Streaming giant Spotify has ended its censorship of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast after it was blacklisted by the Swedish platform for the last five years.
“The ban is lifted! The Posse can now get Bannon’s WarRoom on Spotify,” the leading political strategist’s podcast posted on X Tuesday. The podcast had been previously been pulled from Spotify, in addition to other major streaming platforms with the exception of Apple Podcasts, back in November 2020.
“Following its temporary suspension and a constructive dialogue with the show’s team, new ‘Bannon’s WarRoom’ episodes are available on Spotify,” a Spotify spokesperson confirmed in a statement to the New York Post.
Despite the aggressive censorship and removal from major platforms like Facebook and YouTube, Bannon managed to massively grow the show’s reach over the last several years. As of this report, Bannon’s War Room reaches 268 million subscribers across all platforms, making it one of the most wide-reaching shows in the conservative media sphere.
While Bannon welcomes the change, he stressed in a statement to the New York Post that he will never alter the show’s style and subject matter despite censorship threats. “I think our content’s the same, probably more hard hitting than ever,” Bannon, 71, told the outlet.
The show was removed just before the 2020 election after Bannon 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.
He added, “You either get with the program or you’re gone – time to stop playing games.”
Bannon told The Post that the comments were metaphorical and were never meant to be taken literally. “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.
“I can give a punch and I can take a punch — the MAGA movement prides itself in being resilient,” Bannon said of the show’s growth in spite of efforts to silence him.
The show has become known as one of the most comprehensive, packed offerings in the conservative media sphere, with four hours of programming going live six days a week. “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…”
Bannon credits the show’s growth with he and his team’s ability to listen to its audience and make adjustments. “Our audience is into the receipts [the evidence and data], it’s a working class and middle class audience,” he said.
Elsewhere in the interview, Bannon managed to predict tech billionaire Elon Musk’s turn on Trump just hours ahead of time. Bannon has been highly critical of Musk over his support for H1-B visas and has called him an “apostate of the left.”
On Tuesday, Musk came out swinging against the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill,” which includes billions of dollars in additional funding for mass deportation operations.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk posted on X Tuesday. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
Bannon told The Post that Musk is liable to turn on Trump at any moment just hours before the post went live. “Although Twitter’s been a sea change with the political right… Elon Musk could flip in a second… that’s where the danger [is],” he said.
