Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon chided House Speaker Mike Johnson over his GOP fist pump after notching a stopgap funding measure to stave off a government shutdown.
Johnson had praised himself for delivering a chance for conservative wins to come.
"The passage of today's continuing resolution puts House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative policy victories," he said following the effort to keep cash flowing to some levels of government until Jan. 19 and then others until Feb. 2.
The bill managed to pass with plenty of Democrats picking up their paddles to row it home with a 336 to 95 vote.
"This don't feel like a victory today, bro," Bannon, a former Trump White House advisor, said on his "War Room" show.
And he did so while staring straight into the camera as if assuming Johnson was watching. "When 209 Hakeem Jeffries-loving Democrats vote for something, it just doesn't feel like a victory."
"I'm not feeling victorious right now. I kind of got this righteous indignation. But we'll work through it."
Bannon wasn't done.
He started to suggest that it was a foregone conclusion that Former President Donald Trump would be forced to finish the job that Speaker Johnson apparently won't on the "first day he's back in office in 2025. It's a beautiful thing."
His comments come after he accused Johnson of "abject surrender" and blamed the House Speaker for claiming success "without any coherent plan."
His unrestrained frustration toward Johnson comes after Bannon confirmed he was planning on rolling out "Trump Davidians" movement merch.
ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl had said on MSNBC that the firebrand conservative had embraced the "Trump Davidians."
The slogan harks back to the Branch Davidian religious cult led by David Koresh ( a.k.a. Vernon Wayne Howell) that engaged in a standoff with federal agents in 1993 that ended a shootout and their Waco, Texas compound going up in a blaze by a fire set by the followers.
Bannon acknowledged Karl was correct.
"By the way, Grace is working on the merch," he said. "How did they know that? The inside baseball."
