had on. And again, it would be a sea of trifles. What we're taking back is our flag from this state. We're taking back our nation, but we're taking back our government.
Stephen K. Bannon
Amen. Well, we will cover. We will make a commitment now to send Paso Big back over there and cover. Cover wall to wall on the 22nd of June. Sir, you're a patriot and a hero. Keep the fight up. We got your back. And we will actually provide even more coverage than we've already done. So thank you so much for joining us today.
Kevin O'Sullivan
That's great, Steve. Thanks very much for giving us the time.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, brother. I love that. I'm not a mongrel, I'm a thoroughbred. Okay. He looks like an Irishman, doesn't he? Grace and Mo, if you can, you can, you can push that out. It would be great. And we'll go back to Kevin Vasova. We're kind of jammed right now. I've got. I had some thoughts about artificial intelligence last night in my closing remarks. Let's go ahead and play it. And I'm gonna bring in Joe Allen. Then we've got Tage Gill, Captain Fennell, Ben Harwell, the global Third World War. We're going to cover it all. And we still got a special guest. Let's go and play the cold open for Joe Allen. I'll bring Joe in. God has chosen you to live in a time when the singularity is going to happen. Think about that. The most important thing that's happened to Homo sapiens and done not by People that believe in the tenets of the Judeo Christian west, right? It's going to happen. And it could happen in the next 18 months. It could happen in the next two years. It could happen in the next three years. It's part of this bill. MTG will talk to you tomorrow about just one small part of it and you're going to get criticized. You're a decelerationist, you're a redneck. You don't understand. This is the worst of maga. No, they're going to call us everything. This is the worst of maga, right? They're uneducated, they want to take down the Ivy League. They want to kill science and engineering. Nothing could be farther from the truth. But we're not prepared to allow a bunch of nine year olds to work with this advanced technology, unregulated or untouched, and let them to develop what's going to be developed. Not going to happen. We have no earthly idea what's going on. Not just in artificial intelligence. You have no earthly idea what's going on in CRISPR and biotechnology or advanced robotics or advanced copy quantum mechanics, quantum computing. The five things that converge that the Chinese Communist Party 15 years ago said made in China 2025, the top five that they were going to dominate are what is leads to the singularity. These people aren't stupid. So you have a lot on your shoulders, right? That's exactly what God chose you to be here. You're going to get weighed and measured and if you stand up, if you commit tonight, if you think about this and you commit and I mean all in like you have through the dark days ahead and put sometimes our differences aside and say we got a unifying back of this guy. He's the one shot we have, right? We're going to be victorious. Okay, last night, and that goes to this audience too, why you've been chosen for a time like this. Let's, let's go to Joe Allen. Joe, you got some real thoughts about this? Walk me through it, sir.
Joe Allen
Steve, you know, people have been talking a lot about the tragedy of this split between Musk and Trump. I think it is fantastic news. There couldn't have been anything worse than this fusion ideologically and politically between MAGA and the so called tech right or just the entirety of the tech sector. Pushing forward artificial intelligence, pushing forward robotics and ultimately pushing forward the greater replacement of white and blue collar workers. So this split tells us two things. One, it shows us that transhumanists are all too human. You see Musk melting down the guy can't even transcend basic pettiness, basic human spite and temper tantrums. So what we've got, you know, people were really kind of terrified over the last year. And myself, I mean, it bothered me too. What happens if our one real bulwark of resistance politically against the kind of transhumanist and posthumanist tech oligarchs basically allies with them and then we're just in a monolith. But I think what this shows us with Trump and Musk is that the system is always unstable and alliances can always shift. And this is not an unbreachable fortress. And I think we're going to make it. I think enough of us will make it.
Stephen K. Bannon
Then is to be done. You've got this issue now with the 10 year. You get the issue with the 10 year. You know, they want to do away federalism or states rights on anything doing with artificial intelligence. There's many more of these funding programs that people have not looked at. They're essentially funding artificial intelligence that we don't really understand what's going on. Look, artificial intelligence definitely has huge upside. Nobody's arguing that. But the downside, you know, it's got also potentially unlimited downside. Are there enough eyeballs on this right now, Joe Allen, particularly now that the other part of that bill besides the 10 years, it incorporates everything in the EOS, it codifies it into law, about the US government's going to essentially turn the entire government over to artificial intelligence.
