Steve Bannon, architect of US president Donald Trump’s America First motion, spoke to Edward Luce, US nationwide editor, on the FTWeekend pageant in Washington DC. The populist nationalist shared his views on all the things from AI and alleging the election of American pope Leo XIV was ‘rigged’ to declaring the US could be unable to proceed financing its deficits with out tax rises for rich Americans and massive cuts to the ‘deep state’. Condemning overseas strongmen, he predicted Trump would serve a 3rd time period with the assistance of constitutional ‘workarounds’. Bannon additionally denied that not sufficient American residents had the talents or need to do the roles of immigrant staff championed by Elon Musk, Trump’s billionaire backer and authorities effectivity tsar who was now ‘gone…[from DC while] I’m nonetheless right here’.
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