Former Rep. Matt Gaetz made an interesting prediction in his latest interview with Tucker Carlson.
During his appearance on the Tucker Carlson Show, Gaetz claimed Steve Bannon will run for president in 2028.
Despite Gaetz making the claim, Steve Bannon has yet to suggest he’s running for president anytime soon.
Breitbart had more details to report on Matt Gaetz’s prediction:
Monday on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) predicted that Steve Bannon would run for president in 2028 on a populist “wealth tax economic agenda.”
ADVERTISEMENTGaetz said, “Just like the and I love Steve Bannon, so I don’t want like my our last discussion to come across as a criticism of Steve but I mean he’s going to run for president on the on just a straight, Elizabeth Warren wealth tax economic agenda.”
Carlson said, “Actually.”
Gaetz said, “Yeah. He’s going to run for president and say, take the money from those people who have way too much of it, the Bill Ackman of the world. And I want to give it to you.”
Carlson said, “I wonder if that has ever — it always seems like those people flee the country. I mean, Miami is filled with people who fled other countries, and they live in splendor. I’m not attacking them, but like, they didn’t give up their money, they just left. And then the middle class, upper middle, upper middle class, especially, just get hammered. And that is the core of your society, right?”
Gaetz said, “It won’t last that way. And, you know, Trump’s elections have been, I think, a reaction to that broader trend we’ve experienced for decades. And, you know what I hope doesn’t happen is that it just becomes a policy race to the bottom to try to, you know, throw insufficient solutions at that. You know, things like, well, we’ll just give him free houses. We’ll just give them free health care.”
Watch Gaetz here:
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BREAKING: Matt Gaetz tells Tucker Carlson that Steve Bannon will run for President of the United States on a “Elizabeth Warren wealth tax economic agenda”
“Take the money from those people who have way too much of it, the Bill Ackman’s of the world, and I wanna give it to you.” pic.twitter.com/IhhS4IGwQD
— VISH BURRA
(@VishBurra) December 23, 2025
The Hill reported Steve Bannon has not promoted a potential presidential run but instead has called for Trump to run a third term:
Steve Bannon has always had the unnerving habit of saying the quiet part out loud. His recent claim that Donald Trump will serve a third term shouldn’t be dismissed as the usual mix of mischief and media melodrama. He knows the American system bends long before it breaks, and that with the right mix of crisis, charisma, and constitutional craft, even the 22nd Amendment can start to look negotiable.
Trump, now well into his second presidency, stands as both symbol and spark — the center of gravity and the charge beneath it. What Bannon envisions is not a monarch but a machine: a populist ecosystem designed to survive its founder. He understands that power, once embedded in enough institutions, doesn’t need a crown — only momentum.
The groundwork is already being laid. MAGA has grown from a campaign chant into a cultural creed. Its people populate school boards, sheriffs’ offices, statehouses, and think tanks. They run podcasts, policy shops and prayer groups. Some wear suits, others trucker hats, but all speak the same language of suspicion — of media, of elites, of the “un-American” within. It’s less a movement now than a mindset, one that doesn’t require Trump to rule so long as his style remains the standard.
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