‘Can’t Be Trusted, At All!’ Steve Bannon Slams Mark Zuckerberg After Pivot Toward MAGA

Former Trump White House advisor turned MAGA-world podcaster, Steve Bannon, remained unconvinced on Monday that Mark Zuckerberg’s latest moves at Meta mean the CEO has actually bought into any of President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda or the MAGA movement.

Zuckerberg raised eyebrows and grabbed headlines last week when he announced that Meta would do away with its fact-checking and phase in a “more comprehensive community note system” – as Elon Musk’s X has done. Zuckerberg also said Meta would move its “trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US-based content review is going to be based in Texas,” also following Musk’s geographic moves with some of his companies.

Axios described Zuckerberg’s latest moves in stark terms, writing, “They say it’s hard to turn a battleship around, but Mark Zuckerberg just about-faced his globe-spanning, $1.5 trillion-value, 3 billion-user company — transforming Meta from a bastion of Silicon Valley’s socially progressive neoliberalism into a full-on MAGA hive.” Bannon, however, made clear he isn’t buying and told his MAGA followers they shouldn’t either.

“The corporations are all down there right now with their little million dollar checks and they want to come to the you know, they want to come to the inauguration. They want to wear black tie and pal around and go to all the receptions. That’s all fine. That’s part of an American tradition,” Bannon said, adding:

But those corporations, and particularly the tech corporations, there’s some comments I have in the New York Post today with the great Miranda Devine talking about Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg can’t be trusted — at all! He came in the Oval Office. They allowed him in the Oval Office when I was there, and I went absolutely bonkers.

But he still got to the Oval Office and later he put up $450 million of his own money to steal the 2020 election. To steal the 2020 election. These guys are supplicants now because President Trump is coming in with the American people, have his back. But after six months, a year of hard fighting and resistance at the administration and deep level and the corporations is Zuckerberg and these guys can they be counted on? Only thing they can be counted on is look after their own self-interest. That’s it.

Bannon has also fought publicly with Musk in recent weeks. “He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon told an Italian newspaper over the weekend. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”

Musk and Bannon open a civil war within MAGA over high-skilled foreign worker visas, which Bannon wants to see restricted and Musk argues are a key part of his businesses. Bannon has also slammed Musk in the past for his ties to China and suggested he is not loyal to the United States. “I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon vowed in his weekend interview, excerpts of which were published in Breitbart.

Watch the clip above via WarRoom.