Joe Allen
On that note, the right now there's been some developments with the 10 year moratorium. So there's been an argument in the Senate as to whether or not it passes the Byrd rule, which basically stipulates that non budgetary items can't be included in the reconciliation bill. And so the Commerce Committee, Republicans, Ted Cruz basically are trying to add a provision that would tie the ban on states regulating AI to the broadband expansion program that's been going since 2021. And so if a state then were to regulate away AI, they would no longer be eligible for the broadband expansion program, which is right now also being directed towards expanding AI infrastructure. The kinds of things like the data centers being built by Project Stargate in Abilene, the massive colossus data center in Memphis. And so they're tying it to money. They're holding the money over their heads. And Josh Hawley always to his credit is leading a charge and cooperating with Democrats in order to do so to get this struck from the bill.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, it's going to be a big area of debate. We need a debate on this. We need a public debate. Joe, where do you go? Because you're organizing kind of all the information so people can get a one stop shop hopefully. Where do folks go?
Joe Allen
Go to joebot XYZ at J O E B O T X Y Z on media, social, social media heading across country right now. Updates incoming. Thank you very much, Steve.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay brother. Look, we don't want to lay another burden on you given all the fights we've got. But this is why divine providence chose you. You to be in this time and place, to be part of this move. This is a gut check for this is about your agency and about you. If you decide and make the commitment, you're all in. It's impossible for us to lose. It's that simple. The resilience of this movement is the resilience that's been shown to the American people at its finest down through the ages from Lexington and Concord. And I want you to think about it. Next Sunday is the 10th anniversary of President Trump coming down the Golden Escalator. I want you to think about your life and what you were doing 10 years ago and your awakening. It's one of the most powerful things in the history of the earth, the awakening of the American people to reality. I got a short break going talking about the third World War next. This July there is a global summit of BRICS nations in Rio de Janeiro. The bloc of emerging superpowers including China, Russia, India and Persia are meeting with the goal of displacing the United States dollar as the global currency. They're calling this the Rio Reset. As BRICS nations push forward with their plans, global demand for US dollars will decrease, bringing down the value of the dollar in your savings. While this transition won't not happen overnight, but trust me, it's going to start in Rio. The Rio Reset in July marks a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move decisively from a theoretical possibility towards inevitable reality. Learn if diversifying your savings into gold is right for you. Birch Gold Group can help you move your hard earned savings into a tax sheltered IRA and precious metals. Claim your free info kit on gold by texting my name Bannon. That's B A N N o N to 989-898 with an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers. Let Birchgold army with a free no obligation info kit on owning gold before July and the Rio reset. Text Bannon B A N N O N to 9,898 98 do it today. That's the Rio reset. Text Bannon at 989-898 and do it today.
Taj Gill
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, one of the burdens President Trump has, he's trying to, as I said last night in George, Georgia, he's trying to stop the kinetic part of the Third World War. And, folks, when this thing spins out of control, you're going to remember the warnings people had. And President Trump's trying to do it. Let's go. I want to go to the kinetic part first in this historic what happened this week historically. Taj. Gil, walk me through the combat side of what's happening in this slugfest between Ukraine and Russia. Sir. First.
Taj Gill
Yeah, I was out of town last week and I wanted to chime in on this Ukraine attack on the Russian airfields, on the strategic bombers. This, this was a utility intelligence operation. It wasn't a special operations, wasn't a military special operations, it was an intelligence special operation. We used to train when I was in the field teams, we used to train with the CIA a lot. And this has them written all over it, either British MI6, the American CIA, and we've talked about before, the Ukrainian SBU, their intelligence service has basically, basically become a proxy intelligence service for the CIA and MI6. The shipping containers that house the drones, they had a false ceiling. That's what we call that, is a false ceiling in there. So when you open the shipping containers and look inside, it looks like an actual ceiling of the shipping container. And then in the top, that it would be called a false compartment up top and a hidden compartment. That's where the drones were housed.
Stephen K. Bannon
And.
Taj Gill
They did this with plausible deniability. They said they've been, this mission has been on the books for 18 months or two years. And I do believe that, I do believe that Trump was not informed about this mission. So they, they, the MI6 and CIA, I believe, were behind this operation. And this was planned a long time ago. There's tons of missions like this. They, they plan these missions and they, and they, they just go on to the, the back burner and then they can use them when possible. You know, they wouldn't have to inform Trump or ask permission for something like this.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on.
Taj Gill
So that I understand you actually, you.
Stephen K. Bannon
You'Ve worked, Sorry, you've worked on these things before. You're saying out of Vist, Biden, Germany, this thing came out of. Do you have any direct evidence? I understand you've done it before. It has every indication of it. We understand you're one Hundred percent correct. And many other people that have worked in Special Ops, like yourselves in intel and paramilitary, have confirmed that. But do you have anything specific about this raid? You're saying the car, the containers and all that is it the target act? Was, is any way they could have done the target acquisition without satellite help, sir?
