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IcyPeas

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Thu Feb 5, 2026, 01:49 AM Thursday

Why Bannon is targeting Ireland [View all]

Speaking of Steve Bannon.

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist is planning to open an Irish branch of Bannon’s War Room, his influential Maga daily podcast.

Ireland’s high rates of immigration — more than a fifth of the population are foreign-born — is one trigger; another is what Bannon sees as the country’s woke orthodoxy. “If you look across Europe, Ireland is the ripest country for a Maga revolution,” he says. “All the parties belong to the globalist uniparty, which is pro-Davos — and I include Sinn Féin in that.

Bannon triggered a minor storm in Dublin last month when he told Politico that he was seeking an Irish Trump....

But he was in at the ground floor of Trump 1.0 and has a knack for finding what he calls “low-propensity, low-information voters”. He talks “weekly” to Britain’s Nigel Farage and is an adviser to Germany’s ultranationalist AfD.


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Article from January 16, 2026

https://www.ft.com/content/1c574f10-441b-4983-865e-5fa6529ffe08

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