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Supplicants are defined as a "person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power or authority."
Or, according to Steve Bannon, a former strategist for President Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
They are the leaders of SpaceX and Twitter, Facebook's empire, and Amazon – all billionaires a hundred times over or more.
They have been given seats at today's presidential inauguration for Trump, to his second term in office, and they are now, in Bannon's description, seeking favor from the new president.
"As soon as [Mark] Zuckerberg said, 'I've been invited. I'm going,' the floodgates opened up and they were all there knocking, trying to be supplicants. So I look at this and I think most people in our movement look at this as President Trump broke the oligarchs, he broke them and they surrendered."
It was noted that, for a time, the social media companies banned Trump from being on their sites. He ended up creating the competing Truth Social at that time.
Bannon, who was targeted, and actually went behind bars for a time as part of the Democrats' lawfare against Trump, said the billionaires' appearance at Trump's inauguration is an "official surrender" to Trump.
Bannon was sentenced for declining to give to ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's January 6 committee details that were covered by executive privilege, a standard that the committee refused to allow.
The PostMillennial explained Bannon's comments came during an interview on ABC.
The report explained, "Tech leaders have shown signs of softening controversial policies in the wake of Trump's victory. Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook would eliminate its fact-checking services, adopting a community notes system similar to X. He also appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, where he criticized the Biden administration and admitted that under his leadership, the federal government pressured Facebook to censor certain posts."
Bannon also warned against trusting Zuckerberg too much. He cited the $400 million plus that Zuckerberg handed out to elections officials during the 2020 race who used it mostly for recruiting voters in Democrat districts. Bannon called that criminal.
It was one of two undue influences documented on the 2020 results, the other being the FBI's decision to interfere in the results by describing the Biden family scandals documented in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop computer as Russians disinformation, when in fact it all was true.
"Zuckerberg's, you know, road to Damascus came a little late. It was after the Fifth of November," Bannon explained. "It's very, you know, now wants to be a bro. He Kung Fu fights. He's going to UFC. He's got his hair done differently. He's, he's cut. That doesn't hack it with me. That guy will flip on President Trump and he'll flip on us in the second. When it's convenient for him. He will flip."
