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April
April, how do you see the US China relationship moving forward? Are you able to combine this tough competition with also collaboration?
Donald Trump
So I've always had a very good relationship with President Xi and with President Putin. Talk about, you know, the larger powers, but I've always had a very good relationship with President Xi of China. He's an incredible man. What he's done is amazing. He's highly respected by everybody. And I do now. I mean, now I have good. It was very severely interrupted by Covid. I used to call it the China virus, but he said, do you think you could use a different name? And I decided to do that because why should we have a problem over that? But I would do that.
April
And they were a true diplomat, huh?
Donald Trump
I became a diplomat for the first time. Well, you know who taught me that? Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio. He said, let me teach you about diplomacy. Hey, any guy that gets approved by 100% of the votes, think of it. He got liberal Democrats and radical right Republicans to approve him. He's the only one. The next one was, like, lost 45 votes. Right. But he got all 100 votes voting for him. And at first, I wasn't happy about it. I said, wait a minute. I don't like that. And now it turns out that the Democrats probably wish they didn't do that. And Marco has been fantastic. Marco, stand up, please. You have done a great job as Secretary of state. He's going to go down as the best secretary of state. And Scott. And we have Susie, who's the first female chief of staff, and she's the best chief of staff, too. And I see Howard Lutnick, who I know spoke, and Howard's fantastic. Some of the deals we're doing are great. And I want to pay particular attention because we have Chris. And Chris, you got up and spoke. I think he's the number one oil man in the world, because I was going to put Doug Burgum, who's fantastic. I don't know if Doug's here. Is Doug here? Doug Burgum is fantastic. He said, sir, there's one man better than me. And he introduced me to Chris, and he turns out to be. So we're drilling more oil and gas now than we ever have by almost double. Is that right, Chris? And on top of it, we got a lot coming out of Venezuela. So, anyway, so we're doing. We're doing great. The country is just doing great. We have great people. Thank you. And I see other people. We have Steve Witkoff. We have Jared. I got so many People, I'm in trouble because when I go back, they're going to be people with long faces. Sir, you didn't introduce. But I got so many people, and we have a lot of the greatest people anywhere in the world. I know them all. So I won't continue because we'd be here all day.
April
Thank you, Mr. President. We also know that you're a deal maker. And then maybe coming back to Greenland and Ukraine, what kind of deal, in the end, do you see between the US And Denmark? Because, you know, I guess you see it now as a negotiation going on or.
Donald Trump
Well, it's costing Denmark hundreds of millions a year to run it. And Denmark's a small country and wonderful people, but, you know, it's very expensive. It's a very big piece of ice, and it's very important. I mean, I don't want to repeat the speech, but it's very important that we use that for national and international security. That can create a power that will make it impossible for the bad guys to do anything against the perceived good ones. And it's a great block for Europe, just like, you know, Denmark was supposed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. They didn't spend the money. They didn't spend anything almost. And we'll see what happens. I just say this. NATO has treated the United States of America very unfairly. We never asked for anything. We. We never got anything. We actually took care of the needs of NATO for years and years, which I felt was always unfair. So I got NATO to pay because they're rich countries. But I think it's time that NATO step up. We're helping them with Ukraine. Without us, I think Putin would have gone all the way. I think we have it. I think Putin. I think that could have been a World War 3, if you want to know the truth, if. If Kamala was elected, or Joe, any one of those, you know, those thinkers, I think you could have ended up in World War Three. And I will say Steve Witkoff has been dealing incredibly with. But we're not going to have World War iii. We want to get it stopped, but we're not going to have World War iii. I think if I wasn't elected, I think that could have evolved into World War Three. It was a very, very bad situation, and it still is, but it's not that kind of bad. It's bad because so many young people are being killed.
April
How close do you think there is on an agreement on Ukraine? I had the pleasure of speaking with Steve Witkoff and Kushner yesterday. I know they're working hard on it. I know that they're also traveling now. Do you. Do you see this very close or still.
Donald Trump
Well, I hate to say it. I thought that was going to be. So I settled eight wars plus, and I thought that was going to be one of my easier ones. Not the easiest. Some. I settled in a matter of hours because I'm good at that stuff. You know, the United nations should be doing this. I shouldn't be doing it, but it doesn't matter. It's got to get done Saving a lot of lives. We're saving millions of lives with Ukraine, Russia. There's tremendous hatred between President Zelensky and President Putin. That's not good. That's not good for settlements, we know from dealing this abnormal hatred. With that being said, I think Russia wants to make a deal. I think Ukraine wants to make a deal, and we're going to try getting a deal done. We're getting. I think, Steve, I think I can say that we're reasonably close. What happens is, oftentimes we'll have a deal with Russia, Russia set, and President Zelensky will not do it. You saw that when he was in the Oval Office. I was not happy. And then we'll have President Zelensky who wants to make a deal, and Putin doesn't want to make the deal. It's a very difficult balance, and it's big time. And it's just. It's. It is, you know, to use a word, it's a bloodbath. It's horrible what's happening. It's a drone war. The drones are killing, you know, thousands of people a week. Thousands. We have to get it stopped. So I believe they're at a point now. I'm going to meet with President Zelensky later today. I believe they're at a point now where they can come together and get a deal done. And if they don't, they're stupid. That goes for both of them. And I know they're not stupid. But if they don't get this done, they are stupid. So I don't want to insult anyone, but you got to get this deal done. Too many people are dying. It's not worth it.
April
President Sisi is sitting on the first row here. He spoke earlier today and also complimented you on the Gaza deal. I think there will be a signing tomorrow. Of course, there are different views on this, but how important do you think this signing is on the Board of Peace? And do you think this is going to sustain? Do you think we now will See Gaza reconstructed and billions of US Dollars invested.