Taj Gill
No, they needed satellite help for the, for the actual drones. They needed a downlink and uplink to fly those drones. And I've seen reports saying that, that a bunch of drones missed their targets because they had a crappy uplink and downlink for the satellites. But they usually use Starlink, and I don't think they use Starlink on this operation. So they the easiest, either cell cellular or a satellite transmission for these drones. And this, this has the Department of Science and Technology from the CIA written all over it. They do these very crafty things, these operations. And if you watch, if you're, if you watch James Bond movies, you'll see like Q, they give James Bond all these crazy instruments. It's the same, that's the same department that I believe created these shipping containers with the hidden drones in them. It's, it's got it written all over it.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, hang on for a second. Hang on a second. Well, Mertz came, the Chancellor came on Thursday, was overwhelmed by the Elon situation. Give me the political update is a peace talk, cease fire. That's all off the table. This is now back to a slugfest.
Ben Harnwell
Well, it depends which angle you want to look at it, Steve. And good morning to you. On the one hand, talking about these peace talks is that they've never really been off the table, at least in terms of the theater. These talks have been ongoing. There was a possibility when Ukraine launched its largest drone attack on the nuclear triad to date, the day before the talks. The second round of talks were supposed to be held, were in fact held in Istanbul. There was talk in some quarters that Russia would pull out. Russia didn't pull out. And one of the reasons for this, Steve, is because Russia really isn't at this stage in the war, interested in having peace talks. It has some territorial gains. It continues to want to solidify. So the talks are still ongoing on that point with regard to the new German Chancellor, the Reichs Councilor Friedrich Merz in the White House on Thursday. Look, some people thought that Trump was President Trump was going to lay down the law to him. In fact, that really wasn't the case. It wasn't the, I think the Germans, the Europeans widely thought that the meeting was a success. That's probably because the day before you had this huge falling out between President Trump and Elon Musk. That was very much, it was easy even in some of the questions in the Oval Office in front of Friedrich Merz, who's very much not the center of the news cycle on Thursday. But one thing, Steve, one thing that I will draw up from that meeting is that Mertz was very cunning in a certain sense, intelligent cunning. Play it how you will. He said to Trump. He reassured Trump that the Europeans and NATO were going to be pulling more weight in terms of defense and that he said that they were going to rise.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hega said, pulling your weights. 5%. Did he give any indication because they fought us for the 2% in the first term, they give any indication they're going to 5% of GDP?
Ben Harnwell
Yeah, I think they did actually. Yes, they did say that. But. And one of the reasons that Mertz had the liberty to say that was I think, probably, I think before he was actually sworn in formally, parliament had part. The German parliament had passed a law abolishing the debt cap, the historic debt cap that that had existed in Germany from the Second World War. Exactly. So now they can have unlimited borrowing. So on once I close on this point, Steve, the, the, the importance of what the German maneuver is is that they said that they're going to be continuing to rely on the United States. You can read that in two ways. You can either read that in terms of American taxpayer dollars and blood to guarantee Europe's security, or you can just sort of go a bit deeper on that and suggest that really what Metz is saying to Trump here is that with this increased defense expenditure it in Germany, they will be buying more US Produced arms, which is obviously something President Trump wants to see.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, hang over a second, Captain Fennell. Of course, the anniversary of Midway, this is the last day of fighting. You're saying, hey, don't we're losing the plot here a little bit because the ultimate focus has got to be the Chinese Communist Party. You're in the western Pacific. Your thoughts, sir?
Captain Fennell
Yeah, well, thanks for having me on, Steve. And yes, today is the final day of the four day battle, three day battle from June 4th to June 7th that occurred 83 years ago in the Pacific at Midway. And I like to use this quote from James Schlesinger from 22 years ago. He said Midway was far more than a decisive naval victory. It was far more than the turning of the tide in the Pacific War. In a strategic sense, Midway represents one of the great turning points of world history. And in that role, the battle remains unappreciated. And I'm here to tell you, 22 years later, it remains unappreciated. When he said that there were no threats from China like we see today. So in the last 30 years, China's doubled, more than doubled the size of their Navy, while ours was cut in half. There's a. A graphic from actual Commander Eddie Layton, who was the Pacific Fleet Intelligence Director back for Admiral Nimitz. And this is his recap that he gave to Admiral Nimitz. A copy of. It's in Pearl harbor in Makalapa today, but that's an exact copy of what he reported on. And you can see the expanse of the Pacific. You can't even see the West Coast. You know, The Pacific is 28% of the Earth's surface, almost 30%, and it is 15 times the size of the United States. So people don't really understand the vast expanse of the Pacific. And what China has been doing for 30 years is building a military that is designed to dominate the world's oceans. And they're slowly and slowly been building it up. And they are now the dominant naval force in the Western Pacific, and they're expanding out their operations. And we have neglected our Navy. While the Chinese Navy doubled, ours was cut in half. And I know we were talking about AI and how that can be useful in some of these things, just like intelligence was to help us win at Midway. But we also need to recognize that, in a sense, we need raw kinetic power. And so we need to get back to the idea of building a Navy.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on.
