Episode 4817: MAGA Makes The List Of Times 100; America Polling And Antifa

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room — Episode 4817

Date: September 30, 2025
Episode Title: "MAGA Makes The List Of Times 100; America Polling And Antifa"
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Guests: Alex Brucewicz, Ben Berkwam, Mark Mitchell, Mike Lindell

Overview

This episode of Bannon’s War Room discusses a pivotal and charged national security moment as President Trump addresses all US military flag officers, focusing on “the enemy within”—from Antifa to violent crime and the deep state. The show weaves in the recognition of key MAGA organizers by Time magazine’s 100 most influential, explores street-level reporting from volatile Portland, and unpacks brand-new polling data on Trump’s executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. The discussion is raw, combative, and steeped in the current conservative, MAGA-centric perspective.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. President Trump’s Address to Military Flag Officers

• Historic Gathering:
  • All US military flag officers assembled to listen to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Trump (06:37).
  • Trump’s message centered on internal threats, asserting America faces an “invasion from within” more complex than foreign enemies.
• Policy Announcements:
  • Trump signed an executive order for a Quick Reaction Force to quell civil disturbances (02:52, 29:37).
  • Emphasis was on physical readiness, strength, and rejection of political correctness in the military.
• Tone & Military Reaction:
  • Military Analyst noted widespread disbelief and discomfort among military attendees, highlighting concern over the partisan, campaign-style nature of Trump’s address (04:26).
  • “Nothing that was said today could not have been put in an email or in a directive...I've gotten so many emails from women in the military who think that this was yet another...example of the fact that they believe that they are not welcome.” — Military Analyst (04:26).

2. MAGA Makes the Time 100 List

• Alex Brucewicz Recognized:
  • Brucewicz, along with other young MAGA figures such as Caroline Levitt, Byron Donalds, and Erica Kirk, named to Time magazine’s 100 most influential (09:02).
  • The host and guest contrast this with “Forbes 30 Under 30,” criticizing mainstream media for ignoring MAGA achievements.
  • Quote: “This list is much better than the Forbes 30 under 30...We got the real thing with Time.” — Alex Brucewicz (09:02)

3. Antifa Designated as Domestic Terrorist Organization

• Trump’s Executive Orders & Proclamations:
  • Trump’s series of orders and proclamations start the process of designating Antifa and affiliates as domestic terrorist groups, allowing investigation of funding and support networks (10:10, 17:00).
  • Bannon: “Today was different. It felt different. It had a different gravitas to it.” (10:10)
• On-the-Ground Reality in Portland:
  • Reports counter claims by local officials that protests are peaceful.
  • “During the day, it's pretty mellow, but at night, that's when the violence comes out...this is what these guys and gals have to deal with every single night where they're attacked, they're vilified, they're doxed, they're threatened. They're chanting out here, kill ICE.” — Ben Berkwam (24:54)

4. Street-Level Report from Portland (Ben Berkwam)

• Description & Visuals:
  • Describes encampments, graffiti, anti-ICE slogans, and nighttime attacks on federal agents (24:54).
  • Ties local officials to radical activist groups, claiming coordination to obstruct ICE.
  • “Honestly, when you come to a place like Portland, it feels like a city that's been given over to the devil.” — Ben Berkwam (24:54)

5. Public Opinion and Polling Analysis (Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen)

• Americans Support Accountability:
  • High support for Antifa’s terrorist designation: “It was 53% approved to only 36% disapproved. So almost net plus 20.” (32:37)
  • Despite the political framing, violent crime is a top concern for voters, overtaking even issues like inflation.
  • Quote: “They just want to see things fixed. They want to see people rounded up and arrested.” — Mark Mitchell (32:37)
  • Democrats largely still view right-wing extremism as a greater threat, citing the persistent impact of January 6th in public memory.

6. Disconnect with Capitol Hill GOP

• Bannon and Brucewicz critique establishment Republicans for being “out of touch,” claiming they’re still focused on conventional policy debates instead of addressing civil unrest and domestic threats (17:00).
• Brucewicz: “President Trump is teaching Republicans how to fight and he's not going to back down. There's nothing that's going to deter the president from doing the right thing.” (18:30)

7. Concerns over Urban Crime, Immigration, and "Foreign Gangs"

• Brucewicz discusses rising violence in cities, especially from “foreign gangs” in cities like Chicago.
• Points to local populations demanding intervention to combat these issues (11:07).

8. New York City and Leftist Ascendancy

• The upcoming mayoral win of “Mondami” in NYC is described as “running the city into the ground,” and an example of Democratic Socialists’ rise nationwide (20:44).
• Warns that the spread of “Mandamis” should worry all Americans, not just New Yorkers (20:55).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Domestic Deployment of Military:

  • “Very important mission. And I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.” — Donald Trump (00:12)
  • “We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms.” — Donald Trump (00:53, 29:37)

• On Law Enforcement and “Enemy Within”:

  • “The greatest enemy that we have right now is not abroad. It's within. It's the deep state.” — Alex Brucewicz (11:07)
  • “We have to crush these people or we're not going to have a country much longer.” — Alex Brucewicz (18:30)

• On Street-Level Reality in Portland:

  • “During the day it's mellow, but at night, that's when the violence comes out...They're chanting out here, kill ICE. All of this stuff happening every single night.” — Ben Berkwam (24:54)
  • “It cannot continue in this country. This cancer. It is the enemy within that is destroying this country.” — Ben Berkwam (27:01)

• On Polling and American Attitudes:

  • “People don't really even know what ANTIFA is. They just want to see things fixed. They want to see people rounded up and arrested...53% approved to only 36% disapproved.” — Mark Mitchell (32:37)
  • “90% of America now is concerned about political violence. That's a really high number.” — Mark Mitchell (38:44)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening - Trump’s Military Address & Portland Discussion: 00:00–04:26
• Bannon on Regime & MAGA Media: 06:37
• Time 100 Announcement & Discussion: 09:02–10:10
• Brucewicz on Antifa, Gangs, and Deep State: 11:07–13:26
• Bannon Critiques Capitol Hill GOP / MAGA Congressional Bench: 17:00–20:44
• Brucewicz on NYC Leftist Victories: 20:44–22:21
• Berkwam Live from Portland — Describing the Scene: 24:54–27:01
• Rasmussen Polling on Antifa & Public Opinion: 32:37–38:44
• Continued Discussion: Public Attitudes on Political Violence: 38:44–42:59
• Closing: Lindell and Election Fraud Segment: 48:28–51:53

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Overall Tone & Language

The episode is combative, urgent, and unapologetically partisan in defense of the Trump agenda. Language is direct, at times inflammatory, and loaded with culture war references—“enemy within,” “primal scream of a dying regime,” “cancer,” and repeated invocations of “fighting” and “crushing” adversaries. The speakers frequently reference grassroots activism, distrust of mainstream institutions, and calls for immediate, forceful action.

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For Listeners Who Haven’t Heard the Show

This episode is vital listening for those following the Trump movement’s reactions to internal unrest, the evolution of MAGA influence, and the escalation of rhetoric as America grapples with domestic polarization. The discussion provides a clear window into the movement’s priorities—military domestic action, dismantling Antifa, attacking Democratic Socialists, and reshaping public debate on law and order.

Notable takeaway:
Bannon’s War Room, in this episode, frames 2025 as a turning point for American order and conservatism: federal force, new lines of loyalty among GOP leaders, and the solidifying of the new MAGA elite, all in the shadow of street-level conflict and sprawling culture wars.

Transcript

[Portland Official]

Because Donald Trump actually spent a good amount of time today laying the groundwork for the United States military to regularly and increasingly and perhaps indefinitely be deployed on the streets of American cities.

[Donald Trump]

Very important mission. And I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor. Stupid. They threw him out of his family business. He was so stupid. I know the family. He becomes governor, he's got money. Not money that he made, but he ran for governor, he won, and now he criticizes us all the time. And last week they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot. The week before that, they had 5 people murdered, 28 people shot. Every weekend they lose 5, 6. If they lose 5, they're considering it a great week. They shouldn't lose any. Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out. These people don't have uniforms. But we are under invasion from within. We're stopping it very quickly. No, they need the military desperately. How about Portland? Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone, and I get a call from the liberal governor, sir, please don't come in. We don't need you. I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down. I mean, you must be kidding. Sir, we have it under control. I said, you don't have it under control, Governor, but I'll check it and I'll call you back. I called him back. I said, you, you. This place is a nightmare, probably. It's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst. It's brutal.

[Portland Official]

What is your expectation for what Donald Trump will be doing in Portland if your lawsuit, the city's lawsuit against sending in federal troops is not successful? Well, I just want to start off by saying that our lawsuit is going to be successful because he simply does not have the same facts that we are seeing on the ground. So I don't know if he's getting a video or if his advisers are giving him misinformation, but things are very peaceful downtown. There are protests which people are allowed to engage in. People are allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights, but we are simply not seeing what he is seeing. So I am feeling very confident that we are going to win the lawsuit on Friday.

[Donald Trump]

We haven't even started yet. Last month I signed an executive order to provide training for Quick Reaction Force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. It won't get out of control once you get involved at all. They all joke. They say, oh, this is not good. We're bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character and strength. And that's because the purposes of American military is not to protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our republic. And it's the republic that we dearly love. It's to protect our country will not be politically correct when it comes to defending American freedom. And we will be a fighting and winning machine. We want to fight, we want to win, and we want to fight as little as possible. You have to count on people like me to keep you out of wars because we don't want to go into wars in this effort. We're a team. And so my message to you is very simple. I am with you. I support you, and as president, I have your backs 100%. You'll never see me even waver a little bit. It's the way it is. And that includes our great police officers and firemen and all of these people that are doing so well together. Over the next few years, we're going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than it has ever been before.

[Military Analyst]

That was a stunning display, I think, that we saw this morning from both President Trump, who used this opportunity to deliver his standard campaign style stump speech, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who just repeated his very familiar litany of culture war issues that he has made his hallmark. I have yet to find a single military official who was in the audience today who thought that this was a good presentation. All I've had from them so far from the people I've talked to is a combination of disbelief that they were made to fly, some of them from Asia, from around the world, from bases in Europe and in even Africa, all the way to Quantico in Virginia to listen to the same sort of the same very familiar type of war, culture war complaints that we've been having since President Trump was reelected and since Pete Hecseth took over the running of the Defense Department. And you just saw that all over again this morning. Nothing that was said today could not have been put in an email or in a directive. So there's that to begin with. There's also the fact that so much of this was partisan and this is a military that is supposed to present itself as nonpartisan. So you didn't hear the kind of cheering that we usually get the because President Trump is used to playing for the type of crowds that favor him. And so he's not very used to performing in front of an audience that's just giving looking back stone face. But that's what you were getting from these generals. But I've gotten so many emails from women in the military who think that this was yet another as if they needed it again. They've heard this for months now. Another example of the fact that they believe that they are not welcome.