Donald Trump
I do. I mean, I think we have peace in the Middle East. There are some little situations like Hamas. And Hamas has agreed to give up their weapons. Now, you know, they were born with a weapon in their hand, so it's not easy to do. When they were born, they were born with a rifle in their hand. It's not an easy thing for them. But they, that's what they agreed to. They've got to do it. And we're going to know, Jared, over the next two or three days, certainly over the next three weeks, whether or not they're going to do it. If they don't do it, they're going to have. They'll be blown away very quickly. They'll be blown away. You know, we have 59 countries that are part of that whole peace deal and some of those countries aren't even in. They're near the Middle east, but they're not in the Middle east traditionally. And they want to come in and take out Hamas. They want to come in, they want to do whatever they can. There's a problem with Hezbollah in Lebanon and we'll see what happens there. But that's a problem. But there are these little flames, but there's peace in the Middle East. Now. Had we not gone in and knocked out with those big, beautiful. We just ordered 25 brand new ones, the latest and the greatest, the B2 bomber. Think of them. They went in there at 2 o' clock in the morning with no moon, no light, no nothing. And every single one of those massive bombs hit its target. Hundred thousand pound bombs hit its target, every one of them. And then on top of it, From a submarine 300 miles away, we hit the sites with tomahawks, which is an unbelievable weapon. So, you know, we did our job. If we didn't do that, you would have never had peace in the Middle east. And the countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar could never have, and others could never have signed anything because you would have had this dark cloud. And the dark cloud was Iran with nuclear. Iran would, if we didn't take them out, they would have had a nuclear weapon. Within two months. They were very close to having the nuclear weapon. And we hit them hard and it was a total obliteration. If they, they may try again, but they're going to have to try from a different area because that area was obliterated. Incredible thing we did. And because we did that, we were able to make peace. If we didn't do that, I would say, Jared, And Steve, if we didn't do that, there was no chance of making peace because the countries I just named and other countries could have never signed off. They were afraid. They were afraid. We had a bully. The bully was Iran. The bully of the Middle east, they used to call it. For years they were the bully of the Middle East. They're not the bully of the Middle east anymore.
April
Mr. President, I know you even had to change plane last night, so I guess you didn't have much sleep, but I think you're, but your energy is still there. I know you have several bilateral meetings. I know you're also hosting a reception. So thank you so much for coming back to Davos. Thank you so much. It's highly appreciated.
Donald Trump
Well, thank you very much. Thank you, everybody, very much.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, right there. Welcome to the war room. It's Wednesday, 21st January. Can we get the sound again? I want to hear the applause of President Trump leaving the stage. Let's go to kicking the sound. Can we? No. Oh, Davos. Cut it off. They didn't want to see the thunderous applause. This is the 21st of January, year of our Lord 2026. You're in the war room. President Trump. Let me just put in perspective. They took off last night from Andrew's Air Force base. They had to turn around because they had a mechanical problem or electrical problem. Air Force had to return around. He, he returned to, he returned to Andrews. They change, I think they changed planes. He got. So they're three hours late. By the way, we've got Jack Posobic in the room and Brian Glenn. We're going to get to both of those. We're live at Davos. As soon as we get those two guys up, we will, of course, real America's voice in the worm is going to be in the room. So, President Trump, have you ever taken a red eye? Have you particularly ever taken an extended red eye? You know, even. And the President's got a very nice birthing quarter up towards the front of Air Force One. But it's still, it's like you sleep in one of those first class, you sleep in one of those first class compartments. You know, it's still a red eye. And it's extended red eye. He gets off the plane, gets on the helicopter, he's there and he only starts the speech, I think, 20 minutes later. Supposed to be 8:30am Eastern Standard Time for us here in the United States in the Imperial capital. Early afternoon in Davos. He just, they say, oh, Trump's 78 years old. However, he just gave I think an hour and 50 minute speech and then he did 20 or 30 minutes of Q A with the new head of World Economic Forum. Although Larry Fink is really the head, this is the, the day to day head. And, and the. I thought the guy asked excellent questions. Those are really, those are not wasted time. They were not softballs. He asked good questions. The. And so and President Trump said over two hours and now he's going to go into one bilateral and these are heavy meetings. You know, it's about Ukraine, it's about Gaza, it's what he's going to do on, on Greenland. I've got nor bin Laden, John Solomon. People are going to tee up as we get on. Robert Greenway from Heritage is going to be here too with two disturbing reports today. One, Peter Schweitzer. Peter is supposed to be with us this morning. I've moved him to tomorrow so we can have more time with Peter and his blockbuster new book. The story that they broke today was about the Chinese Communist Party training their pilots here, oftentimes on taxpayer money in the United States. I know that's hard to believe. Greenway's also got a very disturbing piece about war games have been going on about the reality about the American military, particularly in the Western Pacific. We're going to get to all this. Solomon's going to join us. He's got a blockbuster story. I think the perspective. Mark Carney's being teed up as the, as the new head of the globalist alliance with his speech yesterday. Dr. Thayer, Captain Fanell, Noor, bin Laden, we're all going to break it down. And President Trump just came in and let me be polite, gave a beat down. So he called Macron out. He called Mark Carney out to his face. So there's two perspectives here. Let me just give you the yin and the yang or the bid and the ask if you're a globalist. You just think that Trump flew into Davos and went full gangster. If you're a nationalist, it's the greatest speech since Pericles at Athens. There's, there's no middle ground here. Now President Trump says yes, we're going to work together, et cetera. But he gave you a nationalist perspective of working from a nationalist perspective of working within a community of nations. Mark Carney has teed up essentially what they want the New World Order to be, which is around the Chinese Communist Party. I might also add that gold is hurtling towards $5,000 an ounce and silver just backed off. It was about to breach $100 an ounce, that would be two barrels of oil for an ounce of silver. Put that in perspective. Backed off a little bit. We're going to talk about the world capital markets, all of it. I've got Nour Bin Laden is nor bin Laden with me. I want nor bin Laden. You've been doing this for us for a long time. He did it for a long time before that. Mark Carney yesterday. Like I said, my perspective is if you're a globalist in the audience, you think Trump's a gangster, Right? And if you're a nationalist, you think Trump is Pericles at Athens. It's that. I mean, it was just a fabulous speech. Your thoughts, ma'.