Captain Fennell
Getting the Navy in the Pacific to deter what could be a catastrophic, devastating blow to the United States.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, look, both of us are Pacific Fleet sailors, so folks will say, hey, these guys are biased because they were raised informed in the 7th Fleet in the Pacific Fleet. So they've got this natural East Asia, Asian Mahanian bias. We got a trillion dollar defense budget right now. Correct me if I'm wrong, Captain Fennell, I don't see a lot of naval shipbuilding in that. What do you cut? What do you. What do you not do in order to get a significant. A significant fleet like Reagan did? We went from. I think I got in, it was 250 ships to build a 600 ship navy. Give me 30 seconds after we go to break and I'll bring you back after break. What do you cut?
Captain Fennell
We gotta draw down our ground forces and our Marine forces. They were exploded after 9, 11. And I don't wish them any harm, but they don't need. We're not fighting a land war in Asia. We're not going to fight a land war in Europe. So let's refocus our resources. We have resources in the Atlantic that can move and we have ships that have been decommissioned. Maybe we need to restore some of those. And we can use some of our allies and partners in Asia to homeport some of our ships. We need to move the fleet forward like they did in 1950.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hang over a second. And you go with Trump's hemispheric defense from Greenland and the Arctic down, block the Soviet submarines to the Panama Canal to stop the PLA Navy from joining up with the Russians. It makes sense. Short commercial break. We're back in a moment on the Third World War. One day. If you're a homeowner, you need to listen to this. In today's AI and cyber world, scammers are stealing home titles with more ease than ever. And your equity is the target. Here's how it works. Criminals forge your signature on one document, use a fake notary stamp, pay small fee with your county, and boom. Your home title has been transferred out of your name. Then they take out loans using your equity or even sell your property. You won't even know it's happened until you get a collection or foreclosure foreclosure notice. So let me ask you, when was the last time you personally checked your home title? If you're like me, the answer is never. And that's exactly what scammers are counting on. That's why I trust home title lock. Use promo code steve@hometitlek.com to make sure your title is still in your name. You also get a free title history report plus a free 14 day trial of their million dollar triple lock protection. That's 247 monitoring of your title, urgent alerts to any changes, and if fraud should happen, they'll spend up to $1 million to fix it. Go to hometitleock.com now. Use promo code Steve. That's hometitle lock.com promo code Steve. Do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Okay, Taj, sell me some product here, brother. And I'm, I'm gonna make you commit. You're gonna come back next week and put some meat on the bone on the situation about intel. And I understand your special forces and you work 16 tours with the CIA and all that, but I want to have some specificity next week. You'll commit to that, brother?
Taj Gill
Yes, sir. Yep. I'll be back Next week.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Stephen K. Bannon
Yep. Okay, we got a bounce. You're coming back though, Monday or Tuesday. You're going to put some meat on the bone on this. I'm going to hold you to this on this. CIA, MI6 involvement in Ukraine, the bombing. Okay, Captain, for now, we're going to wall to wall coverage next Saturday on the 250th anniversary of the United States Army, Sir. All day with President Trump, the parade, the fireworks, all of it. You're dumping on the Army? You're telling me. Hey, we got to. We got to. We got to downsize the army in our beloved Marine Corps to build up more Navy ships. I'm holding you to it. I need a column out of you and an analysis with numbers. Not happy talk because you don't give happy talk to back up that we got to take this trillion dollar budget and repurpose it for hemispheric defense and particularly for building up the United States Navy. Is that a commitment, Captain Fennell?
Captain Fennell
Yes, sir. I can do that.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, maybe over the weekend. I'll talk to others. I want to break down the strategic importance of the battle of Midway. What celesting just said 22 years ago and still is effective today about the vast Pacific being the strategic pivot of the United States of America. Captain Fennell, you'll be up on American greatness.
Joel Gilbert
Sir.
Captain Fennell
Yep. I'll put together something and have that for. For that column.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, brother.
Captain Fennell
There's a lot of us out there that understand this and we'll work together on it.
Stephen K. Bannon
I agree with you. We've got to make our case. And they're going to say you're biased. Abandoned and fanell a bunch of Pacific Fleet 7th Fleet sailors. They got the bias. We got to get beyond the bias. We're just not pro Navy. Right. We're not anti Army. Mo went to West Point. We love the army, particularly on its 250th anniversary, the birthday of it. This Saturday, President Trump one of the biggest military parades in the history, I think since the Grand Army Review after the the Civil War. This Saturday, we're going to have wall to wall coverage. 12 hours. Thank you, Captain. For now, Ben Harnwell, social media, you're going to have everything up about the Russian, Ukraine war, the slugfest, sir.
