Episode 5422: America First Means American Citizens First

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room – Episode 5422

America First Means American Citizens First

Date: June 4, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon
Main Guests: E.J. Antoni, Michael Kunstler, Taj Gill, Mike Lindell

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Brief Overview

This episode of Bannon’s War Room focuses on the central theme: “America First Means American Citizens First.” Stephen K. Bannon critiques current political leadership, labor and immigration policies, and gives a platform to guests discussing American jobs, mass immigration, the threat of AI to employment, and the importance of restoring sovereignty and medical freedom for American citizens. The show is interspersed with fiery rhetoric on the dereliction of political leadership, particularly in the Senate, and stresses volunteer-driven grassroots political change.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Political Leadership, Senate Politics, and Trump’s Endorsements

[00:34 – 11:00]

• Bannon lambasts Republican Senate leaders (John Thune, Cornyn, Cassidy, Tillis) for undermining Trump and wasting donor money (e.g., $150-$180 million spent in Texas to destroy grassroots).
• Argues the “swamp” is a “vile cesspool” of corruption and incompetence, not just a catchphrase.
• Criticizes a donor and campaign apparatus focused on money and ineffective endorsements rather than supporting real America First candidates.
• Restates the America First doctrine: “America first means American citizens first. You get a special deal. Of course you have obligations...But the little platoons of Burke, what makes this country go? The civic society underneath it...That is shattering. That is shattering.” (Bannon, 05:21)
• Concerns about elites: Bannon contends that elites (especially oligarchs and “progressive Democrats”) are disconnected from and contemptuous toward working Americans.

2. Immigration and Labor Market Displacement

[11:57 – 19:49]

• E.J. Antoni presents job data: “4 out of 5 jobs created since the pandemic have gone to foreign born workers.” (E.J. Antoni, 11:57)
• Under Trump, job growth favored native-born Americans, but after mass deportations ended under Biden, foreign born workers once again dominate job growth.
• Bannon and Antoni agree: welfare expansion and reduced work requirements have displaced native-born Americans from the labor force, with many choosing social benefits over work.
• Critique of legal immigration programs like H1B visas: Companies lay off American workers, then claim a lack of qualified staff to justify hiring foreign labor for lower wages.
• “This unfair, unfettered immigration and these endless waves have caused all kinds of problems, including cutting out the first rung on the ladder...for countless Americans.” (E.J. Antoni, 18:34)

3. Youth Disillusionment & The Rigged Economy

[19:49 – 26:19]

• Bannon raises alarm: “One third of young American men...are not in the job market and not looking...radicalizing a generation under 30, 35 years old.”
• AI as a pincer: Corporate America’s use of both mass immigration (legal and illegal) and artificial intelligence means the “game is rigged” against American citizens.
• Premium citizenship concept: “If you’re an American citizen, you come first. Let’s make American citizens a premium citizenship, a premium.” (Bannon, 20:51)
• Bannon and Antoni argue that both trade and STEM career paths have been undermined—blue-collar kids steered away from trades, STEM graduates left with poor prospects due to overhyped AI narratives and influx of foreign talent.

4. The Threat of AI and the Betrayal of Skilled Americans

[25:41 – 27:00]

• Antoni: Even elite STEM graduates now fear obsolescence, unless they master fast-moving AI skills: “If you don’t have that skill set, then you’re basically going to be excluded from a lot of those...opportunities.” (E.J. Antoni, 25:41)
• Bannon: AI is a “rear guard action”—even adapting won’t save most graduates in the long run.
• “If you believe anything an oligarch tells you about this, you’re a fool. You’re a fool and they’re playing you for fools.” (Bannon, 24:50)

5. Sovereignty, National Debt, and Economic Security

[27:16 – 34:01]

• Bannon previews upcoming discussions on the exploding national debt, an “insane bet” on AI productivity, and the unsustainable path of federal spending.
• Draws parallels to Germany’s economic decline as a warning for U.S. policymakers: “Radical woke policies have gutted the industrial strength of Germany and...selling out to the Chinese Communist Party.” (Bannon, 33:07)

6. Medical Freedom and Alternative Pharmacies

[34:01 – 38:15]

• Guest: Michael Kunstler, All Family Pharmacy
  • Founded as a response to COVID-era restrictions on medication access (e.g., ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine).
  • Empowers customers to order prescriptions online, consult with licensed doctors, and bypass bureaucratic barriers.
  • “We saw that medical freedom was taken away from the American people back during COVID...so it hurt the American people.” (Michael Kunstler, 34:21)

7. Surveillance State, FISA Section 702, and the Deep State

[38:37 – 42:26]

• Bannon attacks the extension of FISA Section 702, arguing surveillance powers have been abused against Trump supporters and should simply expire, despite Deep State/law enforcement advocacy.