Donald Trump
Am.
Noor bin Laden
Listen, regardless on which side you find yourself on, the aura is undeniable. And you had the standing ovation as he entered the room. You had the standing ovation as he exited. So there is no one like President Trump on the world stage. And you saw it just in his arrival and Davos, you know, with Marine One and the red carpet and just the show of military might and of power and of position of leadership that the United States of America has on the world stage. So it's just undeniable. They have to contend with that simple fact. And President Trump is the leading figure of the world. He is actually showing tremendous leadership in various different aspects for his own country, but also with regards to matters of geopolitical issues. So the speech was very interesting. If I may, I'll just say my favorite, my absolute favorite part to start with was the part about the windmills and how the people who buy the windmills are just so stupid to quote him directly. That was my favorite part out of the whole speech. But he just slammed down so many different aspects of the globalist agenda.
Stephen K. Bannon
But let's hang on, hang on. Let's take. Let's take windmill. Hang on, Nora. Let's take windmills as it was serious because he made two compelling points. He uses windmills as an example of the intermittent energy you get from what he calls the green new sample from the cult of climate change, of which the lead cultists, the Broligarchs, have now abandoned. Because as Larry Fink, who was the worst, remember the. This is what a hypocrite Larry Fink is. He was the absolute worst because he ran, you know, over a trillion dollars worth of, worth of money market funds and worth of stock funds where he put in esg, he put in those requirements that you had to basically inculcate the, the green agenda into your. Into your business, or they wouldn't want to invest in the company. Two, if they invest the company, they would vote against you with their shares. So he's the biggest. He said, yes. So you can't have intermittent power. In fact, he said you can't have wind and solar. We need, you know, we need nuclear or we need to burn dirty coal. You need to do whatever you do on these data centers with President Trump, go into the windmills. Because he said, number one, anywhere you see a lot of windmills, you don't see a vibrant energy economy like in Germany and other places. They're hurting. That's one. Number two, he goes, china's making them and sell them all over the world. But you don't have massive wind farms. I can't find massive wind farms in China. He uses these very simple things that are accessible to the common man to explain quite complicated, quite complicated problems. And that's how he delivers the hammer blows, ma'.
Donald Trump
Am.
Noor bin Laden
Exactly. It's the hammer blow to the green news scam, how he refers to it in his speech. And he just. With these examples. And the windmill one, as you say, is so telling. And people can really visualize and understand it. And I myself, when I'm driving around here in Europe and I see those windmills, it actually pains me so much. It does absolutely ruin the landscape. It does absolutely kill the birds. And he was absolutely spot on when he said that the Chinese people are probably mocking us for buying these things in the first place when they don't even use them. So he's just a master communicator. And he is so naturally gifted when it comes to just his. His humor. He is a very humorous person speaking about incredibly serious topics. And he said one very basic truth, in plain English, you know, the more windmills a country has, the more it loses. And you have all of these people that go to Davos, you know, they, I listen to these panels and it's so much word salad. And sometimes you, you leave those sessions and you're like, what do they actually talk about? Because it's just so empty. But President Trump is just straight to the point, hammering those point out for everybody to understand, the audience itself and us who are watching closely and paying attention to what's going on on the global stage. So, no, many, many incredible points. Obviously, the economic side of the United States. The key question, Greenland, which he put out incredibly saying, oh, I wasn't going to say a few words on Greenland, but actually, would you like me to say a few words on Greenland? And Obviously everybody was hanging on the edge of the seat to see what President Trump was going to say today on Greenland. And all of the points he made about that specific question were so spot on. And he is absolutely right. You know, after World War II, we went from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana. And I often refer to this segment he did with Sean Hannity a few years ago, I believe in 2019 where he asked that question. He's like how the hell did that happen? How did the United States of America become the policeman and the watch dog of the world and you know, at the cost of the American taxpayer And he the United States of America should absolutely get a return on investment in that sense. If you look at the past 70 plus years of all the money of all the expenditure, including to this very day, as President Trump rightly pointed out, with the conflict happening in Eastern Europe. So it makes complete sense and we will see what happens. I believe he will actually manage and succeed to take Greenland.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well the thing that happened here they're talking about the rupture and Carney's speech yesterday and we're bringing Dr. Thayer. We got a lot of folks to get to today and and need you to hang around nor because we're going to get back into it. You know, Pax Britannica basically from the end of the Napoleonic War and the Congress of Vienna in 1815 also that's both Waterloo and the Battle of New Orleans. They are kind of inextricably linked because part of it was making sure the British that really ended the revolution here told the British North America is ours. We're manifest destiny. I think it's the only time in history is Wellington's best part of his army that had been fighting in Spain forever on the peninsula. We destroyed it on the plains outside of New Orleans. General Andrew Jackson, I think it's the only time in British history 3 Major Generals killed in combat. The same time you had Waterloo after the Congress of Vienna, you had this Pax Britannica. The Royal Navy basically kept the peace. There were yes, There were some 1848. There were some definitely some conflicts but nothing Boer War, all these kind of side wars. I would say until the guns of August in 1914. Now that led to what 30 years of conflict ended with dropping a hot one over the empire, the Empire of Japan and firebombing Tokyo and Kyoto and other places into oblivion along with Dresden to end the fascist and imperial try to conquest the world led by the United States industrial power and 35 million Russians killed by the Wehrmacht and another 30 million Chinese. Lao Beijing