Steve Bannon pushes Trump to escalate trade war with 'total embargo' on China

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon urged President Donald Trump to escalate his trade war by placing a "total embargo" on all trade with China.

Bannon's call for a cessation of trade came after China cut off the supply of rare earth exports, and Trump retaliated by banning the sale of technology needed for artificial intelligence.

"There is a methodology to go up the escalatory ladder," Bannon said on his Wednesday War Room broadcast. "And I'm all for it, but if you wanna climb off, you gotta have a discussion."

"And President Xi is not gonna pick the phone up and call you and say, hey, let's get together for a cup of tea," he continued. "It has to come some other way."

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"Maybe it can come some other way, but we're heading down now when they're cutting us off, and people have to understand, I believe we're at a total embargo."

Bannon insisted that the U.S. was "now engaged fully in an economic war with the Chinese Communist Party, which has been brewing for many, many years, and they've been at war with us."

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