[Steve Bannon]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. There's not got a free shot. 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? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people 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. WAR ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. It's Tuesday the 30th of September in the year of our Lord 2025. So today's the end of the third quarter at midnight and the government will shut down. We will have a lot about that in the rest of the show. But I want to start with you. A historic day. Never before in the country's history have all the flag officers of all the different uniformed services come together as one to listen to the secretary of war followed by the commander in chief. And we pulled out the elements of that dealing with the what is going to save us from spiraling into a civil war here in this country. And that is putting down the violent extremists and the domestic terrorists that are driving this at the bequest of billionaires and foundations and all that. But we're getting to this, so we wanted to pull that out. I've asked Alex Brucewicz to join us. Alex, today, explain to the audience, I mean, you're very well Known to us. You're on all the time. You're one of the architects of President Trump's victory. What we loved about you, you can take incoming and not flinch. As the campaign was a little rough at times, Time magazine, correct me if I'm wrong, Time magazine has named you to the Time, I guess it's global 100 list, the 100 most influential young people in the world. Is that what this is? And you're on the list.

[Alex Brucewicz]

Well, it was a great honor to wake up to this morning. Totally caught me off guard. But Eric Cordalessa, the reporter who recognized me for this, is a talented guy. He's covered the President, I think, quite fairly over the years. He's done multiple cover stories on the president. And I was very surprised when he said that I was going to be on it. And it was great honor. I was joined by Caroline Levitt. Our great press secretary, Erica Kirk was also acknowledged this year. Byron Donald. So a lot of great mega warriors, really the next generation of mega warriors were recognized this year. And I posted on X that this list is much better than the Forbes 30 under 30 list because Forbes 30 under 30, it came out just a couple of weeks after the President's campaign when we won. And they highlighted this guy Parker, who ran Kamala Harris social media. And they said, oh, he's so smart. I'm going to put him on as 30 under 30. And they totally ignored the people on the winning team. But Parker got the make a wish acknowledgement. We got the real thing with time.

[Steve Bannon]

It's fantastic. And Eric, by the way, I think is one of the mainstream media's best reporters for covering the President, in fact, just did an amazing cover story after Charlie Kirk's assassination. Talk to me about this situation. The President calls everybody back as commander in chief, has this historic discussion today. The center of gravity of it, and this is what the mainstream media is going crazy. He was talking to the uniformed services and he re emphasized over and over again the enemy within. And the problem we have here in the United States, you just had a massive designation of antifa and all the antifa affiliates as domestic terrorist organizations, which means we can get into their finances, find out these foundations that prop them up, the media that props them up, the politicians that prop them up. But today was different. It felt different. It had a different gravitas to it. Your thoughts and observations, sir?

[Alex Brucewicz]

Well, I listened to every word that the President said this morning. I think his address was quite powerful and it was a message that needed to be heard. I think there's a lot of folks in the military still that, you know, in the top ranks of the military that are still very political in how they operate. And I think Pete's been doing a really great job of weeding them out. I think he's doing a fantastic job as Secretary of War. But President Trump is right. The greatest enemy that we have right now is not abroad. It's within. It's the deep state. It is the corrupt actors who have really done everything they possibly could over the last few decades to destroy our country. And now they are unleashing their crazy domestic terrorists on our people and on our country. And it's their rhetoric, and it's their people that killed my friend Charlie Kirk. You know, it is their people who shot at my friend President Trump. It is their people who are outside of Justice Kavanaugh's house trying to assassinate him. It's their people that try to throw you in prison or that threw you in prison. Steve. These are crazy people, and they hate our country. And President Trump is right to focus on them. We have to go after their funding sources. We have to investigate every aspect of this. And the president is also right to acknowledge the violence that is terrorizing American cities. Some it's domestic gangs, but a LotSteve, it's foreign gangs. It's these illegal aliens who are criminal illegal aliens. They find safe haven in these sanctuary cities. Chicago's a prime example. And one of the issues that I found to be very unique going into the November election of last year was a lot of guys in the south side of Chicago, rough neighborhoods, right? These are tough guys, probably in gangs themselves, some of them, but they start having problems with the Venezuelan gangs who are moving into the neighborhoods. And they were saying, trump, come in, come in. Help get these guys out of here. And it's very dangerous, what's happening, because you have the Chicago gangs now fighting against the Venezuelan gangs in Chicago, and the people of Chicago want to get them out of there. And it's only these foreigners or these people who are not local to their cities that are coming in saying, please don't send in the troops. But everybody who lives in these communities want them to come in and help.

[Steve Bannon]

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[Portland Official]

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[Donald Trump]

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[Donald Trump]

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[Mark Mitchell]

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[Military Analyst]

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[Portland Official]

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[Alex Brucewicz]

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[Steve Bannon]

So, Alex, the president signs. First off, he comes back from Charlie's memorial service where he gave an incredible set of remarks. He comes back, he signs the next night, kind of the preamble or the beginning of the executive orders and proclamations about Ed Tifa being a terrorist organization. Then a couple days later comes back and has this detailed 20 page detail about what we're going to do to eradicate this. Then he brings in all the generals and admirals, all the flag officers. In the core of the speech, which was different than anything anybody ever heard, he talked about the deployment, potential deployment of the US Military in the United States to put down the increasing extreme violence of the political left. President Trump gets it. The people around him get it. Real America's voice Worm gets it. Ben Berkwam's in Portland. We're gonna go to him with this footage in a moment. You get it? I find the disconnect is up on Capitol Hill with the establishment Republicans. It's like we're living in two different worlds. They are very much focused on kind of tax cuts and these policy situations that are very important, don't get me wrong, but are detached from this country sliding into a civil war. And you can see this. I know you've been very active in talking about what's happening in New York City, but that's the Red Green alliance. And after November 4th, it ain't never going to be the same up there. Your thoughts, sir?