killed by the Japanese Imperial Japanese army and the Communists. That packs Americana and the new world order that came after it. The post war international rules based order just like they had the Congress of Vienna that had the British pound as the primary prime reserve currency after the war. Bretton woods, the United nations, imf, NATO, seato. All these different, either military alliances and, or financial and commercial alliances lasted until basically the late Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall where both the people in the Russia decided, hey, look, after the war you basically let Joseph Stalin run the place. That was not good with us. We hate these guys. You gave them Eastern Europe. That's still questionable. How that happened I believe as McCarthy and others pointed out, because the State Department and the Roosevelt administration was full of KGB activists, agents that helped Yalta and other places to look the other way. Also we turned China over to the Chinese Communist Party who had not lifted a finger to fight the Japanese because we got sucked into that. And there were Communists all throughout the State Department in the China hands. So we turned it over basically in 1989, within six months of each other. Nobody ever wants to connect this. Tiananmen Square in June, follow the Berlin Wall November Lao Beijing. And the Russian people said, and people in Eastern Europe said no, no, we can't do this anymore. And what did we do? Immediately Scowcroft sent folks over, Bush sent, Bush 41 sent Scowcroft over to tell Den Xiao Ping in this crowd, hey, hey, hey, you just got to ease up. You can't be killing, can't be murdering 10,000 people in Tiananmen Square and through the, in tens of thousands, through the rest of China. That looks bad on tv. We got to tone down and guess what? We, we will work out a business deal. We'll get wto, we'll do that. We'll turn you into the manufacturing base of a new global order. This is what Bush was talking about when he used that phrase, I think at the Houston, when he gave that speech in Houston. And so what you had is you had a post war international rules based order is what they call it. But it was weighed against the American working class, the American middle class. You basically paid for everything. All the trade deals were upside down. If you look at NATO, if you look at the, around the Persian Gulf in the Middle east, you go and look around the South China Sea and all the indigenous, all the, you know, countries around that, and then you go up to north Northwest Asia with Japan and Korea, you had Commercial relationships. We're upside down on every trade deal. We are. There's capital markets where we're funding the growth there, either through the Marshall Plan or other. So there's capital markets, there is some culture interchange, no doubt about that. But there's an American security guarantee. The sons and daughters of the American working class and middle class are on patrol in the Hindu Kush, or they're at the was a 33rd parallel at, in, in Korea, or they're on a ship in the South China Sea on patrol, or they're now the 101st Airborne Brigade in Romania, not in Minnesota. Right. You're paying for all that. And President Trump is essentially saying, and Carney said yesterday, we got to stop the fiction. Well, the fiction is, Carney, that you guys are picking up your share and that you're an ally. You're not an ally. Just like Israel's not allies. You guys are not allies. You're protectorates. And the American people. This is the rise of the populist nationalist movement here. This is the basis of maga, that guess what? America comes first. American security comes first. The economics for American citizens, American citizens come first. And as imperfect as President Trump is, he is shattering that system. And a new system is forming here that puts American security and American citizens first. The simplest way to say this is step one is to focus on hemispheric defense. This is the centrality of Greenland. And what President Trump is trying to make the case is the central issue of Greenland in the Arctic being the northern flank of the United States. And we have to control the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap because we don't have confidence you guys can do it because you don't put any money in into your military and you particularly don't put any money into a combatant navy. That we have to do it. And yes, we're going to have to control this space in order to do it. And there are going to be other benefits because the bad guys we're stopping are also bad guys that would take a bite out of you. And this is what Carney and all his. And there's playing up Carney like he's Lincoln at Gettysburg or the second inaugural address, that he's some great thinker and great spoken. President Trump called this brother out to his face at Davos. He had a funny story about Macron. It's the reason Macron left. He had a funny story about Macron, about how weak and sad he is. But Carney, he looked right at him and said, hey, bro, we essentially defend you and Remember that before you start, you know, before you talk smack again, remember, we have your defense and people in Canada have to understand this. We have paid for your defense for decade after decade and a decade. And what did I say six or nine months ago? That Ukraine, that Canada is potentially the next Ukraine, that Arctic north, the Chinese Communist Party and Russia. The great game of the 21st century is in the Arctic. Why do you think? Why in the hell you think Trump, who can think this stuff through as much as he's doing in Latin America with the bailout of Argentina and the situation of Venezuela and trying to control the oil from Guyana to Venezuela to the Gulf of America, Mexico and Texas to get you the biggest oil power known in history by 10x. He's spending so much time in Greenland, he understands the strategic importance of it. President Trump, I believe, is the greatest strategic thinker, thinker and man of action we've ever had in the presidency. This is why I say Washington, Lincoln and Trump. And you saw it today, and he called Carney out to his face, said, bro, watch the smack talk, because we are basically your protector. Short break. It's about Davos. It's about America first, about American citizens first. We are packed in every segment. Noah Bin Laden is going to stick with me. Back in a moment.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, Noor's gonna write shotgun in Switzerland. I want to go now to Davos. Brian Glenn. Brian Glenn. You just heard it. You've been there. First off, the guy gets off a plane that's three hours late. So he's taking like, I don't know, a 12 hour red eye. I used to do that for a living. And I'm telling you, it's hard enough to go to a meeting. It's impossible to go and give a two hour speech and then take 30 minutes of really good questions from the new head of the functional head of World Economic Forum. Talk to us about. You were there. What do you got? Yeah, I agree.