Ben Harnwell
I will, Steve. And tomorrow I'll be publishing on, on my get account which is folks at Harnwell, simply my surname at Harnwell, I'll be pushing out an article, an interview I had with La Stampa, which is a major Italian newspaper today. I close with this observation, Steve. When met sat down with Trump in the Oval Office, Trump came out with this expression that basically Ukraine and Russia are two kids fighting in the park. Let them fight at it. I will add to that as I give back to you. As I give way to you, Steve, I will add to that point. One of these kids is the largest military industrial complex the world has ever known. The other is the most nuclear armed country that the world has ever known. America needs to disengage from this war right now. Thanks, Steve. God bless.
Stephen K. Bannon
Amen, brother. Appreciate you. And we're going to, we're going to push your content all weekend. Thank you. From Rome, from Switzerland, we did it. From Ireland, we still got Kevin Bosovic may go back there. One of my favorite people is in the war room. This is a big day for us.
Roseanne Barr
Thank you.
Stephen K. Bannon
Roseanne Barr, how did you wander into the war room today?
Roseanne Barr
Well, he brought me Joe Giller, my.
Stephen K. Bannon
Favorite filmmaker by the way, has made some explosive, explosive films. He's made a film about you?
Roseanne Barr
Yes, he made a film about me and I really love it. It's just a wonderful film and it was a great experience and I finally got to really open up and tell what happened to me and well talk.
Stephen K. Bannon
We got a trailer. We want people to go online and get the film and watch the entire thing. But you're kind of an American icon. So what happened to you?
Roseanne Barr
Yes, I am.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, you're definitely American icon because you're a truth teller. You're kind of that grit and tenacity that makes America so great. No, give up. You're a fighter. So what happened?
Roseanne Barr
I was born a fighter for sure. My mom says that when I was born, all the other little babies were sleeping soundly in their little incubators. And one loud voice was screaming all the time. And they went down there to look at me and I was trying to eat both my fists. I wasn't never getting enough to eat, which carried on in life. And they had to put me in a little tiny baby straight jacket to keep me from trying to eat.
Stephen K. Bannon
To keep your hands around?
Roseanne Barr
Yeah. Like my mom says, I was like this and I was just screaming bloody murder.
Stephen K. Bannon
Now they did that in the old days, but they say today that would give like psychological problems.
Roseanne Barr
Well, it probably did. It made me even more mad. And you know, they can't contain me. She was, you said I was always like that. And my first word was no. And my first sentence was shut up, shithead. Because I had a 15 year old uncle who taught me all the dirty words.
Stephen K. Bannon
Talk about your family, your mom. Where are you from?
Roseanne Barr
Well, I'm from Salt Lake City, Utah. And as I open the film, I say, because God has a sense of humor, he's the funniest. I was born in an Orthodox Jewish family in Salt Lake City, Utah, of course, and it was a weird upbringing. My grandparents owned a tenement apartment house where I was raised.
Stephen K. Bannon
How did they get to Utah? Where did they come from?
Roseanne Barr
My grandmother came from Lithuania and she and two sisters made it to the United States. One sister went to Israel during World War II. And they, they came here as. My grandmother was a music student and she came to study music. Their family sent them away during the war and they found out later that their entire village had been murdered by Nazis. And so that's how she got here. Went to Kansas City and then to Salt Lake where there was a music academy. And my grandfather was born in the United States States and Kansas City also, and came and opened a kosher butcher shop in Utah. And so they served, you know, all the intermountain states with kosher meat. And my grandmother was the first woman butcher west of the, whatever it was, Mississippi. And so that's where I grew up. And they also spent sponsored a lot of Jewish people refugees from the camps. And I grew up in the apartment house with people who had numbers on their arms. And they told me that was their phone numbers. But I entertained the family every Friday night for Shabbat dinner. My grandmother had a window seat in her house and that was where I performed my impressions of Shabbat Shirley Temple. And my family assured me that I was more talented and beautiful than Shirley Temple. And of course I believed them. And it was devastating to me. At age about 9 when I got out in the world and no one believed, besides myself that I was better and more talented than Shirley Temple.
Stephen K. Bannon
But that belief took you somewhere.
Roseanne Barr
Well, it was devastating that nobody believed it but my family. And it made me very angry at my family that they had lied to me like that. And so I thought, I'm going to have to restructure my entire life in order to become the new Shirley Temple. And then I realized my singing dancing wasn't that great, but I could be funny. My family was very funny. So I thought, well, I'll reach the heights of stardom with comedy rather than singing and dancing.
Stephen K. Bannon
And so that arc led you to be one of the biggest stars of television.