[Alex Brucewicz]

Well, I think that our team on Capitol Hill is substantially stronger than it was when we were in office during the first term. There's a lot more fighters now. There's a lot more people that get it. There's still a lot that don't. To your point, but President Trump is teaching Republicans how to fight and he's not going to back down. There's nothing that's going to deter the president from doing the right thing. And he's going to be pedal to the metal. And either you're on our team or you're not. And there's midterm elections coming up. And if you're not on our team, well, I think there's going to be some consequences for you because, Steve, your audience is going to be holding them accountable. You have such a powerful voice here and megaphone here, and you have the most hardcore activists in our entire movement. And so if people aren't joining the president in his endeavor to crush the enemy within, then I think that we're going to need to identify some new members of our team. And that's okay. There's a lot of great people that want to step up, but people like Anna Paulina Luna have been warriors for us. Byron Donalds has been great for us. Eric Schmidt in the Senate, Jim Banks in the Senate. These guys totally get it. We didn't have this caliber of talent during the first term, which is something that I think a lot of our voters and supporters should sleep well at night knowing. But we have a lot more to do. The president is full steam ahead to crush these people. We have to crush these people or we're not going to have a country much longer. They are destroying our country. You have Soros, you have these DAs that he funds that get these criminals out easy. You have these crazy people like Roy Cooper in North Carolina, who signs this executive order allowing 3,500 criminals to roam free and then goes totally soft on crime. And then what happens is you have killers like Decarlos Brown Jr gets on the train and slits the throat of a beautiful young Ukrainian girl, Irina Zyrutska, while she was coming home from work. This can't happen anymore. And we need to stop ignoring these problems. The president is not going to ignore these problems, and he's going to stop, you know, he's going to crush the root of these problems. And that starts with who's financing it, who's supporting it. And we're going to get to the bottom of it. And so everybody on Capitol Hill, every Republican, should support him or get out of the way.

[Steve Bannon]

Alex, you've got your hand on the pulse in New York City, too. I know you spent a lot of time thinking that through. Tell the audience what's going to happen when Mondani wins.

[Alex Brucewicz]

Sir, I think it's terrible. I think he's going to run that city into the ground, and it's going to be a great embarrassment for our nation and, quite frankly, the world. It's one of the greatest cities that the world has ever known, and it's so close to becoming a socialist hellhole, and it should sadden everybody. Not just, you know, I think there's a lot of people in America's heartland where I grew up who really don't care what happens in New York City. But I think you should care, because if they can do it there, they can really do it anywhere. And we need to speak out against it. Mandami is going to be a major problem, but he's also going to have problems if he gets elected. I have a feeling he's going to have some major problems with funding and support here in Washington, D.C. but these are crazy people. And there's Mandamis popping up everywhere, all across the country. They basically, the Democrat socialists, they basically have casting couches for the crazy socialists that want to run for office. And they have this financial network that has these guys come in and they audition. Oh, I can be a crazy socialist politician. Here's. Then they do a little act and then they get the money. AOC comes from the same cloth. And so there's these people popping up all over the world. And it's on Republican billionaires to step up to counter it. But it's also on, you know, Republican politicians to get smart, get tough, and push back big time.

[Steve Bannon]

Alex, where are your coordinates? How do people track you down and start to follow you, sir, if they don't already follow me?

[Alex Brucewicz]

Lexbruzewitz on all social media platforms. Truth. I gotta get Getter. Steve, you gotta. You gotta send me the link to Getter. I'll download it right now. But I'm on Truth. I'm on X Instagram. And, you know, I appreciate you having me on. And your voice is so incredibly important to this movement and to the fight ahead, Steve, because that's what we're in. This is a fight. And you're certainly the general of this online army and we're grateful for.

[Steve Bannon]

Well, you're one of the troops that people can count on. There's a lot of people that will blink. And Alex was under tremendous pressure on the campaign. And Alex always told the President exactly what he thought. Here's what we need to do.

[Mike Lindell]

Boom.

[Steve Bannon]

And that's why he's such an enormous success. One of the major reasons the campaign was successful and the fact that TIME magazine understood that and gave you the nod today. Alex, thank you so much for joining us.

[Donald Trump]

Appreciate it.

[Alex Brucewicz]

God bless you.

[Steve Bannon]

Any country that generates men like Charlie Kirk and Alex Brucewicz and Jack Posobec is a country that can see through a fight, and we're gonna. We gotta fight in front of our hands. By the way, Grayson, Moe, if you can get Alex a link over to get her, I appreciate it. Let's play a clip. I got the Great. Ben Berkram, Ben Bergquam will always go to the sound of the guns when it comes to news. Ben Berkhom's in, in Portland. Let's play. I want to play a clip of the. I guess it's a town councilman first. I thought it might be the governor's a town council person on TV and get his response and then talked about what he saw last night.

[Portland Official]

What is your expectation for what Donald Trump will be doing in Portland if your lawsuit, the city's lawsuit against sending in federal troops is not successful? Well, I just want to start off by saying that our lawsuit is going to be successful because he simply does not have the same facts that we are seeing on the ground. So I don't know if he's getting a video or if his advisers are giving him misinformation, but things are very peaceful downtown. There are protests which people are allowed to engage in. People are allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights, but we are simply not seeing what he is seeing. So I am feeling very confident that we are going to win the lawsuit on Friday.