Brian Glenn
Good morning everybody. America is back. And that absolutely was the speech that I expected from President Trump to deliver and what I would call a very anticipated appearance here at the World Economic Forum. Now, Steve, I'm just outside. I'll step aside so you have a better look of one of the USA houses here in Davos. This is the main strip. This is where all the corporate America, this is where all the governments are set up. This is where all of your interest 840 CEOs and businesses are along this stretch here. Now the other USA house that's set up just around this corner. In the next hit, we'll walk down there and giving an idea. Steve, there is probably hundreds of protesters outside that USA house. You've got all kinds of nations, people, flags. Everyone's trying to represent their point of view. A lot of it has been an anti war theme from what we can see as we drove by. But in the next hit, Steve, I'll come from you live outside the USA house and cover that protest for you.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, Brian, in fact, I think a lot of maga, which I said, hey, what President Trump is doing is America first and it is inextricably linked back because we are part of a global economy. It's inextricably linked back here to American citizens and you can see that by how he's doing it. But President Trump, I don't know how they're bitching and moaning about anti war. I mean, I think the MAGA folks even say, hey look, there's too much time on Ukraine, it's too much time on Gaza. And he sits there today because remember, and I put a post up on Getter earlier about the Nomas deportations he talked about yesterday. President Trump has got a big heart. They think it's a cold guy. He's the opposite of cold guy. He's sitting there today says, Hey, 20,000 guys are getting killed a month, whatever it is in Ukraine. He says we got to stop these wars. I don't know what the anti war crowd wants more of Trump. He's probably the most anti war guy out there. The Israelis, the Greater Israel Project, wanting to take down the Iranian regime and take it. He says, no, I'm going to do the 12 day war I'm ending by taking out the nuclear program. He's got Zelinsky one even invited this year. I don't think Zelinsky's coming today to meet with Trump to try to end the Ukraine war. Why are these anti war protesters outside USA House when Trump is the, he's the peacemaker, is he not?
Donald Trump
Yeah.
Brian Glenn
Did he not rattle off eight foreign wars that he has essentially ended. And no, you've got an excellent point there. Maybe we can talk to some of them when we get over there. But you know, it seems like everyone has some sort of agenda or some sort of item that they're protesting. A lot of it has been big business. And I heard a gentleman walking by earlier, some of these hotel rooms up and down the street that rent for thousands a night, I'm talking about $10,000 for just a few nights. If it wasn't for Davos, these rooms only go for about 100 bucks. So if they want to protest any of the corruption in the world, let's protest the way this country, this city right here has hoard out. Corporate America has been nothing but greed. We have 840 CEOs here and you got 76 heads of state here. That is a Don't pick on what capitalism?
Stephen K. Bannon
Don't pick on little Davos. They're trying to, they're trying to get it from all the swells throughout the world, all the global show up. Brian, go watch your social media so you can follow. You go down there and get in the middle of the protest and ask them. I said, hey, what more do you want Trump to do about ending wars if he's anti war, more anti war than you are, what's your social media?
Brian Glenn
That's exactly what I'm going to ask these, these people at Brian Glenn TV on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook, at Brian on Truth Social. By the way, the Ukraine house is just right behind us and I think I had to kind of quietly walk by that house for obvious reasons, but maybe I'll go back and see if we can't end that war as well.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, so knock on the door, knock on the door. Steve Zelensky there we get an exclusive interview on War Room. Thank you Brian Glenn, appreciate you.
John Solomon
Thank you.
Stephen K. Bannon
Ukraine House forever was. They didn't even, they didn't even have an America House. When I say house, they had these locations where everything around that country goes. We interviewed Scott Bessant yesterday, the Secretary treasury start the show for a 30 minute interview from America House. So that's where everything galvanized around. There's two pieces today I want people to focus on. First off, Peter Schweitzer. We're going to do an hour with Peter in the start of the hour before the Davos speech, President Trump kind of got rearranged. Peter's going to be with us tomorrow at 11 o' clock to talk about his new book. Was it Silent Coup. The A book that you have to get. I want to put that cover up. I got Rob Greenway from Heritage. There's two pieces out this morning, one on Breitbart. That's an exclusive about Peter's book about U.S. training and taxpayers paying for the training of Chinese Communist Party pilots. Yes, lots of them, thousands of them in the United States to be part of the PLA Air Force. That will be the air force that will attack our carrier battle groups in the South China Sea in the Straits of Taiwan. Rob, your piece is as disturbing as that is just because it's ridiculous we do this. Yours is actually more disturbing. And I want everybody. It's exclusive over at Fox Digital. It is about a war gaming that's been taking place and the realities of that war gaming. And it sounds like Captain Fanatic wrote this about us not being totally prepared. The results of that and I guess Department of War, some people have been trying to redact it because they don't really want the American people to know how deep a problem we have. Rob, I'll let you take it. It's a very disturbing piece. Give us the background of this and what does it tell us?