Roseanne Barr
Well, my family was really funny and my dad specifically was very funny and he wanted to be a stand up comic. So he would always instruct me on Ed Sullivan's show when a comic came on. If I had behaved myself, I could watch Ed Sullivan comics with, with my dad and he would explain comedy and he made me a comic really. And I, I just took it for granted that I could be funny. But I, I wanted to be a serious writer. My mom wanted to be a journalist too. And so I would always write things and they would turn out ridiculous and funny and I would be kind of ashamed that I wasn't a real intellectual and always end up stupid and funny. And I was ashamed of it till I was later in my 20s and I went, I'd always be making smart remarks and I was a cocktail waitress and the people there, they would say, you should. One guy, he said, you should go down to the comedy place. They just opened downtown. And then it was like bong, bong hitting the head. Oh my God, I'm gonna be a stand up comic. I was 28 and I did. And the first time I went on stage there, I worked for a year to write five minutes of comedy. And then the day I premiered there went on. I just killed. And I knew I had. The thought I had was, I'm getting the Eddie Murphy money, I'm gonna get out of poverty and all that good stuff. And then so I went back the second time with a lot of confidence and died a dog's death and got banned from the club. And then I had to, you know, like chase the dragon when you're on heroin. So I had to do all these other things to make it back to the stage. I had to work in Unitarian lesbian coffee houses and biker club clubs and jazz bars and universities and, you know, I just did whatever because I had the Bug, you know, I had the bacteria and all of my grandchildren now have it. I have 10 grandchildren and they all want to be comics. And I can see they got the bacteria, too.
Stephen K. Bannon
Joe, why is the film called Roseanne Barr is America? Why is it? Why is she. Because you're one of the, you're one of the most controversial filmmakers in the country. You and I have worked together for years. You've made some of those controversial films about Obama, Michelle Obama, all of Hillary Clinton. Name it. Joel Gilbert Sayer, why do you now pick a topic like her and say she is America?
Joel Gilbert
Look, when I met Roseanne, I realized that no one had really put together her entire story, and that includes her upbringing. No one really knows a whole lot about it. Growing up with Holocaust survivors, survivors in Utah, in Mormontown, and how she kind of rose to stardom. And then you might recall that they rebooted her show in 2018, and after one year she had created a character who was a Trump supporter on the show.
Stephen K. Bannon
Right.
Joel Gilbert
And she was a Trump supporter in real life. So the real story of how the media and the Democrats.
Stephen K. Bannon
But then she got. Can you got canceled because of that.
Joel Gilbert
That's right. Well, what happened is they were trying. They had a narrative that they wanted to show that Trump's supporters were racist. That was the narrative they were pushing. And Roseanne put out a very funny political tweet about how she thought since Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran that the Muslim Brotherhood and the, you know, the Planet of the Apes movie, which is about taking over the world, would be. The result would be Valerie Jarrett. It's a pretty funny tweet. And of course, they said, well, and Roseanne talks about this in the film. They said, well, no, we know what you meant. Did you know that Valerie Jarrett was 10% black? She said, no. Well, we think you meant that was because it was a racist tweet. So other comedians like Whoopi Goldberg, Samantha Bee made vile, anti Semitic and racist comments. And because they were on the left, they were quickly forgiven. Well, you didn't mean that they could apologize. No problem with Roseanne. They targeted her and said, oh, well, we know what you meant. You meant because Valerie Jarrett, she's actually black, even though she said she looks white and she's from Iran. So they canceled her. And that was the. She was kind of the first and biggest victim of cancel culture, which is a tool.
Stephen K. Bannon
She's the biggest star ever to be cancelled.
Joel Gilbert
She was a. Cancel culture is kind of a tool of the left. So you learn about that in the film. I think for the first time Roseanne puts together together the entire story and you realize what a great patriot and iconic figure she is and where she came from. And that's why I said the best title is Roseanne Barr Is America.
Stephen K. Bannon
Let's let's take a short commercial break. When we return, we got a trailer from the film Roseanne Barr is America. We're honored to have Roseanne Barr and Joel Gilbert in the war room on a Saturday morning. Short commercial break.
Taj Gill
Back in a moment.
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Roseanne Barr
Cause I'm a housewife. I want to be called domestic goddess. O say can you see, since God has an incredible sense of humor. I was born as an orthodox Jewish girl in Salt Lake City, Utah. Of course, by the dawn's early life, when I was three, I saw this vision. He said, you will one day have your own show on tv and it will be the Roseanne show at the Twilight's last gleaming. Quickly, I learned in television that the worst thing you can do do on a comedy show is write a funny joke. They hate that.
Joe Allen
For the ramparts we watched American Dragons.
Roseanne Barr
You're going to get killed.
Joe Allen
And the Rock Cats, Red Blood.
