After around five years of being suspended from the platform, Steve Bannon’s WarRoom has returned to Spotify.
A Spotify spokeswoman said to Lydia Moynihan for the New York Post, "Following its temporary suspension and a constructive dialogue with the show’s team, new ‘Bannon’s WarRoom’ episodes are available on Spotify."
In November 2020, Bannon’s show was removed from nearly all platforms, save for Apple Podcasts, after he said, "I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them [then-NIAID chief Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray] at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone – time to stop playing games."
Bannon told the outlet that his comments were meant to be metaphorical, saying, "I made a comment two days before about Thomas More in 'A Man for All Seasons', where they put his head on a pike, and we said it metaphorically about Christopher Wray and Dr. Fauci."
He said that not much has changed since 2020 in the way of tone or style of his show, saying, "I think our content’s the same, probably more hard hitting than ever."
In addition to being able to reach left-leaning Americans through show appearances like the This is Gavin Newsom podcast or Real Time with Bill Maher, Bannon said that he is also focused on reaching those around the globe, something Spotify, which is available in over 180 countries, could help.
“At least an hour we try to give over to just the international populist nationalist sovereignty movement,” Bannon said. “We have a lot of coverage of Hungary, Poland, Romania.”
While happy to be reinstated on the platform, Bannon said he is "adamant" about breaking up giant tech companies that hold the power to remove and reinstate people suddenly.
“The oligarchs go beyond big tech, but I think Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Google all need to be broken up,” he said. “Big tech, I think, is the most dangerous thing in the country. It has potential great upside, but right now it’s oligarchy power and we have to go after them.”