Rob Greenway
Sure, and thanks for having me on. What we've done for the last year is the first and only artificial intelligence enabled protracted conflict simulation between the United States and China to address the strategic question of when either side would culminate, no longer be able to conduct operations because of a lack of fuel and ammunition or attrition that results from the conflict itself. And so we looked at year long conflict scenarios and we simulated at scale so that we could be confident in our results. We hear oftentimes as you do that we have problems with fuel and ammunition. I think that's well known. What isn't well known until now is exactly why and exactly on what day we run out of exactly what municipality or fuel on both sides. And so the redactions were done at our discretion based on consultation with friends in the administration and in the departments and agencies of our government responsible for the China threat. And our conclusion was that we had identified critical vulnerabilities on the Chinese side that should be exploited. And we didn't want to give them early warning by publishing it. And so they were redacted. And we also identified an enormous amount of US vulnerabilities, most of which are in the report because we have to correct them, some of which were so sensitive we decided that we would redact them. A voluntary step on the part of the Heritage Foundation. But I think the right one because we're obviously on Team America in the end. The bottom line is the United States in most scenarios will culminate, will run out of fuel and ammunition before the Chinese do. And by significantly, I mean potentially within 30 to 35 days in some scenarios. Whereas the Chinese can generally consistently sustained a conflict between 180 and 365 days without a tremendous amount of difficulty unless significant actions are taken. And those are outlined in the reports for both the US and the Chinese side.
Stephen K. Bannon
How does it, if you break it down between ammunition, personnel and fuel with full spectrum energy dominance, and now Venezuela, Ghana, all that in China's, basically we cut them off from Venezuela. I've been arguing you got to cut them off from the Persian oil coming in those tankers through the Straits of Hormuz. The part of this I don't understand, walk me through how they have more longevity on fuel or ammo than we have, sir.
Rob Greenway
No, you're exactly right. And so this was designed to answer that question. So from our perspective, the United States has sufficient fuel.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, hang on, hang on, hang on. I can't, I can't be, I can't, I can't be, I can't be, I can't be exactly right because you're telling me the artificial intelligence tells you no ban, and you're actually technically wrong. Right? I mean, you would think that we would have at least fuel, possibly ammo, but you're saying, hey, fuel and ammo, we're out, and we're out in a month. They last six months. That's a pretty big, that's a, that's a orders of magnitude discrepancy. How does that work?
Rob Greenway
Yeah, yeah, that it equates to defeat. Now, on our side for fuel, we have sufficient fuel, but we don't have the throughput capacity. We can't transport it, and we haven't even requested the assets to do it. And that's in an uncontested or mildly contested environment. If it's seriously contested, and it probably would be, we definitely don't have the assets to get it there. And so we make recommendations to expand our Strategic Petroleum reserve to fill it first to capacity and then make sure the infrastructure is on the west coast where it's required. But we also don't have the vessels, the ships to transport it, and we haven't even ordered them. These are problems. The worst problems are the ones you haven't identified and for which there is no corrective action. And this report, unfortunately is full of them. Now, on the Chinese side for fuel, they have a 1.2 billion barrel. Actually, I think it's 1.3 billion barrel strategic petroleum reserve, which gives them an enormous shock absorber in a conflict scenario. And again, their commute to work in a Taiwan first island chain, second island chain conflict, is much shorter than ours. We're going the other side of the planet and our demand for resources is going to be higher now. So from a fuel perspective, specific actions and recommendations we make will get them to reduce that. And the report details it ammunition wise. They've been actively expanding their inventory of long range precision munitions, the things you need most. And so they have an advantage, but it's slight. And there also have several external dependencies which we could exploit on our side munitions. It is a stockpile issue. It is also a throughput issue. We identify both in there. So in some cases it's lack of supply. In some cases we just have lack of transport. We enumerate this in exhaustive detail in the report. And the artificial intelligence part of it is critical because the scale of information to model the Chinese and American fuel and ammunition systems, the entirety of them, is so massive that we had to leverage technological advances to do it. And that's what the report does.
Stephen K. Bannon
This is so important, and this is what Heritage does best. What I'm going to do is come back to you. We're going to take an hour, maybe two hours on a Saturday, and I want to get Fannel and we'll get other because this is so important. The Warren posse has to understand this. And there's a phrase there that Captain Fennell has been saying, the buried lead here is what Fanell has been banging on the tables now for years. And even as you talk about these military operations we've had in Iran with the, with the nuclear issue and Takeo Maduro, his point, he keeps saying, he says, hey, guys, this is great. We're on a roll. These expeditionary hits are fantastic, but they're not seriously contested. That is the operant phrase in this war game, bro. You're off the coast of China and you're defending the first island chain, and you're fighting around Taiwan, in the Straits of Taiwan, South China Sea, East China Sea. It's a big difference. They have a home field advantage like nobody's business. So we got to break it down. Rob, until that time, where do people go? You're over at the Allison center at Heritage. I want to make sure people go to your website in the center, get more information you guys have in your social Media, sir.
Rob Greenway
Yes, sir. I'd encourage Everybody go to heritage.org and download the tidal wave report or take a look at it. And then I'm at RC Greenway on X and on Truth Social. Thanks for having me, Steve. Appreciate it.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you. Fantastic work. And we're going to get back to you this afternoon to set something up. Just fantastic. We got to spend more time on this. This sets the framework for, you know, Carney being over in Beijing talking about a new world order, etc. So John Solomon's going to join us. He's got another explosive exclusive that's coming out. It's coming, it's actually come out right before President Trump took the stage. We got John Solomon. Jason Trenner is going to sit here and put it in economic perspective exactly what's going on. Nor Ben lund's with me, Dr. Thayer, hopefully Captain Fennell. We're going to get to Poso. Poso was actually in the room. So we're packed wall to wall this morning. And the president get, like I said, if you're a nationalist, it was Pericles at Athens. If you're a globalist, Trump went full gangster. And man, he did. It was a beat down like I haven't seen before. And no, no give up, no surrender, no retreat. One lesson coming out today I think is that we're in for a turbulent geopolitical future. We don't. We call this a fourth turning gold approaching 5,000 bucks. Silver approaching 100 bucks. It ain't the price. We've been telling you this for years. It's the process. It's what drives value pattern recognition. Make sure you got it. Two ways you can do it. One, the all roads lead to Philip Patrick and the team at Birch Gold. Two ways. Number one, take your phone and attacks Bannon B A N N O N at 989-898, you get the ultimate guide for investing in gold and precious metals. Don't forget silver in the age of Trump. The other is to go and go to birchgold.com promo code Bannon. End of the dollar empire. Carney and particularly Ursula's speech yesterday was like ripped from the pages of this report. Make sure you get to it today and get to Philip Patrick at Birch Gold. Do it today.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, and all this in the speech. John Solomon joins me. John, for all the nationalist President Trump went off on Carney and all of it against the globalists. He did stick in there as president. Trump has won to do that. The 2020 election was stolen. And he said, hey, in a couple of days there's gonna be some developments you're gonna hear about, about the prosecution of this. You've got a breaking story that gets to the heart of the deep state. That's a blockbuster. Can you take us through that?