Roseanne Barr
For me constantly, comedy's always been political. So I thought, man, I can give a hell of a speech. And I thought, that's all there is to being president, really. I will walk right up to Nancy Pelosi and slap her right across the face.
Stephen K. Bannon
Is America. We're gonna have a world premiere at the National Press Club. Pretty hoity toity.
Roseanne Barr
Pretty hoity.
Stephen K. Bannon
Not bad for a Jewish girl from Salt Lake City in the nation's capital. And Joel Gilbert. Those two. Good God. I'm surprised that girl called the National Guard.
Roseanne Barr
And I have to say that our, our my dear friend Mel K. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
Love her.
Roseanne Barr
She's the one that put me and Joel together.
Stephen K. Bannon
She's a hammer.
Roseanne Barr
She said, you've got to get the story out. It's right now. It's so hot.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, I love her. So. 12:30 world premiere, short introduction, 90 minute film. Then a live press conference with Roseanne Bar at the National Press Club. War room's going to stream the whole thing and we're going to be there for the. I'll be there personally for the press conference. Oh, yeah. What are you talking about? This is this iconic moment. And then when can people get the film?
Joel Gilbert
It's afterwards immediately available on DVD. It's on 86 million homes on video on demand. Every dish, VOD, every dish, dish network.
Stephen K. Bannon
Starting at the end of the world premiere. Correct. Monday afternoon.
Joel Gilbert
It's Tuesday. It's actually going to be Tuesday on there. And then live stream, itunes, video on demand, Amazon, you name it.
Stephen K. Bannon
I want him back on on Tuesday morning. We'll make another video push before it goes live on Tuesday morning. But, but I want to get back to you. What shocked me about your show when you came back is that the character was kind of so positive or so, you know, you're drawn into this character. I was stunned that a network or TV or executives actually, because it wasn't a goof.
Roseanne Barr
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
I was shocked that you were even on more than one or two episodes before it was shut down. How did that come about?
Roseanne Barr
Well, we did the whole season before it was cut. Shut down.
Stephen K. Bannon
That's. How did they even come to you and talk about that positive character?
Roseanne Barr
Well, Bob Iger came to me and begged me to come back.
Stephen K. Bannon
Head of Disney.
Roseanne Barr
Yeah. To save his network for the second time. And, you know, I told him what I was going to do that, you know, I wanted to show a Trump hater and a Hillary hater in the same family. And, you know, we deal with our differences with love. Because I was. I came back. They always asked me, but I came back because I was horrified at the way they were Trying to divide Americans along race and class, which. That was always what I talked about, you know, because we have to love our differences. We have to love our differences away. That's what America is. And so I thought I.
Stephen K. Bannon
And it starts in the family and then with friends. Is that the consensus circle?
Roseanne Barr
Yeah. And then neighborhoods and then communities, and then, you know, small government, and then, you know, that sort of what MAGA is. Right.
Stephen K. Bannon
So you come from Hollywood, you understand it's so twisted. You can't love it out. You know that.
Roseanne Barr
No, I know, but I always was talking to the audience. I'm talking to the audience. Never was I talking to Hollywood because I just thought, oh, these are just the devils you have to go through to talk to the people, get out there to America. Because I knew they wanted to hear uplift. They didn't want to be degraded, they didn't want to be talked to with that classist, elitist sneer that everybody has in Hollywood. They wanted eye to eye. They. They knew. And so that's what I told him I was going to do. And he was all for it. I guess maybe he lost himself that he thought, oh, I just need an audience because my network, nobody watches it. And I gave him 28 million viewers in today's time. And then. And then Trump called to congratulate me on my numbers, and ABC wouldn't cover it. So I had to go on CBS to talk about the President of the United States calling to congratulate me on my numbers on abc. So it started immediately. And my son said, mom, I'm afraid that's the kiss of death for you. They're going to try to get rid of you because Trump called and they hate Trump. And so I think that my fate was sealed with that phone call from Trump.
Stephen K. Bannon
Can you, can you verify that behind the scenes, it is a hatred of Trump is. It's not a rational hatred. It's just this emotional hatred of him.
Roseanne Barr
It the first time when we went to the up fronts and, you know.
Stephen K. Bannon
It was where you go in front of the advertisers in New York City. This is where the shows are actually made people get excited.
Roseanne Barr
Well, this was where the press asked you questions, and of course, we all expected they go, what's it like to be back together, you know, as this cast after 20 years? The first five questions. And ABC approved all these things. The first five questions, black journalists, you know, BLM types, which filled the network as well. And their questions were, how can you, after a lifetime as a civil rights activist, have traded it all to, you know, back a racist like Trump. And it was five in a row and Sarah Gilbert was sitting there. Don't say anything. Don't say anything. And, and so I said, roseanne, I said, I finally after the fourth one, I go, they're not asking you nothing. I'll answer you. Shut up. And so I said, they go, you, you don't vote for Hillary. How can you, you know, this and that. So I just had had enough because, you know, I'm that little baby. So I go, you didn't have your things on your. Yeah. So I said, excuse me, but the reason I didn't vote for Hillary, since we're talking about racism, is because of what she did in Haiti. And then it all went, you know, silent. And then ABC finally goes, that's enough about politics. Let's go into the, you know, well.
