From the December 8, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Young people are great. They got energy, etc. It doesn't mean they got the greatest ideas. I think they look at their elders and say, what you've done is horrible because you've turned the country over to Soros, you've turned it over to radical Democrats, you've turned it over to corporatists, you don't have capitalism in this country, and I'm screwed. I can't get a job. I can't form a family. I can't marry a young, a woman because I can't get — I don't have economic prospects and they're sitting there looking at my economic prospects and say, hey, no offense, you're a nice guy, but you're not gonna be able to buy a house until you're 40, which is now the entry age.

So it's incumbent upon us to tell them you're 100% correct and this is the action to correct it, sir.

MARK MITCHELL (GUEST): No, I agree with you, and I've said all that stuff on your show, but I think, and I'm not saying that they're gonna lean into like Elon Musk and, you know, new cryptocurrencies and all that stuff. I'm just saying that they want their Franco, and I kind of think a lot of people thought Donald Trump would be that person. And so these things that we've seen have, you know, drawn blood. 

Donald Trump's down to a negative 12 net approval rating, which puts him on par at about 3 months after COVID in the middle of the George Floyd riots. And so that's not a really good place to be. And again, maybe he can recover, but I don't think that this is the same as the first term. America is very different than it was 10 years ago.

BANNON: Hang on, slow down, slow down, slow down. Don't bury the lead, because Jack Posobiec wrote a book that we published at War Room called Unhumans. One of the central characters in this book is General Franco. Did I just hear you say, Mark Mitchell, that they're looking for their Franco, and they didn't think, they don't think Trump has turned out to be that? What do you mean? Explain to the audience. We got a minute here and I'm going to hold you through the break. What do you mean by that?

Because I know Mediaite and Media Matters are gonna have a total vapor lock right now when Mark Mitchell, the pollster, particularly for Young MAGA, is sitting there saying they're looking for their Franco, sir.

MITCHELL: Well, you know, you poll, and then sometimes you read people's responses, and I got a lot of DMs from disaffected MAGA people who are like, what is going on? This is not what we voted for. And one of them said, I thought Trump was gonna be our Franco.

Now I can't get into Spanish history, but the idea is that you have like an even-handed dictator essentially restore order and return the republic, and we're looking around and Donald Trump, in my opinion, ran very heavily on drain the swamp, reform government, usher in a golden age. Well, that means fixing the systems that have failed us, and this gets back to where you started.

The system is failing everybody, and any communication, and any action that is not single threadedly attacking those two main problems is gonna, unfortunately, I think, tank Donald Trump's numbers, because, you know, he lost his Democrat crossovers, then he lost his Independents, he lost a lot of them with Epstein, but just now in the last two or three weeks he's losing Republicans now.

He had a 53% Republican strong approval, lowest of his term, not where you'd want it to be. And all of a sudden, Republican right direction gave up the 70 handle. It's in the mid-60s now. And so he needs to recover and I think making people like Bessent in charge of these things, like delegating these actions, but it all has to be a unified front.

BANNON: Mark, fantastic. Hang on for one second, we'll get back into this and maybe some of the H-1B visas and the Somalians, all of it. Mark Mitchell is with us for the first hour this morning in the war room.