8. Grassroots Business and Parallel Economies

[45:54 – 48:40]

• Guest: Taj Gill, Warpath Coffee
  • Describes his mission to roast coffee to be consumed “straight black,” critiquing standard American roasters for hiding burnt beans with sugar and cream.
  • “If you roast it correctly, you can drink it straight black.” (Taj Gill, 47:10)

9. Political Campaigning Outside Mainstream Media

[49:23 – 53:04]

• Guest: Mike Lindell (MyPillow)
  • Announces grassroots gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota, circumventing “fake news” and mainstream blackout by leveraging social media, direct action, and community events.
  • Special offers for War Room listeners as part of a broader ecosystem of pro-America business.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Political Elites & Donors:
  “Stop being simps donors. Your money is all wasted...they spent another 25 or $30 million for a scumbag like Cornyn. Look at what Cornyn's done to the President in the last couple of days.”
  — Bannon, 02:30

• On Labor Market Displacement:
  “Four out of five jobs created since the pandemic have gone to foreign born workers.”
  — E.J. Antoni, 11:57

• On America First Citizenship:
  “If you’re an American citizen, you come first. By definition of being a citizen, you get a preferred deal.”
  — Bannon, 20:51

• On Youth Radicalization:
  “One third of young American men...are not in the job market and not looking...You’re radicalizing a generation under 30, 35 years old.”
  — Bannon, 19:49

• On American STEM Graduates:
  “If you believe anything an oligarch tells you about this, you’re a fool. You’re a fool and they playing you for fools.”
  — Bannon, 24:50

• On Medical Freedom:
  “We saw that medical freedom was taken away from the American people back during COVID...so it hurt the American people.”
  — Michael Kunstler, 34:21

• On Surveillance and the Deep State:
  “We’re in a war. We’re in a war. We’re in a war at the Deep State. If you don’t...dismantle it...all it’s going to do is put Trump in prison after his term is over.”
  — Bannon, 41:25

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Timestamps for Critical Segments

• 00:34 – Bannon on Senate failures and donor waste
• 11:57 – E.J. Antoni on job displacement by foreign-born workers
• 17:32 – H1B visas and legal immigration loopholes
• 19:49 – Bannon on youth unemployment and AI threats
• 25:41 – E.J. Antoni on STEM grads and AI displacement
• 34:01 – Michael Kunstler on medical freedom and All Family Pharmacy’s mission
• 38:37 – Bannon on FISA Section 702 and Deep State surveillance
• 45:54 – Taj Gill on Warpath Coffee’s coffee philosophy
• 49:23 – Mike Lindell on grassroots gubernatorial campaign and alternative commerce

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Tone and Language

• Militant and urgent: Phrases like “primal scream of a dying regime,” “going medieval,” and repeated calls to “pray for our enemies.”
• Populist, anti-elite: Constantly draws a line between “the people” and “the swamp,” “oligarchs,” and the “Deep State.”
• Data-driven and practical: Frequent requests for hard numbers, charts, and “balls and strikes” analysis—especially from E.J. Antoni.
• Direct and combative: Strong language and calls to “turf out” or “step down” ineffective or corrupt leaders.

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Useful Links & Contact Information

• E.J. Antoni (Economic analysis): @realEJAntoni on X (formerly Twitter)
• All Family Pharmacy (Medical Freedom): allfamilypharmacy.com/bannon — use code Bannon10 or call 561-717-6794
• Warpath Coffee: warpathcoffee.com — use code WARROOM for 20% off
• Mike Lindell Gubernatorial Campaign: mikelindellgov.com
• MyPillow Special: mypillow.com/warroom — use promo code WARROOM or call 800-873-1062

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This episode is a tightly wound call to action for America First supporters, focusing on employment, sovereignty, and building alternative systems—in politics, commerce, and healthcare—to counter what Bannon views as elite and technocratic betrayal of the American working class.

Transcript

[A]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Reasons I got a free shot. 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,

[B]

I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

[A]

