Steve Bannon issues stern warning to Trump about new billionaire ally who ‘can’t be trusted’

Steve Bannon continued his warpath against some of Donald Trump’s newer allies on Monday, attacking Mark Zuckerberg as untrustworthy and in favor of himself.

Zuckerberg, which is owned by the Meta group Facebook, Instagram and Threads, is in the midst of an abrupt policy change that took users and staff by surprise.

He announced he was ending the fact-checking program, wanted to allow LGBT people to be labeled mentally ill, promoted his most Trump-favorite director and put UFC boss Dana White on the board.

Bannon — who last week blasted “evil” and “racist” Elon Musk — remains unmoved by the president-elect’s embrace of Big Tech, who publicly spoke out against Zuckerberg on his War Room show on Monday.

‘Zuckerberg cannot be trusted at all! He got into the Oval Office. They let him into the Oval Office when I was there, and I freaked out,” Bannon said.

He added, “But he made it to the Oval Office anyway and later used $450 million of his own money to steal the 2020 election. To steal the 2020 election.”

Bannon is referring to the so-called “Zuckerbucks” program, which donated more than $400 million to nonprofits that helped with the administration and infrastructure of the 2020 election.

Analysis shows that Biden-winning counties were three times more likely to receive funding from the organizations than Trump’s, and Democrats reportedly gained a significant boost in key swing states by promoting practices that generally favor their vote counts were, such as post-marketing. when voting.

Bannon told the newspaper on Sunday New York Post that Zuckerberg was “the worst of the worst.”

‘He had the biggest stage and did his utmost to crush the truth. Remember what he did with the laptop and everything related to the pandemic… He got it all wrong,” Bannon said.

“He is immature and lacks the judgment to have so much power and so much control.”

On Monday, Bannon said Zuckerberg and other Big Tech CEOs are now “supplicants” for Trump because he “comes with the American people.”

“But after six months, a year of hard struggle and resistance at administrative and deep levels and at the companies, can Zuckerberg and these guys count on them? The only thing they can count on is looking after their own interests. That’s all.’

Bannon himself was permanently banned from Facebook in November 2020 for suggesting that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded for not being pro-Trump enough to serve in his administration.

It’s clear he harbors hard feelings toward Zuckerberg, who never reversed the ban.

“I don’t care how much he grovels against Donald Trump now. He will turn around and he will turn around hard as soon as it is in his self-interest. “Zuckerberg is putting the republic in a very dangerous situation, saddled the country with nerd culture, nerd rule,” Bannon told the Post.

“The combination of technology and money poses a unique national security threat to the US.”

Bannon’s criticism of the “nerd rule” clearly extends to his comments about Musk, saying he will take down the billionaire before Trump’s Inauguration Day this month.

“I’ll have Elon Musk running out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon said told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera translated into an interview on the conservative site Breitbart.

He continued: ‘[Musk] won’t have a blue pass to the White House, he won’t have full access to the White House, he’ll be like any other person.”

It is not clear whether Bannon still has any appeal or influence in Trump’s mind or in those around him.

“He’s a really bad guy, a really bad guy,” Bannon emphasized. “I’ve made it my personal thing to take this man down.”

“I used to be willing to tolerate it because he put money into it; “I am not willing to tolerate it anymore,” he added.

Musk became an ardent and outspoken supporter of Trump after the first failed assassination attempt on Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in late June this summer.

“He should go back to South Africa,” Bannon said of Musk. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, even commenting on what is happening in the United States?”

“We have been fighting this battle for ten years,” he declared. “We are going to expose the whole corruption of the American system, of how money controls everything, and hopefully inspire you in Italy to wake up,” he told Corriere della Sera.

Trump selected him to co-lead his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a new group he created with the aim of reducing government waste and trimming the budget. The end date is July 4, 2026, meaning Musk and co-chairman Vivek Ramamswamy have just one year to achieve their goal.

Meanwhile, Bannon served as Trump’s chief strategist and senior adviser for just seven months at the start of his first term from January to August 2017.

He remains a hero in the pro-MAGA movement and was recently spotted at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, where Musk reportedly rents a $2,000-a-night cottage where he has been living since the November election has locked up.

Now it appears Bannon is turning his ire on Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, donated $1 million to his inauguration and sat down with him for the second time on Friday.

He walked from his car to his Gulfstream G650 jet at Palm Beach International Airport, wearing a navy blue suit and an appropriate red tie.

His plane was considerably smaller than the modified Boeing 757 ‘Trump Force One’ he was parked next to on the tarmac.

During a five-minute video explaining the new policy, Zuckerberg claimed that his fact-checking had “reached a point where it was just too many mistakes and too much censorship.”

“Fact checkers have simply been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they have created,” he said.

Joel Kaplan, a Trump ally who Zuckerberg promoted to chief global affairs officer after the election, also claimed on Fox News that there was “too much political bias” in Meta’s fact-checking program.

These claims were at odds with independent studies showing that the program helped reduce misinformation.

Fewer people believed untruths than before it was implemented, they found.

Zuckerberg conceded that misinformation would increase, but emphasized that it was more important to allow largely unfettered free speech.

‘The reality is that this is a trade-off. “It means we’re going to find less bad stuff, but we’re also going to reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally delete,” he said.

Another policy change that many found alarming was the removal of protections against abuse for LGBT people.

Meta users will be able to share “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given the political and religious discourse around transgenderism and homosexuality.”

Zuckerberg said this was part of an effort to “get rid of some of the restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.”