[Steve Bannon]

So, Ben Berkwam, is she correct? You were out there last night. What are you seeing, sir?

[Ben Berkham]

Yeah, it's the same thing we see all across the country. I just want to kind of set the stage up here for you, Steve. We've got the beautiful signage, the spray painting. We got the guillotine. You've got more down, down the way. Molotovs melt ice, kill cops, all of that painted on. And I just want to walk you across here. We got an encampment set up over here on the left side. It's basically, again, any city in America now will come across the street over here. Out here during the day, it's pretty mellow, but at night, that's when the violence comes out. And so during the day they're going to say, oh, there's nothing happening. But I just want to show you what the building looks like. I mean, basically it's turned into a bunker to protect the ice. This whole outside facade has had to be covered up by plywood. And every night, especially around midnight shift change, you get the antifa. Let's get out of the way. We got a vehicle coming through. God bless you guys. Thanks for your service. Appreciate you guys. We got guys coming in, but at night you got groups of antifa that come across and try to block these guys from doing their jobs. And the biggest problem is not just what's happening here, Steve. There's a network of these communist leftists you got antifa with these La Raza groups, all working together with people like that city councilwoman who are coordinating to obstruct ICE from doing their operations in the field. And that's the biggest problem, is it's affecting their ability to pick up the bad guys in these neighborhoods. This is just one part of the problem. Just down the way, you've got a witchcraft shrine. All of this, Steve, is good versus evil. Last night I showed up and there was a witch down there doing the seance in front of the shrine. It's all good versus evil. And honestly, when you come to a place like Portland, it feels like a city that's been given over to the devil.

[Steve Bannon]

Let's talk about for a second. That's the holding area for ice, and this is the residential neighborhood that people were complaining about. People come out and say, we can't sleep because it's going all night, particularly starting at midnight. The people in the shift change have.

[Ben Berkham]

To have to sneak the buildings right there.

[Steve Bannon]

Yes, sir. Go ahead. Yep. They have to.

[Ben Berkham]

Yeah.

[Steve Bannon]

Just to give you an idea of.

[Ben Berkham]

How close the residential is here.

[Steve Bannon]

Yep.

[Ben Berkham]

Yeah, yeah, no, that's it. And this is the thing, you know, you're talking about, agents. I'm, you know, we're gonna be doing some operations with these guys. Can't talk about specifics, what's going on, but you're talking about the best of the best in our country that want to protect their communities, that are simply trying to do their job to keep their communities safe, keep your community safe. And for doing that, they get attacked every single night. This is not a new thing for Portland. Maybe the mayor, maybe the governor just doesn't think it's that big a deal because it's been going on for so long. They've allowed this cancer to spread for so long, but this is what these guys and gals have to deal with. Every single night where they're attacked, they're vilified, they're doxed, they're threatened. They're told that they're going to be killed, that they're going to kill. They're chanting out here, kill ice. All of this stuff happening every single night. So I don't know what you call that if that's not a war zone, but I will tell you this, it cannot continue in this country. This cancer. It is the enemy within. You started the show. It's the enemy within that is destroying this country. And if we don't get this figured out very quickly, we're not going to have a country Very long.

[Steve Bannon]

Ben. Stay right there. Mark Mitchell is also going to join us about some polling that Rasmus has done to talk about where Americans are with this antifa situation, them being designated as a terrorist organization. Short Commercial break Return to the War Room in just a moment. According to the Department of Energy, blackouts could increase by 10,000% over the next few years. It's because of massive energy demand from artificial intelligence data centers. We talk about that all the time here in the War room and we have a fragile power grid. It just cannot keep up with that demand. I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of being without power even for a day. That's why I got the grid Dr. 3300 from my patriot supply. It's a powerful solar generator that runs refrigerators, AC units, medical devices, power tools, anything you need to ride out a blackout. And right now, for their Christmas in July event, they're including over $1,000 in free survival gear with your generator, including emergency food supply, water filtration, survival tools and more. You heard that, right. Over 1,000 bucks in free gear for a limited time. Head to my Patriotsupply.com Bannon that's my Patriotsupply.com Bannon and grab the Christmas in July bundle before it's gone. Blackouts are coming. Go to my patronsupply.com Bannon and get prepared today.

[Donald Trump]

Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out. These people don't have uniforms. But we are under invasion from within. We're stopping it very quickly. No, they need the military desperately. How about Portland? Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone and I get a call from the liberal governor, sir, please don't come in. We don't need you. I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down. I mean, you must be kidding. Sir, we have it under control. I said, you don't have it under control, Governor, but I'll check it and I'll call you back. I called it back. I said, you, you. This place is a nightmare. Probably. It's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst. It's brutal.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, Mark Mitchell's with us. We're going to go back to Ben in a moment. Remember, I talked about this in November of 23, gave a talk down at Pinehurst and said, hey, the convergence of budget cuts, it cuts the social programs because you're going to have to cut some of that to get to a balanced budget. Combined with the beginning of mass deportations, because President Trump's going to do mass deportations. The convergence of that, you're going to have a civil war in the streets because they're just not going to sit there having already engaged in invasion of our country with tens of millions of illegal aid aliens here. They're just not going to sit there and go, what a lovely idea. Let's just everybody go home. This is one of the ways they're strangling this country. And it's ICE that's drawn the heat from these terrorist organizations. And that's why the increasing violence against federal officials, but also against the Charlie Kirks of the world as this violence starts to spin out of control. And this is why the president signed this executive order and this mandate to designate ANTIFA and all of its affiliates domestic terrorist organizations. It's wide ranging. It's going to be very. It's going to have a huge impact. Mark Mitchell, you've actually polled that. You heard the president today. I think the crux of the reason everybody came back, he wanted to tell him, hey, look, we got problems all over the world and you're deployed all over the world, but we got a problem here at home. And get ready to saddle up and be in shape to saddle up, because President Trump is not going to sit there and let cities like Portland. We're not going to have a reprise of 2020. He doesn't have Bill Barr and Esper and these wimps that talk him out of it. He's going to take action. He's taking action. What do the American people think about it so far, sir?