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. Thursday for June year overlord 2026. Todd Blanche is been put forward now as the Attorney General of the United States looking for confirmation. We read for you, the comments. Read for you the comments of. Of John Thune saying, well, you know, it's, you know, he's okay. You know, the President knows him. He looks like it's president's joints, but you never know in this. He said that. He says, never knowing this environment. This is why you're supposed to be the leader, dude. Same thing on Pulte. Okay, Let me be blunt. All they run around is want to raise money and raise to donors. Stop being simps donors. Your money is all wasted. La Civita burned $150 million in cash money in Texas to destroy the grassroots movement and to destroy Paxton. And after they were warned about it, they spent another 25 or $30 million for a scumbag like Cornyn. Look at what Cornyn's done to the President in the last couple of days. This is who he is. This is who Cassidy is. This is who Tillis. They all slobber all over Trump and want his endorsement. They all glazing constantly for his endorsement because they understand they can't win without his endorsement. And yes, there have been a lot of bad endorsements. That's not the President's problem. That's the political team around him. The same people said, oh, let's come in. Last week in Iowa with five days to go. Here's the polling, here's why it's great. You'll get one, you'll get a freebie. Just do this. Boom. Beaten. Beaten by a Maha candidate. Someone who really believed in make America healthy again. Thune is the problem. Thune is a manifestation of. Don't call it the swamp. It's too cute a term. It's the vile Cesspool of corruption and incompetence. If they were competent, you could look the other way on the corruption. If they ran the deal brilliantly. What they've done is turn the country over to foreigners. EJ is going to come in here about, you know, 3 million in the last, I don't know, 3 million jobs since 1920. 19. The 6 million jobs, 90% to foreigners. The only time you have any break at all is President Trump. Mass deportations. And Americans started getting jobs. Once the mass deportations stop, guess what happens? Hang on, wait for it. Let me think this through. Oh, that's right. The foreigners start getting jobs again. We have sold the country out to forwards, the Chinese Communist Party, whether it's the Gulf Emirates, whether it's wealthy individuals, it's got to stop. America first means American citizens first. You get a special deal. Of course you have obligations. Your obligations to serve in the military right now voluntarily, your obligations to pay your taxes and to comport yourself within the rule of law. But the little platoons of Burke, what makes this country go? The civic society underneath it, the civic society underneath it is voluntary, voluntary association. That's our customs, our culture and traditions. That is shattering. That is shattering. Do we have the New York City? Can I play this? Is there any sound to it? Do you see what happened yesterday? This because this is, you know, this is Gay Pride month. Got to be proud. Not proud of that. No, sorry, sorry. Not sorry. This is nuclear family month. And you see what's happening with the Red Green Alliance. Mandami is as bad as they get. I keep telling you that. I told you that beforehand. Early on, we were the first guys to identify. This is going to be a problem. He's going to beat Cuomo and it's just fantastic. Big story today, big article today, that the money, the wealthy in New York City are not going to oppose it. Not going to oppose it. I don't know. Just like the French Revolution, they always put their head in the sand. That's why these aristocracies and these monarchies, the Queen, all that crap, I don't believe in any of it. I believe the best thing we could do is overthrow it. And I'm a traditionalist, but I'm a traditionalist that's based upon, predicated upon the working people. Working people, the salt of the earth. If you go back and look throughout history, the people just, you know, want to raise their families, want to make their communities better, want to do what's right, and they want to be left alone. They're called kulaks. Particularly the, the leading peasants, the ones that are most organized and squared away. That's what the Bolsheviks came for. That's what the Chinese Communist Party come for. They come from the lead peasants. They come for the war and posse. The people that got their acts together are not looking for a handout, are not looking for government help. What they want is the government to go away. They want to raise their families, they want to do their work. They want to have faith in their God, pray to their God, be God centric, religious centric. The simple, humble people. Now when you rile them up, you get the marines of Peleliu. Read, read, read. The. With the old breed, you want to get a shocker. You want to get a shocker. When people waving the American flag and got the pennants and the bunning and all that, you want to see what it was like and you want to see what it's like. The, the writer, it's his story, it's his memoirs. He wrote it later when he was an old man and looking back over it and he said, hey, one of the most brutal killing machines in the world is an 18 year old American that's been trained. And look at Peleliu. My point, they didn't go looking for that fight. They didn't want to go to the South Pacific, right? And take the Japanese, a, a militaristic cult, a Bushida. They didn't want to take that on. They want to stay in Alabama and be farmers. They want to stay in Alabama and be shopkeepers. They want to stay in Alabama and get married to an Alabama girl and have an Alabama family. Okay? That's what they wanted to do, but they did. That's not what God's plan had to do, but they answered the call. That's the backbone of the nation. It's the backbone of the nation. And when we lose sight of that, you're going to lose it all. Very simple. Not about the elites and not about Harvard and all these places. Yes, they got to be reformed, have to reform. But once you lose the working class and the middle class in this country and once they say, hey, playing by the rules doesn't make sense because all I'm getting is crushed. This is one of my big problems with the oligarchs. Oligarchs don't care about this republic, they forget caring about maga. They detest maga. They're all progressive Democrats. I don't care how many times they go to the White House and the West Wing and slobber all over the President. I don't care. They're all progressive, left wing, virtual Marxist, not communists because they want all the money, but they're Marxist because they're all atheist, transhumanist. And we're going to get some facts here in a moment. On, on John Bolton pleaded guilty, of course. He's all over everywhere hating on Trump all the time. E.J. and Tony joins us. E.J. i got a capital markets question we get to in a moment about this, the, the issue about the central banks buying gold and the situation with the debt which know this high what, what we have here is a business model and this is the road to predition. Let me just be blunt. The highly leveraged bet we have on artificial intelligence is very, very, very scary. Now they put out a 300 page bill from a congressman in California. We're all over that, breaking that down and, and Joe Allen will join us in the afternoon session with others. E.J. and E.J. i do want to say like Pulte and like Blanche, the President because seeing your clips and knowing you and your years of saying what the problem was with these labor statistics, you know, when you were nominated, you saw the power and glory of the United States Senate. They want to run and hide. They don't want to support Trump nominees. They do not. They do not. They will run and hide. And this is why th mark this down all the donors, you might as well take your money out in big barrels, right? And take it in a front yard like leaves and just burn it just like you did in Texas where you worked. You basically worked for Talarico's campaign. You work for Talarico's campaign, all you big wealthy donors, all the Bush apparatus and the Karl Rose of the world in La Civita, all of it. You're going to lose the Senate. The Senate is lost. You're down 8 in Maine, you're down 8 in North Carolina. You're down 8 in Ohio last time I looked. I think they're kind of MAGA country. You're down there. Why people are not going to go door to door and engage in the way modern politics works because the Working Family Party and DSA has copied it and that's why they're on a roll and have one on one canvassing and one on one engagement. That takes volunteers, volunteers who believe in something unlike people in the Senate. They're not supporting thune. This is people are not about to support you. This is about you. You either have to step down or you have to be turfed out. We can go either way. If you're not going to step down, let's go turf him out. His comments today on Todd Blanche is just reinforcing. Well, you know, the president likes him and I don't know man, it's really kind of what happens. No, not good enough. You're supposed to say he's the president's nominee. We're going to get this done at a committee. I'm going to get it to the floor as quickly as possible. It's going to get passed. He's going to be the Attorney General of the United States, full stop. And give a salute at the end of it. And how about a cheery II E.J. and Tony, let's start with numbers of the foreigners. We're selling the country out to foreigners, full stop. Talk to me about these job numbers that you, you and I have discussed. At least these employment numbers, this tweet I sent you, I guess from 2019, how many jobs have been created and how many have gone to foreigners?

