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Steve Bannon: “He blamed it on Trump's tariffs, Trump's America first…”

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Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5

Published September 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:02

Mitch McConnell came out, and Mitch McConnell said in this interview that we're in as dangerous a period as the 1930s. Right, the 1930s. And He blamed it on Trump's tariffs, Trump's America first policies, and particularly regarding Ukraine. Nothing could be farther from the truth. America first is what's going to save this country. It's saving it right now that. That flex. (02:02–02:14)

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Asserts Mitch McConnell blamed current dangers on Trump's tariffs and America First policies.

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“There's been 1.8 million Ukrainians, a million Russians, 2.8 million [casualties].”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 05:04-05:08
“He shoveled $350 billion, when you count it all up according to President Trump, into Ukraine.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 05:47-05:56
“England, France and Germany can't sell 30 year bonds.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 06:38-06:43
“Stop the oil in the black market that supplies the Chinese Communist Party with 80% of their energy needs.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 15:15-15:24
“This is the 20 million illegal alien invaders we have just on Biden's watch.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 22:39-22:43
“Mitch McConnell said in this interview that we're in as dangerous a period as the 1930s.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 01:51-02:00
“America first is what's going to save this country.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 02:17-02:21
“We're already in the third world war.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 02:45-02:48
“Mitch McConnell and the neoliberal neocons are what got us here. 30 years of rot.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 02:48-02:55
“That's not Trump's tariffs, that's not America first national security policy.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 03:37-03:43
“They demanded that 18 to 24 year olds finally be able to leave the country and not serve in the military.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 04:16-04:24
“No war on Donald Trump's watch.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 05:39-05:41
“England is heading to a civil war as we speak.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 06:50-06:55
“They have a problem with radical Islam that they have not dealt with.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 07:10-07:15
“There's 1.8 million [Ukrainians dead and wounded].”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 07:46-07:50
“We're going to go broke on the midnight of the 30th. The government has no money.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 08:11-08:16
“There's a $58 billion bill sitting in the Senate that they want to jam through here.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 08:18-08:27
“We saved the Chinese Communist Party twice in 50 years.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 08:57-09:03
“Never enforced any trade deals.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 09:20-09:23
“In 2019, he had a deal. Two years of Lighthizer in Navarre, two years to work at the deal that took care of the original seven sins.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 10:18-10:27
“They spit in our face and tore it up.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 10:40-10:44
“They're not communists, they're state owned capitalist.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 11:42-11:45
“TikTok, which is a Chinese Communist Party PLA instrument.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 13:09-13:16
“Deep seek is, is worlds faster than our AI, than GROK and all this other stuff.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 13:24-13:32
“What has President Trump done? He's the only person in modern history to stand up to it and say we're not going to do it this way.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 13:51-14:02
“He's trying to get our sovereignty back against the Chinese Communist Party.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 14:29-14:31
“All those companies I talked about, the tech companies, the social media companies, all of them are trained here in the United States.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 16:00-16:10
“They want control of the national weapons labs, and they want AI amnesty.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 17:00-17:06
“The greatest threat to Israel right now is... the geopolitics of this and what's happening in Europe.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 18:18-18:49
“We have to do a pivot to Asia and we have to confront.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 19:41-19:46
“We must decouple and hard decouple starting tomorrow morning.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 19:59-20:04
“The existential threat to Israel and the Jewish people is not in Tehran.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 20:27-20:33
“The threat is right in New York City.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 20:42-20:45
“It's time to take the federal government and to take the National Guard, militarize it and send it to these cities.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 22:58-23:05
“When Mandami is running New York City in less than 10 years because this guy is more lethal than Sadiq Khan.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 23:10-23:20
“They're an existential threat to the Lao, Beijing, the folks in China.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 26:56-27:01
“They're a threat to East Asia, they're a threat to all our allies, and they're a threat to the people of the United States.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 27:01-27:08
“What they've done in this country to co-op Wall Street, to co-op the tech oligarchs.”
Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5 | Uploaded September 8, 2025 | 27:07-27:18