[Mark Mitchell]

Well, anything that brings accountability is going to be extremely popular right now. And we do have good marks back on this declaration of ANTIFA as a terrorist organization. But here's the thing, like, people don't really even know what ANTIFA is. They just want to see things fixed. They want to see people rounded up and arrested. Which statement is closer to your belief? The left will say that Antifa is just an idea. It's not an organization. It's just people, you know, larping as revolutionaries. Well, only 32% of America agrees with that. 44% say it's a decentralized yet coordinated terror network. Well, here's the thing. One in five Americans have no idea. They don't know. They're not sure. They don't know what antifa is. CNN doesn't really cover antifa. And when they go on Reddit, and we talked about this before, but 65% of 18 to 29 year olds, 18 to 39 year olds, sorry, use Reddit at least occasionally. And three quarters of them say they're getting their news there. And what do you, what do you hear on Reddit? It's like, well, Trump's a fascist, we need antifa. But then when you say, well, President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order designating them a domestic terror organization, well, that's overwhelmingly positive. Everybody loves that. It was 53% approved to only 36% disapproved. So almost net plus 20. And this is the same kind of signal we've seen. People want folks who manipulated intelligence for the Russian collusion hoax arrested. They're angry with the level of waste, fraud and abuse. They want audits, they want election integrity, they want all this stuff. And so if Trump's going to roll the National Guard into cities, like people are going to like that. The marks have been very good. President Trump recently deployed National Guard troops the District of Columbia. How successful has this strategy been? And people say successful 51 to 36. Would you support or oppose President Donald Trump sending National Guard troops to other cities around the country to help reduce violent crime? And personally, I say, like Portland, just let those guys secede. To be honest with you, they'll be back in like five years anyways. But 53% support to 43% oppose and 35% Democrats support. Only 51% of Democrats strongly oppose. And so I think Trump has a window here. You know, like, violent crime was a really big issue and so people might not know about antifa. But in depending on the poll, violent crime was like issue number three for the 2024 election. And when we asked, is violent crime near you getting better or worse? Throughout all of Biden's administration, It was like plus 45 would say worse. It was like 60 to 15. Well, for the very first time in years we asked that question. And it's only a few points apart now. Worse is down in the 30s. So Trump has had a massive effect on people's opinions about whether violent crime is getting better or worse around them. And then also, you know, this is the party of defund the police. That was a really big deal. But we've been asking, especially after the Reina Zyrutska thing, People say that our system is too soft on violent crime as opposed to too hard by like a 5 to 1 margin. And then we talked about it on your air as well. Execution for Decarlos Brown is up to plus 40. So people want accountability. And I think Trump should just keep doing this stuff. I'd love to see Congress act. I'd love to see all this other stuff happen. I'd love to see the J6 Commission. You know, there's a lot of stuff that has to be uncovered still. This is only just the beginning. But, yeah, round these people up because the optics are horrible for Democrats. You're going to come out and defend these people. And the more Trump does, I think you're going to get the Streisand effect. Because again, MSNBC is crashing. I saw ratings, I think it was basically averaging 150,000 viewers in the primetime demo. Now nobody's watching MSNBC. CNN is almost as bad. And yet, you know, you still have about 35 to 40% of America who doesn't know, like, they support antifa. They think that Trump is fascist. Actually, this kind of blows my mind. We pulled about the Jimmy Kimmel thing and there was one specific quote. Basically, it was long, but it was basically saying, well, Trump is bringing fascism and fascism is here. And people agreed with that statement by almost plus 20. And this is in the same polling where Donald Trump had a net plus one approval rating. So it's like people don't care if it's fascism. Only 35% of Americans say that they're better off than they were four years ago. Only 22% say today's children will have a better life than their parents. They want it fixed. And they look at D.C. they don't see things getting fixed. They look at Donald Trump and he's fixing things. This isn't just about the invasion at the border. And people did agree and call it invasion. It's not just, you know, people like to sanitize this in the polling industry. And they say, well, how is Donald Trump doing on the issue of immigration? No, they want America fixed. And this is all one thing. This is basically the Democrats came in and they caused absolute chaos. I don't know if it's Project 2030. I don't know why they're doing it even. They're even pushing. They're putting Chuck Schumer in a very politically tenuous position right now because I think they want to shut down. I don't know what they think they're going to gain out of it. Other than sheer chaos. Americans want an end to chaos, and Donald Trump seems to be the only person breaking the sweat right now to give it an end to chaos to the American people.

[Steve Bannon]

Is it your assessment that a President Trump. Because remember Barr, we had the situation in 2020, he was going to designate Antifa, a terrorist organization. He was talked out of it by Bill Barr and other Bush Republicans over the Justice Department and on his staff. And we saw how horrific that was. And that was all the predicate to remove Trump from office. He's deploying National Guard right now, but they really haven't started to roll heavy. Would it be your recommendation or from. You've seen the numbers that the American people respond more if they saw actual the physical manifestation of accountability.