Stephen K. Bannon
We'Ve got to bounce, by the way, Clinton cash goes all into that. Where do people go on Tuesday where they go to get this great film?
Joel Gilbert
Yeah. Well, if you hit roseanne is america.com youm can see the trailer and that'll link you up to get the DVD. It's on every single cable network and live.
Stephen K. Bannon
84 million homes on Tuesday. We'll have you back.
Roseanne Barr
I just have to say I'm so happy because finally I get to tell what really happened and enough time has passed that people will see we won.
Stephen K. Bannon
We won and we're going to win more. We got the President's back. An American icon. Roseanne Barr live at the national press conference on National Press Club. That's big league, baby. Right across from the Treasury Department. Right across from the White house on Monday, 12:30.
Taj Gill
Correct.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room – Episode 4544: Populists Rally In Ireland; Roseanne LIVE In The WarRoom
Release Date: June 7, 2025
Overview
In Episode 4544 of Bannon’s War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon delves into the resurgence of populist movements in Ireland, the evolving geopolitical landscape involving Ukraine and Russia, and the burgeoning influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on global affairs. The episode also features a live segment with American icon Roseanne Barr, who discusses her latest film and experiences with cancel culture. Throughout the episode, Bannon engages with various experts, including Irish politician Kevin O'Sullivan, author Joe Allen, military analyst Captain Fennell, and filmmaker Joel Gilbert, providing listeners with a comprehensive analysis of current events shaping the world.
1. Populist Uprising in Ireland
Speakers: Stephen K. Bannon, Kevin O'Sullivan
The episode opens with Stephen K. Bannon introducing Kevin O'Sullivan, a city councilor from Ireland, to discuss the nation's current populist movement. O'Sullivan draws parallels between the present-day activism and the 1916 Easter Rising, emphasizing a peaceful reclamation of Irish sovereignty from the European Union (EU).
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2. The Role of Media and Political Elites
Kevin O'Sullivan criticizes the Irish political class, alleging that local politicians are more aligned with Brussels than with the Irish populace. He accuses the government of undermining national interests by prioritizing EU directives over domestic needs.
3. Artificial Intelligence and Legislative Challenges
Transitioning to the topic of AI, Stephen K. Bannon introduces Joe Allen to discuss the impending singularity and its potential threats. The conversation underscores the lack of regulation in AI development and its convergence with other advanced technologies like CRISPR and quantum computing.
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4. Ukraine-Russia Conflict and Intelligence Operations
Military analyst Taj Gill provides insights into the latest developments in the Ukraine-Russia war, particularly focusing on a strategic drone attack on Russian airfields. Gill attributes this operation to intelligence agencies like the CIA and MI6, suggesting it was executed without direct presidential oversight.
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5. Defense Budget and Naval Expansion
Captain Fennell discusses the strategic necessity of bolstering the United States Navy to counterbalance China's expanding naval capabilities in the Pacific. He advocates for reallocating resources from ground and marine forces to enhance naval strength, emphasizing the historical significance of battles like Midway.
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6. Global Economic Shifts: The Rio Reset
Ben Harwell provides an analysis of the upcoming BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, termed the "Rio Reset," where emerging superpowers aim to replace the US dollar as the global currency. He warns of potential devaluation of the dollar and advises diversifying savings into precious metals.
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7. Roseanne Barr’s Live Segment and Film Promotion
The episode features a live interview with Roseanne Barr, who discusses her new film, "Roseanne Barr is America," and her experiences with cancel culture. Barr shares personal anecdotes about her upbringing, career challenges, and the political pressures leading to her show's cancellation.
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8. Upcoming Events and Concluding Remarks
Stephen K. Bannon outlines upcoming events, including a global summit on the BRICS' Rio Reset and a significant military parade celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. He emphasizes the importance of continued coverage and strategic preparedness in the face of shifting global dynamics.
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Conclusion
Episode 4544 of Bannon’s War Room offers a multifaceted exploration of rising populist movements, the intricate dynamics of global conflicts, and the looming challenges posed by artificial intelligence. Through in-depth discussions with experts and a candid interview with Roseanne Barr, the episode underscores the intricate web of political, economic, and technological factors shaping the contemporary world. Bannon's analysis serves as a call to action for listeners to remain vigilant and proactive in navigating the complex landscape of the 21st century.