There's going to be a confrontation. I think the convergence, particularly of spending cuts,

and the simultaneously constitutional crisis that we're hurtling to, is going to make this summer

a summer like no other.

How do President Trump's first 100 days look to Steve Bannon? He's an early backer of the president

who served in his first White House and

remains influential. We'll listen for clues to where Trump's movement may be going in a special

episode of Up First from NPR News. Steve Bannon promoted Trump's cause in the 2016 campaign

when his Breitbart website pushed out stories about Trump and immigration

and the left. In 2020, he supported Trump's bid to overturn his election defeat. We talked with

Bannon as the president finished the first hundred days of his second term. Settle in for up

up first from NPR News.

Steve Bannon did not go into the second Trump administration the way that he did for the first.

His position of influence today is instead a daily webcast that is also a podcast.

War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.

Okay, it's Monday, 28 April.

You're over alert, 2025.

He puts out hours of programming that people follow when trying to understand a wide swath of Trump supporters.

Bannon has understood the MAGA voter better than basically anybody on the right.

Tim Miller is a former Republican strategist and writer.

The language that he uses, the policy positions that he takes are kind of a window into where the Republican Party is going.

We visited Bannon at the studio where he broadcasts the basement of a Washington, D.C.

townhouse.

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