On Independence Day 2025, Steve Bannon delivered a blistering WarRoom broadcast that fused historical truth, modern rebellion, and scathing criticism of the elite class, naming Elon Musk directly. His message: America wasn’t built by comfortable men guided by reason but by "unreasonable” patriots who risked everything for liberty. During the Friday morning WarRoom broadcast, Bannon aimed what he calls "the imperial ruling elite”—those who manipulate democracy to preserve their power—and warned that unless Americans wake up and fight, we are trading away the very freedoms generations bled for.

"Unreasonable men said, ‘Hey screw you, we’re out, we’re gonna fight. And if we lose, you hang us. Big deal—we’ll spit in your eye before the gallows fall,” Bannon said on Friday.

He then pivoted to Elon Musk—a figure often embraced by conservatives for his pro-free speech stance. Bannon warned the WarRoom audience not to be fooled. Musk, he claimed, is no savior of liberty but a technocrat positioning himself to control the digital public square.

"Elon Musk? You think he’s going to save you?” Bannon said. "He’s a globalist oligarch. He talks freedom while trying to monopolize AI and surveillance. He’s not Jefferson—he’s J.P. Morgan with a Twitter account.”

Bannon’s critique cuts deeper than politics—it’s spiritual and cultural. He says Musk and other elites, including politicians and corporate giants, are part of a new ruling class that seeks to "manage” the American people, not represent them. The WarRoom message is clear: MAGA is the modern revolution, and the fight is no longer just about elections—it’s about who owns the country.

On Friday, Bannon drew a line from 1776 through the Civil War, the Depression, WWII, and the Reagan era—all moments when Americans stood at the edge of ruin and refused to back down. Today, he says, we stand on that edge again.

"You want to know what independence looks like?” he asked. "It’s a hard life. It’s risk. It’s saying NO to kings—whether they wear crowns or run hedge funds and Silicon Valley.”

He accused elites of hijacking the meaning of democracy—weaponizing the word while silencing real dissent. "They don’t want debate. They want control. And they’ll call it ‘democracy’ while stripping your voice,” Bannon warned.

He told the WarRoom audience they are the "new minute men”—the digital age’s citizen soldiers tasked with protecting the Republic. Organize, speak out, and never yield. He emphasized that platforms like GETTR are vital "beachheads” in this information war, and that now is the time for every American to choose: liberty or submission.

Bannon’s message is reframing July 4th not as a historic celebration, but as a living warning—and a demand for action. The populist movement, he says, is the Revolution 2.0, and it’s up to ordinary Americans—not billionaires—to finish what the founders began.

For more on Bannon’s point of view, watch this whole segment:

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