‘Trump Broke the Oligarchs!’ Steve Bannon Dunks On Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg — Calls Them ‘Supplicants’ Who Have ‘Surrendered’

Steve Bannon is declaring victory over Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos ahead of Monday’s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

In an interview on ABC’s This Week Sunday, host Jon Karl asked the War Room podcast host about his feud with the moguls.

“You’re going to see Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, prime seats,” Karl said. “That doesn’t seem like the forgotten men and women that Trump talked about last time. Are you surprised to see that?”

Bannon made clear he believes the three business titans have bent the knee to Trump.

“I am not,” Bannon replied. “They’re there as supplicants. They’re not there as the oligarchs. Remember what Biden said about the oligarchs, Jonathan, you know better than anybody, because you’ve chronicled this in detail, we had no power. President Trump was out and I mean, when out the political class and the Republican Party and Fox News turned against him. We’re going to make him a non-person.”

“He was banned from their platforms,” Karl added.

“For, I think, 18 months,” Bannon replied. “But as soon as Zuckerberg said. I’ve been invited. I’m going. The floodgates opened up and they were all there knocking, trying to be supplicants. So I look at this and I think most people in our movement look at this as President Trump broke the oligarchs, he broke them and they surrendered.”

Karl went on to ask Bannon whether he believes Zuckerberg’s “conversion.”

“Absolutely not,” Bannon responded. “I think Mark Zuckerberg is a criminal.”

“A criminal?” Karl asked.

“Yes,” Bannon shot back. “For 2020, for the Zuckerbucks. But I want to see that. I want to see that in a, in a systematic adjudication either in the House or I think better with a grand jury and a special prosecutor to go through 2020.

“You want Trump’s Justice Department, Justice Department under Trump, to prosecute Mark Zuckerberg?” Karl asked.

“I didn’t say that,” Bannon replied. “What I want is the House to do it first. But if they’re not prepared to do it, a special counsel’s set up that looks at the 2020 election and looks at it seriously and adjudicates it. If there’s nothing there, there’s nothing there. Zuckerberg’s, you know, road to Damascus came a little late. It was after the 5th of November. It’s very, you know, now wants to be a bro. He Kung Fu fights. He’s going to UFC. He’s got his hair done differently. He’s cut. That doesn’t hack it with me. That guy will flip on President Trump and he’ll flip on us in the second. When it’s convenient for him. He will flip.”

The ABC News host then switched to Elon Musk — whom Bannon called a “truly evil person.”

“It’s a little harsh,” Karl said.

“It was said in context,” Bannon responded — standing behind his remark. He added, “He retweeted something called ‘our workers retards,’ said that we were not up to speed to do what taking these jobs. He said that the MAGA movement was a bunch of racists and that they should be turfed out of the Republican Party. So, and Elon — because he’s tweeting all the stuff online — he may or may not mean that. But to me, there has to be an accounting for that. Now, listen, he’s like I said, he’s done great things. He supported us in 2024. And that was a major reason that President Trump won it.”

From there, Karl quizzed Bannon about whether he would tone down his criticism if Trump asked. Bannon said he would keep any requests from Trump private.

Watch above, via ABC.