[Mark Mitchell]

100%. Because, you know, I think the way opinion works is that, okay, over time, people are going to start getting what they want and ease off. They say, you know what, immigration is not so bad. You know what? I can get a job. I don't think we're there yet at all because half of 18 to 29 year olds say that it's not possible for anybody who wants to work to find a job in this environment. That's the kind of thing I think we need to be targeting. But it happens slowly and then all of a sudden at once. And that's because Americans will be like, all right, I don't care so much about the border anymore. And then all of a sudden you'll see something like a picture of Eli and Gonzalez, and America will be like, oh, okay, well, you know, the Zeitgeist drives that. And right now the Zeitgeist is seeing Charlie Kirk with a hole in his neck and Arena Zarutska getting basically her throat slit on public transportation. Right? That's what Americans, I think, are latching onto. And, you know, I, what I do is I go on Twitter and I watch, you know, the short little snippets of Anapha people getting punched in the face over and over and over again. And so that's what's, you know, that's what's the discussion on Twitter now, obviously, the fake discussion on liberal echo chambers is saying very different things. And so you have the temperature rising on both sides. We've been talking about this for a very long time. The only thing is, is I think on one side, it's like very, very heavily astroturfed in a way that like, we don't even know. So what I can tell Donald Trump is there's some, there's some public opinion polling that you look at and you say, you know what? America wants this. It's the right thing to do. I should give America this. And then there's other polling that you look at and you say, well, America doesn't really know. They're not sure. And yet there's something important that has to get done to fix this stuff. And I think it's uncovering all of the reasons that we have major. I'll just give you one example. So one of the things that we asked about, very recently, we've been talking about civil war. We've been talking about increased threats of political violence. 90% of America now is concerned about political violence. That's a really high number. 70% very concerned. That's the number one issue now. It's no longer inflation. And yet when we ask them, well, okay, first, what are you more concerned about, domestic or foreign terrorism? 60% say domestic 24 and roughly. But then who are you more afraid of, right wing extremists or left wing extremists? America says right wing extremists by a couple points, even in polling that shows that Donald Trump is up. Now, obviously some people don't know right wing, left wing, what it means. But we also still have January 6th hanging over the head of America. And that was a very effective psychological operation. It deeply scarred a lot of people. We talked about this a lot on your show. When you have basically 25% of Republicans saying it's the biggest threat to democracy since the Civil War, you're not going to wash that stuff away really quickly. And okay, so Donald TRUMP finally on September 3rd, I guess put the ladder milk. They run into commission now. I guess it's been really quiet, but until stuff comes out to resolve that dissonance, people think the right wing is more violent in America because of January 6th. And because the way that the left has been framing the right as violent and extremists, Democrats are more concerned about political violence than Republicans are. And that's like a week after Charlie Kirk was shot. So that's just the reality. So again, these, these lies, all of this deception, America doesn't even understand the depths of these lies. It was really just like one brutal psychological warfare regime for four years, basically clown world. And you have to put that stuff right. And it's, they're doing good stuff like today, Hegseth coming up and saying, well, you know, sorry about your feelings, but combat is about killing the enemy and not about making women feel better about their physical stature. That's not popular. People want women in combat but you know what? It's the right thing. And so my policy people ask me what my politics are. Voters should get what they want unless it's stupid. And so like, obviously, like not having antifa, allowing them to run around as a domestic terrorism organization is stupid. We should fix that. Having global kleptocracy forces co opt every means of information to send.

[Steve Bannon]

Hang on one second. We got to, we got to go to break. I want to stick around. We got Ben Berkwam. And now a rainy Portland. We're going to figure out how to cover the equipment so Ben can take footage. Tonight, Michael and I was going to join us. A government shutdown just hours away. One that I think Ross vote he's been looking for. Short commercial break. Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen on the other side. What if he had the brightest mind in the war room delivering critical financial research every month? Steve Bannon here. War Room listeners know Jim Rickards. I love this guy. He's our wise man. A former CIA, Pentagon and White House advisor with an unmatched grasp of geopolitics and capital markets. Jim predicted Trump's electoral College victory exactly 312 to 226, down to the actual number itself. Now he's issuing a dire warning about April 11, a moment that could define Trump's presidency and your financial future. His latest book, Money GPT, exposes how AI is setting the stage for financial chaos. Bank runs at lightning speeds, algorithm driven crashes and even threats to national security. Right now, War Room members get a free copy of MoneyGPT when they sign up for Strategic Intelligence. This is Jim's flagship financial newsletter, Strategic Intelligence. I read it. You should read it. Time is running out. Go to rickardswarroom.com that's all one word. Rickards War Room. Rickards with an S. Go now and claim your free book. That's rickardswarroom.com do it today. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Okay, surprise, surprise is starting to rain in Portland. Ben Burkhumb. You gotta get the equipment covered. We're going to play some B roll. Last night, do you agree with the city council? And the governor told President Trump nothing's happening. Sir, after you were there last night, I know you're going out again tonight.

[Ben Berkham]

The only, the only caveat I would say is this is not out of control. This is controlled. It's just like what we saw on our southern border. It was all controlled. It was all by design. This is the enemy to the left, the radical left. Ice is the enemy. These guys are the enemy. And so for them, it's not out of control, it's under control. They are controlling the attacks against ice. They're controlling ICE not being able to do their job and go out and pick up the illegal aliens that they invited in. And they're controlling the minds of the people that live in these communities. These are siloed communities where basically the information that the people get that live here is from an isolated source that basically says, america's a terrible place. Trump's a fascist, Trump's a Nazi. These guys are fascists. They're holding people unjustifiably and anything you want to do is justified. It goes back to, like the attacks that we've seen against people like me, where they say speech is violent. It goes back to what happened to Charlie Kirk. It's this mindset, and that's the bigger problem, Steve. It's not even what happens here at midnight almost on a nightly basis. It's the mindset, the cancer that has been allowed to metastasize in our communities, in our country that says America is a terrible country and we have to remake it in this communist, anarchist, utopian vision.

