War Room host Stephen K. Bannon believes that the tech oligarchs who control America’s major technology firms surrendered to President Donald J. Trump at his inauguration, likening their appearance to the signing of surrender by the Japanese in World War II. Speaking with British journalist Steven Edginton, Bannon explains: “It was like [Trump] wanted to re-create the deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo harbor in 1945, with MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz taking the surrender of the imperial high command.”
“These were the bro-ligarchs that essentially came to sign a surrender document,” he said, noting that the bosses of Meta, Amazon, Google, and others had opposed President Trump during his first term.
Bannon contends that Trump wanted the whole world to see Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Apple’s Tim Cook on display and to know he had beaten them. According to Bannon, once Pennsylvania was called for Trump on November 5—securing him the presidency—the tech oligarchs had their “road to Damascus” moment, referencing the story of Saint Paul in the Book of Acts.
“They all realized they really weren’t progressive Democrats that were in partnership to suppress the MAGA movement, they were actually populist-nationalists,” he said. “They had the revelation, and they couldn’t wait to get to Mar-a-Lago.”
Along with attending the inauguration, some of the Big Tech firms have made steps to distance themselves from the past. For instance, Mark Zuckerberg is ending biased “fact-checking” across Meta’s platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram.
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‘The tech bro-ligarchs came to sign a surrender document’
Steve Bannon describes Trump’s inauguration in which the CEOs of Facebook, X, Google and Amazon attended.
‘On November 5 they all realised they weren’t progressive Democrats & they were actually populist nationalists’ pic.twitter.com/gHCjX6Bbyz
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