[B]

Well, Steve, the very short answer there is 4 out of 5 jobs created since the pandemic have gone to foreign born workers. And if we go back to the first Trump administration, you had a very robust labor market. I think everybody remembers that it was very easy for folks to get jobs and that was true for both native born Americans and also foreign born workers. In other words, the economy was growing so quickly and there was so much labor demand that again, not only were there ample jobs available for those native born Americans, but there was even enough labor demand to absorb all of the foreign born workers that were coming in at the time. But then what happens after Covid? Well, you have the Biden administration that throws open the border at the same time that they are allowing this huge influx of, of illegal aliens to come into the country. They're expanding welfare programs, they're reducing things like work requirements, any of the barriers to get on to welfare. And so what happens? Well, a lot of native born Americans simply leave the labor market and choose to get on the dole instead. And they're effectively replaced by these foreign born workers, obviously some of whom are going to be illegal because the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't distinguish illustration in any of their numbers between legal and illegal folks. So very quickly, Steve, you see the growth of, of, of migrants, of foreign born workers in the American labor market actually not only return to the pre pandemic level, but it even returns to the pre pandemic trend in 2022. In other words, the huge dip that you get from COVID they make up for all of that and then get right back on the previous trajectory. Meanwhile, the American side of the labor market, native born Americans have never returned to that pre pandemic trend. And again, the vast majority of those of that job growth since COVID has gone to those foreign born workers, easily four out of five jobs. And you mentioned this earlier, I'm very, very glad you did because you're absolutely right. At one point early in this second Trump administration, we were making very, very good progress in recent reversing that. In other words, you saw Americans native born American job growth far outpacing that of foreign born workers. However, and the timing here is very interesting because it seems to coincide with when they ended the mass deportations. That progress has now basically reversed and we are back to the previous status quo of foreign born workers getting the vast majority of jobs here. In fact, if you look at the latest year over year numbers, in other words, the annual change, native born Americans have once again fallen behind. There are slightly fewer of them employed right now than a year ago.

[A]

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[B]

Well Steve, that's such a great point. This is why we, we keep really pounding the table on things like H1BS, why that program is so desperately in, in need of reform. You have companies that will lay off all of their American workforce and then say, well, we just don't have enough workers. We need this program or that program, whatever the case may be. That is not supposed to be how those programs are to be used. They're, they're supposed to be used when, for example, you literally don't have Americans with a particular skill set. And instead companies are essentially just abusing these programs in order to get, to get lower skilled or excuse me, lower, lower wage labor. And so you can find plenty of instances where literally the entirety of a company's workforce in a particular program. In other words, 100% doesn't have to be foreign labor, but these companies are are again abusing those programs in order to try to get the exact same work done but for a lower wage. And look, the labor market is a market, right? It's right there in the name. It's supposed to be competitive and we do want a competitive labor market. So it's not as if, you know, it's not as if we're trying to abandon free market principles here. But at the same time, it is the American labor market and this is America, this is our country. It is supposed to be here for Americans. And just as we have all kinds of regulations in place for other markets, there's no reason why you shouldn't have that in place for the labor market as well. Again, it's not A matter of you should have no immigration because clearly there have been valuable contributions from immigrants over our nation's history. That's not the issue. But the issue here is that this unfair fettered immigration and these endless waves have caused all kinds of problems, including cutting out the first rung on the ladder of success for countless Americans. When you can't get your first job because you are always going to be out competed by again these endless waves of illegal aliens, then what happens to a lot of Americans? Then they end up on welfare and they do it essentially forever because you cut out again that first run on the ladder of success.

[A]

One third of young American men, Hispanic, black, white, one third of them collectively, I think are not in the job market and not looking the job market. Why there's the pincer move of flooding by corporate America of illegal, either legal aliens or illegal, all the legal being scams to take their jobs, coupled with the pincer move of artificial intelligence, you're radicalizing a generation of young men under 30, 35 years old. People go, why? Why do these people believe all this crazy stuff? First of all, I'm not so sure how much of it's crazy. I think they're actually looking. They see what they see because they see their parents have played by the rules, they've gone to school, they play by the rules, and guess what? The game is rigged. You give an American a level playing field, they're going to kick ass and take names. You got to give them a level playing field. It's not even close to being level. Say, oh, we want to do, you know all this rights? And we got to get level playing fields. It's not level. It's rigged against American citizens. Let's, how about this concept? Let's try this. You get a special, you're an American citizen, You're not a supplicant. You're not sitting there going, well, why are these people coming in here? Why are they doing it? It's just, it's just, we just changed the mindset. If you're American citizen, you come first. By definition of being a citizen, you get a preferred deal. You got a lot of obligations. Got to serve in the military if you need it, got to pay your taxes, other things. Got to live under these, the regulatory state, till we change it. Got to do all this got obligations. How about a little something for the effort? Let's make American citizens a premium citizenship, a premium. Then you're going to have people say, hey, I want the illegal aliens out of here. I want to have Mass deportations. Because I'm going to give you a number here in a fact, when the number of foreign born workers dropped and American workers increased, it was during a time period of mass deportations, was it not E.J. antony? In the first, in the days of Thunder of the Trump first year of the Trump administration's second term, sir.