John Solomon
Yeah. First, what the President is talking about is some documents that are going to be declassified from ODNI and the Justice Department and some new indictments coming. So as I said on your show last week, the machinery is finally ramped up, they're finally staffed and you're going to start to see a significant wave of indictments. Pam Bondi's in Minneapolis. I think you will see some of the funders of these protests indicted soon for bank and tax criminality. So keep an eye on that. I think we're going to use the tax law like they did with Al Capone to go after these funding groups and say they said they were doing X, but they're doing Y and that violates their tax status. So keep an eye on Pam Bondi in Minneapolis with Cash Patel. There isn't an accident. They landed on the ground there. It wasn't for optics. It was for indictments. And then I think you'll see some stuff on elections. Keep an eye on Tulsi Gabbard. She's been working on some really amazing declassification that I think will blow all of our minds soon. And I think that's going to be a big moment. This story is important because after the Russia collusion delusion, after Crossfire Hurricane, Chris Wray told the American public, yeah, it wasn't a good idea to use Christopher Steele, but we fixed our human sources. We got our informants under control. No more biases, no more foreign influence. Remember, Christopher Steele was a British MI6 agent who hated Trump and was being paid by Hillary Clinton. Well, three years later, after January 6th, Chris Wray did not deliver on his word. The FBI on Chris Wray's watch, starting just a few days after January 6, 2021, started treating a viciously anti Trump group called the Sedition Hunters. By the way, they're welcome to their opinion. That's not the problem. They started treating them as human informants, confidential sources. They pay them over $150,000. The members of this group. The members of this group were doing something that should have been done by the FBI or by FBI contractors above board using facial recognition software to figure out who people were who had attacked cops or penetrated the Capitol so they could figure out their identity and arrest them. If you had a cop, you're going to get arrested. But why did the FBI do that? Makes no sense. Every FBI person who alerted to me this over the last few months have said, we have contractors that do this. This isn't a confidential sourcing. I think a lot of people in Congress, when they get these documents are going to be asking this question, was this FBI money going to an opposition research project? Sedition Hunters was on social media day in and day out building the case that this was a Donald Trump riot conspiracy and the FBI's money is flowing to them, even though they have biases, even though the emails we made public today show that they knew this group had foreign. In fact, this work was being done overseas. It should have been done. These are Americans being targeted. The FBI should have done it here. That is it. It's Christopher Steele 2.0.
Stephen K. Bannon
John, here's what's so disturbing because I know I would say you and Cash, I would say, are the optimists in this, that the FBI can be reformed. And if you get new personnel in there, these Guys gotta be let go. I take a harder line. I say you got to take the counterterrorism part and put it over with. I don't know, Tulsi or whatever. And you got to go back to law enforcement. That's got to be assigned to the U.S. attorneys. I think you take the whole thing down. But, and here's, I think when I read your report, I go fricking Solomon gave me the best ammunition I'm ever going to have. Because if, if there wasn't a sustenance, look what Ray did in your story, people's heads are going to blow up. Sedition hunters are just not some marginal group. They are central left wing influence operation on the outside that they obviously funded and supported.
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Stephen K. Bannon
I mean this is only the surface. We have no earth yet.
John Solomon
Dnt who knows how much we don't have. All the dollars.
Stephen K. Bannon
And the support, the behind the scenes information they may have been getting from the FBI. How did no one, this is 21. How did no one in the system go to Congress, go to, you go to investigative reporters? Anybody in the system come forward and said, hey, Ray and Barr are doing this. The institution is doing this. How did no one, how. Why are we finding out about now? Because cash with no help happens to be burned through a bunch of files and finds it himself. Sir, this has been almost five years old.
John Solomon
Well, there are a bunch of FBI agents that are cooperating. I've met with some of them. These agents are extraordinary. They're heroes. But here's the reason why. Remember some of those whistleblowers that you and I have had on their shows, very quickly after Biden came in, anyone who dared to blow the whistle under the January 6th investigation got eviscerated. Their security clearances were pulled, their salaries were stopped and they were bankrupted. So if you're an agent and you got to feed those two kids at the dinner table, you're going to bite the bullet until a time when you know that you're going to get an honest hearing. The inspector general didn't protect those whistleblowers. Those whistleblowers were targeted because as the inspector general just reported now confirming our story from three years ago, people were targeted based on whether they supported Trump or whether they were Second Amendment advocates. I want you to think about that. The FBI pulled security clearances because someone like Donald Trump or the Second Amendment, which is by the way guaranteed in the Constitution, that was what was going on. So whistleblowers trying to preserve their livelihood and their pension, if they had 18 years in, you're not going to take a risk when you know, when you report it, no one's going to do it. What's happening now? Whistleblowers are coming. Fist over glove to Kash Patel, to the Senate, to the House, and they're telling all the dirty secrets. And I have a different take on the FBI and it's probably closer to what I think the President seems to talk about a lot. The FBI is doing great work right now. We had the lowest murder rate in a long time. We stopped five or six or seven terror attacks. We stopped a whole bunch of school shootings. Remember what the FBI would tell us during the Biden years? Oh, we knew about the guy, but we didn't get to him in time. We stopped a lot of school shootings last year. Stopped a lot of things. It's doing its work again. But you will never stop what the Democrats did unless you put the people who did it in prison. It wasn't an institution that did it. It was bad actors at the top. And if we don't put them in handcuffs and arrest them, it will happen again. If we do, there's a disincent incentive to do it in the future.
