{"id":258848,"date":"2025-12-30T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258848\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:10:07","slug":"steve-bannon-promises-irish-trump-and-says-he-is-working-to-form-national-party-in-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/258848\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bannon promises \u2018Irish Trump\u2019 and says he is working to form \u2018national party\u2019 in Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Former White House strategist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/steve-bannon\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/steve-bannon\/\">Steve Bannon<\/a> has been helping to form an Irish \u201cnational party\u201d as he works \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d on what he described as \u201cthe Irish situation\u201d, he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> ally, whose anti-EU rhetoric previously included an expressed desire \u201cto drive a stake through the Brussels vampire\u201d, told the Politico news website that there would soon be an \u201cIrish Trump\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Bannon, who hosts the War Room podcast and retains influence in the grassroots of the Maga (Make American Great Again) movement of Trump-supporting populists, is quoted as supporting the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-states\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-states\/\">US<\/a> national security strategy \u2013 and its claim that Europe is headed for \u201ccivilisational erasure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/2025\/12\/05\/us-national-strategy-advocates-cultivating-resistance-in-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/2025\/12\/05\/us-national-strategy-advocates-cultivating-resistance-in-europe\/\">official strategy document calls for \u201ccultivating resistance\u201d<\/a> to Europe\u2019s \u201ccurrent trajectory\u201d and has met with criticism in Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Bannon is cited as saying the strategy was \u201cpleasantly shocking that it was so explicit,\u201d particularly the document\u2019s prioritisation of support for so-called \u201cpatriotic European parties\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In relation to Ireland, Mr Bannon said: \u201cI\u2019m spending a ton of time behind the scenes on the Irish situation to help form an Irish national party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said the Maga movement was being mirrored by groups in Ireland, Britain, France and Italy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThey\u2019re going to have an Irish Maga, and we\u2019re going to have an Irish Trump. That\u2019s all going to come together, no doubt. That country is right on the edge thanks to mass migration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has been helping to form an Irish \u201cnational party\u201d as he works&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,107,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-258848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115811046014391775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}