[B]

Steve, that's exactly right. And sure enough, it certainly seems again, when we look at the data and we try to interpret it as best we can and align with, with as many of those data points as we can, the narrative that that is coming from, that seems very clear. And it's this. With the end of mass deportations, you ended all of the effects of that, which includes that Americans, native born Americans were getting more jobs than foreign born workers. And now that situation again has basically flipped so that once again more of the jobs are going to foreign born workers and fewer are going to native born Americans. And look, Steve, I'm so glad you raised up the AI issue as well, because that is another big part of this. And unfortunately, so many of those native born Americans who are now not getting jobs were basically lied to. They were lied to growing up as kids. They were lied to when they were told you need to go to college and you need to get one of these frankly useless degrees that end in the word studies. Instead of learning a trade, learning to do something with their hands, whether it's being an electrician, a, a plumber, a welder, a carpenter, a mechanic, a machinist, you name it, all of those skills which are severely lacking today, all of those jobs which are in very high demand and which are seeing faster wage growth, kids were told don't do that, instead go for this, this low level white route. You want to call it that. And now all those jobs are going away.

[A]

Yes, yes. All the study. I got it, I got it. You're 100% correct. But, but it's worse. The kids that were the dedicated ones, at least when I was coming up, and I think it still exists today, the ones that were taking the advanced math classes and the ones that were taking all the tough engineering classes and the ones who were always top of their school and got the best sats, and the ones that went to these tough schools and took tough programs, they took, you know, at the school I went to, everybody wanted to be an engineer and everybody started wanting to be an engineer because it had five hour calculus. Every morning at 8 o' clock you had to walk across the drill field and have five hour calculus and they basically devoured what you learned in, in high school or prep school in about a week, okay. And it was a grind. And they wanted to flunk out 2/3 of the people to kind of get rid of the ribbon clerks. And let's get down to people really want to be engineers. Those people and these young people today, they have worked their ass off since fourth and fifth grade when the Steve Bannons of the world were goofing off, right? And I've got an academic record that can show that until I had the great awakening, okay. Comes at different times in life. Those kids were lied to, the stems. I think there's, correct me if I'm wrong, aren't there 12 million either stem workers or people with degrees in STEM that are now sitting there and they're telling you because AI and they come on TV all the time, oh, that's not true. They're gonna have great careers. That's a bald faced lie. If you believe anything an oligarch tells you about this, you're a fool. You're a fool and they playing you for fools. Isn't the bigger problem we got besides people going get the ridiculous degrees or a waste of time with these huge loans now they're all bitching and moaning. They're, they're all broken in debt. The ones that didn't go to a trade school and become something, you know, work with your hands is going to have great pay going forward. The kids, they bald face lied to the ones that went through and got the hard degrees and the tough degrees and now they're sitting there going, hey, I can't get a job after being STEM and being first or second in my class all the way since the third grade. EJ and Tony Well, Steve, what we're

[B]

seeing in a field like computer science for example, is that if you're graduating and you don't have a skill set that includes AI, in other words, if you're not proficient in using it, which is difficult because it's such a fast moving technology, it's hard to stay proficient every single day in it. But if you don't have that skill set, then you're basically going to, going to be excluded from a lot of those, the vast majority really of those job opportunities that is now a mandatory skill set in a lot of ways that so many of these jobs. Steve, it used to be things like your college degree in computer science.

[A]

The FT's got the beauty, got the beautiful. This is the problem, the human and being proficient in AI, you're just treading water for A very short period of time. You got AI now that's going to perfect itself. That's the big article in the FTA days. We've told you. That's cutting out the Homo sapien. Right? The homo sapiens. So even if you do that and you get that, that's just a rear guard action to see if you can cross up and get a job at the beginning. Anyway, ej, you're amazing. We didn't have time to talk about capital markets, but I'm gonna get you back to do that. Where do people go to get all your analysis, particularly in social media? You come in a little hot with charts and graphs and you're not shy about, you know, calling balls and strikes. So where do folks go?

[B]

Best place is going to be on X and the handle there is at real. E.J. antony.

[A]

E.J. we're going to put out labor numbers tomorrow. So I'll check in with you and hopefully maybe get you back up and break all this down. How does that sound?

[B]

Sounds good. Thank you for having me, Steve.

[A]

Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Okay, we're going to do the debt tomorrow. We got a problem. The bet was we got to grow greater than the debt. They're over right now. We've been doing the live streaming on the markup of the ndaa. We have to have a reality check. We got to rebuild the United States Navy. And how do we know that? Well, we can see the blockade and what our battle groups and what our combatants are doing over there. And you can't do that forever. If you're going to have a hemispheric defense and you're going to have this geostrategic realignment, it's incumbent upon a robust, vigorous United States Navy. You got to tuck that into the bill. And then we got to figure out we just can't afford $1.5 trillion. Can't afford it unless we get big old social media cuts or social program cuts. And I don't feel that's coming to Something tells me a little birdie tells me short Commercial break. Back in the Worm in a moment. 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It's the 20% up to a third that you have to refinance every year. That's the problem. Germany. I went through the budget on Germany last night and in 2030, which is going to be upon us very quickly, just their debt that they're increasing right now because their economy's imploding. Why is their economy imploding? Ridiculous radical woke policies that have gutted the industrial strength of Germany and also selling out to the Chinese Communist Party that has eaten away at their middle market cost companies. Germany's about to implode. It's going to implode financially. I'm going to walk you all through it, maybe tomorrow, maybe over the weekend. But you've got to see this as a test case of what happens to an industrial power that essentially lets these radical elites impose this radical agenda onto a country. And then a few years later, the manifestation of those policies start to hit in the basic economy and that leads to financial problems. Problems particularly when you're, you're so leveraged. Once again, I've said I've been 100% right on this now years is. It's coming, it's coming. We have 300tr, $300 trillion of debt at all levels globally and we're about to have the world's largest margin call. And here in the United States we have literally an insane bet, an insane bet, highly leveraged bet, both governmental and private corporations on productivity increases from AI. And by definition those productivity increases, when you look at it would have to come with mass layoffs, full stop. If anybody wants to contest that model, please come. We're always interested in having a chat and we're going to get in the five o' clock show. We're going to get into this new artificial intelligence, build this out, break it all down for you. Michael Kunstler joins us, folks. We talk about consent to the govern. If you want to get freedom in your life, you've got to reach out for those tools or associations that give you more control of your own life. What Michael and his team have created is something you can't get off big, Big Pharma until you find a way to get out of the distribution system of Big Pharma that controls a big part of your health and wellness. And we saw, look, the revolt, nobody's talking about what happened in Iowa the other day, that was very big. We're gonna get Tony Lyons and the guys on Make America Healthy again on here because that upset, and it was an upset in the primary is a shot across the bow that Maha has arrived. You look at Louisiana and you look at Iowa. What is that? People understand that to confront the forces of the concentration of power, they have to figure out ways either at the ballot box or in their own lives to try to get some semblance of control over your own life. Michael Kunstler has created a company that gives you the opportunity to do that. Michael Kunstler, the floor is yours. What is All Family Pharmacy? Why, why did you create it? What is it? What is this? What is, what is its task and purpose? Sir?

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Yes. All Family Pharmacy was created in 2019, 2020. We're a family owned pharmacy. You know, we've been doing this now for seven years. Close to. We saw that medical freedom was taken away from the American people back during COVID Whether it was forced vaccinations, removing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine from the market or even just removing just regular antibiotics and inhalers from people, individuals who were suffering from COVID or flu or whatever virus it was. They took the freedom from those people, and they did not allow them to dispense medication. They did not allow them to prescribe the medication. So it hurt the American people. All Family Pharmacy was then, you know, put into full force to put back medical freedom in the hands of those American people. We brought in physicians who were interested in prescribing medications for people who wanted it for that emergency case, for that. That case where you wake up one day with the flu, you wake up one day with COVID or it's just a sinus infection, or you're just interested in protecting your family for the long term. And we created this company to give Americans to give those people that ability to choose medical freedom because it's. It should not be taken away from some small government in Washington or New Mexico or California. Florida was a free state. We allowed it. Ron Desantis, all of them. They allowed us to dispense ivermectin to our people. Hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and. And we shipped it all over the United States. They hated us for that. But they couldn't touch us here in Florida because we're a free state.

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Talk to me about how people use the service today. How. How do they sign up? How do they talk to a physician? How do they get a prescription if they can't get a prescription or something? What's your alternative? You. You kind of are. Full service, but I want to make sure people know how they get into the system and then how it works.

[C]

Yeah. So you can go online, place an order for a prescription that you're looking for. Maybe it's a refill or a maintenance drug you're currently on. Maybe you're looking for some Ivermectin, something off label. Some people are using it for cancer or Covid or flu. Any type of drug that you're interested in looking into, we'll send a prescription request to a physician that's licensed in your state. That physician has to do his due diligence to make sure the medication is safe and effective. If, for whatever reason, they deny it, they'll send us back the request and we'll go over it with you on why they denied it, or the prescribing physician will go over with you why they denied it. And maybe they choose an alternative that they feel is better fit for you and your body. So it's a Great opportunity to just go online and place an order. You can also call us. We have a room full of customer service representatives who take calls all day long, 9am to 5pm Eastern standard. Some of them work at home even for the late hours, and they're constantly taking orders for individuals who need assistance, who have questions, who want to talk to somebody with a little bit more medical expertise than themselves. Some people already know what they want and they can go online and place it. Some people have a few questions. They want to make sure something's not going to hurt them. So we have pharmacists on staff, we have medical providers, and we have customer service technicians for that.

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One more time, how do people go there? You've got a special on today. Who do they talk to Once they go, Give the phone number and the website. Make sure you let people know you're part of the war and posse. But where they go. One more time, Michael.

[C]

AllFamilyPharmacy.com backslash Bannon using the code Bannon10. You could also call the. The phone number is 561-717-6794. That's. That's 561-717-6798. You can call us and we'll walk you through the whole ordering process.

[A]

Michael, I can say this from the audience members that have tried all Family Pharmacy, thank you for doing this. Really bold move. It's paid off huge dividends and people love it. So I just want to make sure people get access to go talk to you and your team and see if they just have them try it. And I'm sure they'll fall in love with it, too. So thank you so much for all the work you've been doing in this. Appreciate you.

[C]

Thank you. Thanks for letting us get the word out. We appreciate that.

[A]

Thank you, brother. Medical freedom, you can talk about it. This is reality. You want to get your medical freedom, you got to start putting together your team, your personal team to get your medical freedom. Let's say I tell you what I want to have. Do we. Can we play some more of the pulte stuff? Do we have. Let's, let's play some of the pulte stuff. So I'm a hammer. Guess what? We're going to hammer the Senate some more before we leave. Let's go and play it.

