Radical Islamic Terrorism: Steve Bannon Warns America is in Denial

Radical Islamic terrorism is once again being avoided by political leaders and the media, and Steve Bannon says that refusal to name the enemy is putting Americans at risk.

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This clip aired on WarRoom’s morning show on December 15, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).

STEVE BANNON (HOST): And one of the things I’m concerned about, I don’t think the Prime Minister of Australia ever said, ever crossed his lips, that it was radical Islamic jihad that did this. That did this. This radical interpretation of Islam. And right there you have it.

And I think that’s what they fired for 20 some minutes before taking them down. We’re going to get into all that.

Also, something to help me out here. I’m not sure the administration has come out and said, they’ve said it’s been an attack. I haven’t heard that these are terrorist attacks, that this is radical Islam, that these are terrorist attacks.

Also, I got a question. Why do we have 2,000 troops in Syria, the National Guard, not Minneapolis today, rounding up those people that are in the face we played? We could have played in here in a cut if we had more time about the arrogance of what’s happening in Minneapolis, with turning, you know, telling ICE officers and law enforcement, you can’t arrest, you can’t arrest, you can’t arrest illegal alien invaders.

I got footage. There’s footage over a weekend, I think, a seminar. It looks like a thousand people there. Very specifically, how to confront, how to confront ISIS.

Now, we had a chance. Stephen Miller has sent us some information. There was a false report that Kristi Noem has said they’re only going to go after bad hombres and there’s no more mass deportations.

We had the travel ban the first week. Remember that Friday. We came in Friday, and on late Thursday night, early Friday morning, we announced the travel ban on I think seven or eight Muslim countries that didn’t have the systems in place to make sure that only people that, quite frankly, needed to be here or wanted to be here and were safe got properly vetted. We shut it down.

There was never a terrorist attack in President Trump’s first term, I don’t think. I don’t think it was a terrorist attack the entire first term. Because President Trump came out, remember the three things he won on is, number one, sealed the border and stopped mass illegal immigration. It wouldn’t even anywhere near what Biden did after us for the invasion.

Number two is confront China and bring back manufacturing jobs the United States or America, and confront the elites in our country, the globalist.

Number three was to stop the importation of radical Islam to the United States, because under Obama it got out of control. You were having attacks all the time. People didn’t feel safe.

Well, that was in Glendale, CA, Glendale, AZ. Radical Islam was out of control, and he thought Obama wasn’t tough enough, because he didn’t want to talk about it.

Right now, we had radical Islam was out of control, and they thought Obama wasn’t tough enough because they never wanted to talk about it. Well, we talked about it in the first week of the administration. We put a ban, and Mattis came in, and remember, President Trump said from the beginning, this is constitutional. Supreme Court, back me up.

Remember the firestorm in that first weekend, the absolute firestorm. President Trump said, this is constitutional, and they’ll back me up.

We took off. And President Trump, again, again, says, I don’t want to do this, but of the military commanders. Because remember, back at that time, you had a physical caliphate of ISIS in Syria, in Iraq, that was actually a more functioning nation than Syria or Iraq, had oil revenue. They’re recruiting thousands of people a month from Europe.

Mattis was put in charge. The reason Mattis was Secretary of Defense, he was going to lead that effort to destroy ISIS. And it did. I think it took six months. Obama said it would be generational. This is the physical caliphate. The physical caliphate.

President Trump was as tough and as focused as any leader in the world. Forget that. All of them added up. Or in world history in putting down a threat to the American people.

Mattis came in and said, with the boys in Iraq or fighting shoulder to show, I said, yo, this is not, they’re fighting for their country. What has that got to do with, you know, it’s about the systems they have in place. We backed off that.

And the issues were, Iraqi boys are fighting shoulder to shoulder with American boys. I think the comment was, well, why are we fighting over there anyway?

We’ve got a very short term focus on ISIS and then out. 2,000 troops. And now the soldiers that were killed from the Iowa National Guard, why is the Iowa National Guard in Syria, whereas in Palmyra? And I might add, when we did the relieve the watch on the 20th of January, that weekend, I made a note at the time. At that time, I think it was the Free Syrian Army or whatever one of these other CIA contract groups. We’re on one side with more than 2,000 troops, and Hezbollah and the Persians are 1,000 yards away. And I go, gosh, isn’t that interesting.

It’s in Palmyra. Two thousand years ago, 2,500 years ago, the Roman legion and the Persians. Palmyra. I don’t know, maybe 1,000 miles away. It hadn’t changed in 2,500 years, folks.

You read, what is it, Xenophon’s The March Up Country, The March Back Home. The mercenary army of Greeks that basically, I think, Xerxes paid them, and then all of a sudden, they abandoned them. Not that you can’t depend on a person’s word, not that you can’t depend on an Iranian’s word. In the middle of it, those brothers were Greeks, and they cut them loose. They had to fight their way home.

One of the great works of Western literature, The March Back Home or The March Up Country. Same place, around the same place, January 20, that weekend, around Palmyra, where these young men died eight years later.

Why is the Iowa National Guard not in Minneapolis, doors, and rolling up some Somalians that should have been thrown out of this country today? Anybody that blocks an officer and ICE, or a police officer fulfilling the role of mass deportations and getting these bums out of the country, ought to be immediately rolled up and sent out too. Roll them up. We’re either at war or we’re not at war.

I want my crack staff. I got to hear today these are radical, these attacks. I don’t know if it’s coordinated or not. Maybe it’s around Hanukkah. Maybe it’s around Advent. But I’ll tell you one thing. They’re coming and they’re coming hard. They’re coming and they’re coming hard.

And you either sit back and be passive and take it, or you can step up and say, okay, is this the way it’s going to be? This is the way it’s going to be?

Maybe it’ll be something different.