Donald Trump's newly named chief strategist and senior counselor, Steve Bannon, laid
out his global nationalist vision in unusually in-depth remarks delivered by Skype to a
conference held inside the Vatican in the summer of 2014.
Well before victories for Brexit and Trump seemed possible, Bannon declared there was
a "global tea party movement" and praised European far-right parties like Great
Britain's UKIP and France's National Front. Bannon also suggested that a racist element
in far-right parties "all gets kind of washed out," that the West was facing a "crisis of
capitalism" after losing its "Judeo-Christian foundation," and he blasted "crony
Source: House Oversight Committee release, November 2025