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Democrats are preparing for Donald Trump to try to undermine the midterm elections this November. Today, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer convened an election Protection task force that includes former Attorney General Eric Holder and election lawyers Mark Elias, Sky Perryman and Norm Eisen to analyze possible scenarios. This effort comes after the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a rigged congressional map that erases a majority black and white in Democratic.

[E]

It was, you know, I didn't think that the Trump administration could still surprise me, but picking someone with no national security experience I don't even believe has a clearance. I asked right bessant today who's quasi his boss, and he said he didn't know. It's the guy that Besson said he was going to punch in his face. And I think his, his claim, the one thing you're, your story left out, that is confidential information, mortgage information. It's private. So this guy has found a way to weaponize housing information and you're going to give him the keys to all of our 18 intelligence agencies. You know, and this comes at a time when we've got this debate over 702, which is a critically important tool. But, you know, and I'm, I'm less worried about him there, but I'm just worried about, you know, put, put a

[A]

pin in that right there. That's fisa. It's an important tool for Warner because he's part of the Deep State. Doesn't mean anything to us. We want it to go away. It's important to Marco Rubio, it's important to Warner. It's important. All the Deep State guys, they all want it to spy on American citizens. Oh, no, it's just foreigners overseas. But no, there's no, there's no safeguards for American citizens. Let it expire. Who cares? This is what they're holding up. This is how they try to confuse you with the fog of war. And yes, we're in a war. We're in a war. We're in a war at the Deep State. If you don't take it down and you don't dismantle it and you don't break it. Now, now, now, all it's going to do is put Trump in, in prison after his term is over. Other people associated with him in prison, they're going to have other assassinations. Yes, yes. What do you think that will do for power? Do you think they're, you don't think they play smash mouth? What do you think they would do to keep power? Because he understands they get exposed. John Bolton is just one example, and that's just one charge. Now they're going to get Bolton to roll on other people. I'm sure that's part of the deal. He's going to become a government witness. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Of course John Warner's advocating, oh, we know this couldn't come at a worse time because we got to screw you. Let it expire. We don't give a damn. And anybody telling the president you have to have it is lying. All that's been used is against the MAGA base. All that's been used against American Patriots. Why should we give them an extension? Everybody who's working on the extension, on the right, quote, unquote. Conservatives are just controlled opposition, Republicans and everybody running up to President Trump. We have to have. We don't have to have it. Let it expire. Call their fricking bluff. Call McConnell's bluff. Call Mark Warner. Mark Warner. Advocating it in and of itself should be enough to say no. The answer is no. This is what they're holding up. Think about this, how crazy this is. PTI is selected because he's a man of action, and they're saying, oh, he doesn't have any qualification. What are their qualifications? What's Mark Warner? He sat in a couple of committees. What is Tim Kaine? What are their qualifications? They don't have qualifications. I would sit there and get the briefs and said, this stuff's classified, right? You kidding me? It's a joke. It's a joke. This is why they're always wrong. How could you be wrong on 9 11? How could you be wrong on the Iraq War? How could you be wrong in Afghanistan? How could you be wrong in Iran and Ukraine? Oh, well, you could have known and you were wrong on purpose, right? There's that possibility. No, Mark Warner, it's not critically important. We don't want it. Hey, if Pulte is naming Pulte enough to get that to go away, then, hey, he's already served his country. He should be in the hall of fame of patriots just for that. Call their bluff. Call their bluff. When Mark Warner wants it so desperately. Oh, because Mark Warner is such a patriot. Mark Warner was one of the biggest movers and shakers in President Trump's first term on the Russia hoax, on Ukraine. He knows all of it. He knows everything. He knew it was a joke. The laptop from hell. Did he get in back of that, get the bomb? No. His record is anti patriotism. If Mark Warner wants it, that by definition, we don't give it. What's the problem? Repeat after me, kids. What's the problem? Thune's the problem. Next in the war room. Fellow patriots, the Federal Reserve has betrayed America for over a century. Printing fiat, inflating away your savings, serving globalist masters. But President Trump is ending it. President Trump is wielding a 112-year-old law to reclaim control from the rogue Federal Reserve. He's replacing Jerome Powell. Slashing rates, igniting America's re industrialization. Now this is not theory. Government backed industry plus low rates unleashes super cycles. History does repeat. Gold's already exploding. Miners are up over 400% in the last year. What Rickards is calling Trump's gift is wealth for American patriots, not global handouts. Now it's America's turn. Jim Rickards, former CIA and Pentagon veteran says act now. Go to insider2026.com that is insider2026.com to get Jim Rickards Strategic intelligence newsletter today. Strategic intelligence based upon predictive analytics. It's what chairman and CEO throughout the world read and you should too. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Tasia Gill joins us. Going to have Taj to give us an assessment of the board. But president said to the Wall Street Journal, I think last night and I ain't going to Connecticut again, they're going to figure this out. So Taj, let's spend our time telling me about the greatest coffee ever made. Why did you make it? Why is it the greatest? How many five star reviews we have so far?

