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Steve Bannon on Trump's First 100 Days

01 May 2025

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Steve Inskeep speaks with War Room Podcast Host and Trump ally Steve Bannon about the changes the U.S. President has introduced in his first months in office in 2025 and where he sees things heading.Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter.Today's episode of Up First was edited by Reena Advani and produced by Barry Gordemer.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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0.114 - 11.318 Steve Inskeep

There's going to be a confrontation. I think the convergence, particularly of spending cuts and the simultaneously constitutional crisis that we're hurtling to is going to make this summer a summer like no other.

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13.739 - 28.705 Tim Miller

How do President Trump's first 100 days look to Steve Bannon? He's an early backer of the president who served in his first White House and remains influential. We'll listen for clues to where Trump's movement may be going in a special episode of Up First from NPR News.

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31.533 - 51.198 Tim Miller

Steve Bannon promoted Trump's cause in the 2016 campaign when his Breitbart website pushed out stories about Trump and immigration and the left. In 2020, he supported Trump's bid to overturn his election defeat. We talked with Bannon as the president finished the first hundred days of his second term. Settle in for Up First from NPR News.

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54.411 - 64.837 Tim Miller

Steve Bannon did not go into the second Trump administration the way that he did for the first. His position of influence today is instead a daily webcast that is also a podcast.

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71.01 - 74.252 Steve Inskeep

OK, it's Monday, 28 April, Year of Alert 2025.

74.612 - 80.575 Tim Miller

He puts out hours of programming that people follow when trying to understand a wide swath of Trump supporters.

81.056 - 86.258 Steve Inskeep

Bannon has understood the MAGA voter better than basically anybody on the right.

86.599 - 89.34 Tim Miller

Tim Miller is a former Republican strategist and writer.

89.64 - 96.324 Steve Inskeep

The language that he uses, the policy positions that he takes are kind of a window into where the Republican Party is going.

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