Stephen K. Bannon
John Solomon, where do people go to get the blockbuster reports you're putting out of all these investigations? Or in your show, where to go?
John Solomon
Yeah, just the news.com J. Solomon reports on all social media and I'm lucky enough to follow you at 6:00 right here in Real America's Voice. Just the news, no noise, with the amazing Amanda Head right there.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, sir. Appreciate you more to come.
John Solomon
Thanks, buddy.
Stephen K. Bannon
Remember Chris Ray? Chris Ray was Christie's recommendation. Chris Christie, how did, how did he get back in to get close to Trump to make this recommendation? Recommendation. The most disastrous and including Powell in that, the most disastrous we had was Chris Wright. Bill Bar close second short break, second hour, more on fire even than the first. Jason Trenor is up. We're packed wall to wall. Back in two minutes.
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This episode of Bannon’s War Room captures former President Donald Trump live at Davos 2026 in a special, high-profile Q&A, followed by analysis and breakdown from Stephen K. Bannon and guests. The focus: Trump’s vision for America’s global leadership, national security, and a “nationalist” response to what the War Room consistently labels as the “globalist agenda.” The show dives deep into U.S. relations with China and Europe, peace prospects for Ukraine and Gaza, and America’s military readiness — with commentary from prominent political, economic, and national security voices.
[00:11–02:49]
Memorable Quote:
“I became a diplomat for the first time. Well, you know who taught me that? Marco Rubio…”
— Donald Trump [00:52]
[02:49–04:56]
Memorable Quote:
“NATO has treated the United States of America very unfairly...”
— Donald Trump [03:47]
[04:56–07:02]
Memorable Quote:
“If they don’t get this done, they are stupid. So I don’t want to insult anyone, but you gotta get this deal done. Too many people are dying. It’s not worth it.”
— Donald Trump [06:24]
[07:02–10:00]
Memorable Quote:
“We have 59 countries that are part of that whole peace deal...they want to come in and take out Hamas.”
— Donald Trump [08:23]
[10:38–15:32]
Memorable Quote:
“If you’re a globalist, you just think that Trump flew into Davos and went full gangster. If you’re a nationalist, it’s the greatest speech since Pericles at Athens. There’s no middle ground here.”
— Stephen K. Bannon [14:40]
[15:32–18:29]
Memorable Quote:
“There is no one like President Trump on the world stage… just the show of military might and of power and of position of leadership that the United States of America has…”
— Noor bin Laden [15:40]
“He said one very basic truth, in plain English: the more windmills a country has, the more it loses.”
— Noor bin Laden [18:16]
[21:24–21:50+]
Memorable Quote:
“The great game of the 21st century is in the Arctic. Why do you think…Trump… [is] spending so much time in Greenland, he understands the strategic importance of it.”
— Stephen K. Bannon [26:44]
[34:00–38:20]
Memorable Quote:
“He’s probably the most anti-war guy out there.”
— Stephen K. Bannon [35:47]
[39:36–45:17]
Memorable Quote:
“The United States, in most scenarios, will run out of fuel and ammunition before the Chinese do. Potentially within 30 to 35 days… The Chinese can… sustain a conflict…180 to 365 days.”
— Rob Greenway [41:11]
[49:10–56:21]
Memorable Quote:
“The FBI’s money is flowing to [Sedition Hunters], even though they have biases… It’s Christopher Steele 2.0.”
— John Solomon [51:40]
“You will never stop what the Democrats did unless you put the people who did it in prison…. If we do, there’s a disincentive to do it in the future.”
— John Solomon [55:30]
“He’s an incredible man. What he’s done is amazing. He’s highly respected by everybody.”
— Donald Trump (on Xi Jinping) [00:18]
“NATO has treated the United States of America very unfairly…”
— Donald Trump [03:47]
“I think Russia wants to make a deal. I think Ukraine wants to make a deal... And if they don't, they're stupid.”
— Donald Trump [06:24]
“If you’re a globalist...Trump went full gangster. If you’re a nationalist, it’s the greatest speech since Pericles at Athens.”
— Stephen K. Bannon [14:40]
“He is absolutely right...I believe he will actually manage and succeed to take Greenland.”
— Noor bin Laden [20:26]
“The United States, in most scenarios, will run out of fuel and ammunition before the Chinese do.”
— Rob Greenway [41:11]
“The FBI’s money is flowing to [Sedition Hunters], even though they have biases. It’s Christopher Steele 2.0.”
— John Solomon [51:40]
“You will never stop what the Democrats did unless you put the people who did it in prison.”
— John Solomon [55:30]
This summary captures the language, energy, and framing used by Bannon and guests throughout a dense, fast-paced episode, providing both newcomers and regular listeners a concise yet detailed account of Episode 5083’s substantive content.