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Over 18,000. It's closing in on 19,000 soon. Hopefully they're all real reviews. You can go to War Warpath Coffee and click on the reviews tab and read them. They're all real. We don't pay people. We just sent out an email and say to read the reviews and, or write a review. And people absolutely love this coffee. We roast it on a perforated drum. We do not burn the beans at all whatsoever. And by doing that, we have very low acid and so it's never bitter and never acidic and it is so smooth. You can drink our coffee straight black. So you know, you don't need milk,

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you don't need strawberries. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Not that you can drink it straight black. Your whole concept when we started working with you, particularly the French roast, was that coffee is made to be consumed with no, no covering. It's supposed to. It's made to be consumed black. If you want to fall in love with coffee and really enjoy it and particularly its taste and its flavor and the extra shot, the hit you get with the caffeine, drink it black hot and black person drink it cold now too. But, but your whole purpose was to make it that we can actually. People have a chance to. To drink coffee the way it was made to be consumed.

[C]

Correct?

[F]

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I was going after. I've told you this before, I was going after a coffee I drank in the Middle east, in Kuwait, in Ramadan, in, like, 2008. And it was so smooth. There was. It was zero bitterness, zero acidity. And it was. I was like, wow, I've never. I never had coffee like that in the U.S. because in the U.S. you know, they. They serve it with milk and with sugar so you can hide the taste of the burnt coffee. And I would say 90% of the roasters, they burn their coffee, and that's just the standard. And they serve it with milk, they serve it with sugar. You know, you go to the coffee shops, they put all kinds of creams and crap in there, but if you roast it correctly, you can drink it straight black. And then you got to use premium beans that are fresh. So we do. We check all the boxes. We use premium beans. We use fresh beans. We roast them on a perforated drum. We don't burn them. And that's why our coffee tastes the way it does. And that's why you can drink it straight black.

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Where do they go? Right now, I want people to go. I want people to go check it out. I particularly want them to read the reviews. Read some reviews first, then go immerse yourself in the information he puts out about the coffee. Then order. And what special deal do you have for the war room

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promo code. War room. 20% off today. So the website is Warpath coffee and use promo code. War room. Warpath coffee. Use promo code.

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War room.

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Scrolling right now.

[A]

Thank you. Thank you for doing this and hammering it out every day. As soon as we know more about the war, we're going to get you back on Taj Gil. We'll let you go back to work making and roasting the best coffee in the world. Warpath coffee. Go check it out. Read the reviews, order and drink it black. And you tell me, Lindell, I can't. Are you actually running for governor? The min. Minnesota Star and Tribune. Boy, what a piece of work that paper is. It's unbelievable, man, that that is maybe the worst paper in the country, given everything that's happened in Minneapolis. Are you actually running for governor? I can't find that in the pages of. Of the Minnesota Star Tribune.

[G]

You're right, Steve. You wouldn't know it. And they learned a long time ago, everybody, not just the starting Tribune, but our local media here in Minnesota remember For five years, I used the media, the fake news to attack me every day so I could get the word out about our election platforms and to get to paper ballots, hand count it. And what the Minnesota meeting, especially the starting Tribune learned. If you wanna silence Mike Lindell, you don't even attack him. You don't even talk them. And that's what they're doing. This is like they just continue to do this. So I'm actually this afternoon, Steve, we're launching our, the biggest marketing plan I believe ever put forth for a governor ever. And we're going to be putting this out there to get around the media, in spite of the media, to get the word out. And I have 10 million people with social media and emails. We have this. We have. We're going to be going around the state doing my own events with tens of thousands of signs. Believe me, every single person in Minnesota is going to know that not only am I running, that we're going to win. And that's. You can, you guys can find this out now@mike Lindellgov.com and you see that we just announced my lieutenant governor selection, which is Phil Parrish, most amazing selection. He was running for governor. You wouldn't know it if you're reading the Star and Tribune. They're. Steve, they're kind of on a national level. I would compare them to Fox News where Fox News doesn't report anything that's worth anything. I mean, you want to talk about your elections? Don't. Don't go Fox. I mean, I used to have shirts.

[A]

Means don't go Fox on me. Hang on. And this Lindell. Lindell spent tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars on Fox as an advertiser. Hundreds of millions of dollars. Anyway, talking about that, the war room posse loves you. They fully got your back on running for governor. However, they're deal oriented. What do you got for us today? Talk to us about the deal. Why is it special and why should people pile into this?

[G]

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Promo code war room. We'll let you go back to work. We'll see at 5. Mike Lindell. The Charlie Kirk show is next. Hearing real America's voice posos. After that, Steve Gruber then Eric Bowling. We're back here at 5. We're going to break down and go into depth of this massive 300 page bill on artificial intelligence. See them. This year marks a critical moment for our country as the opposition grows more aggressive and more unapologetic. The fight now reaches into the everyday decisions we make. Patriot Mobile has standing has been standing on the front lines fighting for freedom for more than 12 years. They just don't deliver top tier wireless service. They are activists like like me and like you in the war in posse who truly care about this republic and saving our country. Patriot Mobile office prioritized premium access on all three major US networks giving you the same or better coverage than the main carriers themselves. That means fast speeds and dependable nationwide coverage backed by 100% US based customer service. They also offer unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming and more. With a simple seamless activation you can switch in minutes, keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade. And here's the difference. When you switch to Patriot Mobile you'll be part of a powerful stream of giving that directly funds the Christian conservative movement. Take a stand today. Go to patriotmobile.com bannon or call 972-patriot. That's 972-patriot and use promo code Bannon for a free month of service. Don't wait. Do it today. That's patriotmobile. Com bannon. Or call 972-patriot and join the team today.