[Steve Bannon]

Since he signed the executive order, I think the audience has the question I have. Why are these people not arrested tonight? Why are they not rolled up and put into a federal facility? You talked about we had 2,000 back in 2020 and June 2020. And Barr said, oh, you can't do it. Now we have an executive order that's empowering people. Why are we putting up with the cost of this? Why are we putting up with the slowing down of the mass deportations? Why are we risking any ICE agents at all? Why we have the neighbors can't get to sleep till 3 or 4 in the morning. Why are they just not getting rolled up? Like, starting right now with that crowd out there last night, when that crowd comes back, why are they just not arrested on the spot?

[Ben Berkham]

Yeah, I can't answer that for you, Steve. I wish every single one of them were. I think we have plenty of bed space in Guantanamo and that's what we need to start doing.

[Steve Bannon]

Ben, your social media, where do people get you? I'm going to try to get you back here for the 6 o' clock hour, but I know you got to get shelter. Where do people go on social media, sir?

[Ben Berkham]

Real America's Voice. We actually have a new episode of Law and Border coming out this weekend. Ealamvoice on all social media. And then my personal is my substacks. Frontline America and the rest of them are enbridge work one.

[Alex Brucewicz]

Ben Be safe.

[Steve Bannon]

Tonight and we'll get your we'll talk to you maybe in the 6 o' clock hour. If not we'll get you. We'll get you at tomorrow morning with more footage. Mike Lindell, Reuters has a has a huge story out this morning and Grace and Mo if you can put it out onto the into the chat and we push it out as a force multiplier Exclusive for Reuters dateline Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevada's acting U.S. attorney urged voter fraud probe to help Republicans document shows and that headlines a total complete lie. But it's pretty stunning when you go through here. Seagal Chada who we've had on the show many many times has done is doing a sweeping investigation of all things voter fraud on the 2020 election. What say you sir?

[Mike Lindell]

Well, this is a blessing, Stephen. You're going to see this happening all across our country. It actually kind of ties in. You guys all seen smartmat my machine one of the machine companies that sued me for defamation. A judge ruled last week in Minneapolis that might defame him. Well let me and my pillow and my pillow. So Steve, if I don't appeal this which I'm gonna everybody I'm gonna appeal this if I don't it was set of precedents that you can't question your government if it involves a private enterprise or private company which these voting machines are. So you would never be able to question them because that would be defamation when our first Amendment right of free speech. So Steve, we're going full forge appealing this and and I'll go to the 8th district where I did win the $5 million appeal everybody. But I'm going to quick get in some good news you guys. What does this all mean you guys, we just in Dallas county last week they won. They're get they're going to in the primary paper ballots hand counted in this huge Dallas County. Absolutely not. No tabulators, no machines, just paper ballots and count it, Steve. It's going to be beautiful. We're coming into a beautiful times here.

[Steve Bannon]

Mike. The Bora and posse has had a long tough day with the speech at Guantana at Quantico and then the amazing what President Trump went back did and did with the with the drug manufacturers particularly our favorite Pfizer. And now we've got antifa rolling out. It's going to be another night of confrontation in Portland. People are looking for a deal. What do you got for us, sir?

[Mike Lindell]

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[Donald Trump]

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[Donald Trump]

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[Steve Bannon]

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[Mike Lindell]

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[Steve Bannon]

God bless you, Michael. And I'll see you tomorrow morning, 10:00am in the 10:00 clock hour. Mike Lindell. Thank you, by the way. People ask me all the time, well, have I missed the move on gold? You guys start at 1100 30, 800. Don't look for me for an answer for that. Find the answer within yourself. Start with texting Bannon B A N N O N at 989-898. Get the ultimate guide for investing in gold and precious metals in the Age of Trump from Birch Gold. And talk to Philip Patrick and the team next hour. I'm going to give you the where you go to get the knowledge and information. You need to answer that question yourself. But right now, start with the ultimate guide. Short break. Mark Mitchell is going to come back with six hours. Six hours away right now, even as we speak from a government shutdown. What does it all mean to the world of maga? Next. You know, I didn't know this until the guys at Field of Greens, the doctors and the experts told me about it and then gave me information. It was fascinating. We have two ages, our actual age and our body's internal biological age. Additionally, what I didn't know is I've likely lowered my biological age without even knowing it. Here's the thing. Because Americans eat so many processed and ultra processed foods and not enough fruits and vegetables, many, perhaps most, are 10 years older on the inside than their actual age. They're ticking time bombs. A major university study suggests how to slow aging and diffuse that biological time bomb. Participants slowed their aging by drinking Field of Greens. That's all. They didn't change their eating, drinking, or exercise. Just Field of Greens. I feel great knowing Field of Greens can slow how quickly I'm aging. And I encourage you to join me. Swap your untested fruit, vegetable or green drink for Field of Greens while there's time. Check out the university study. I want you all to read it and get 20% off when you use promo code [e-mail] that's FieldofGreens.com promo code Bannon. Read the university study. Find out how you can slow down your internal biological clock by using this amazing formula which you just add to your favorite drink. Art of Water, what you do at the Worm every day. And in addition, you will get an energy boost. That's fieldofgreens.com promo code Bannon. You get 20% off. Do it today.