Liz Truss, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson? Inside the One-Time PM's Audition for Make America Great Again

The former UK leader, launched the premiere of her video series with a vow to reveal "malicious actors" working to weaken Western democracies. Truss elaborated she would lay bare how an "global web of progressives function to subvert the democratic process and the will of the people."

"We're going to look at the Maga phenomenon and observe how this can be achieved in Britain," Truss declared. "We'll be talking to the key figures of the Make America Great Again campaign."

Before the show's launch, there was a notably ardent backer. "This is the beginning of a kind of revolution," said the controversial US journalist. The right-leaning media outlet Just the News will publish the Truss's new audio shows.

Establishing Ties in the Maga-Verse

British fellow travellers, featuring a counselor supportive of Reform, played a role in her set up the her new show. The production is competent, if somewhat rudimentary. She has gathered a subscriber base of 10k in her initial seven days and her premiere garnered 67,000 views in that timeframe.

This marks a modest start, but in making common cause with John Solomon, Truss is being entering a well-developed political media sphere producing and amplifying Maga talking points. Its obsessions involve claims of media suppression by the traditional news outlets and a desire to remove a conspiratorial 'deep state' – which she attributes her downfall to for the abrupt termination of her short and troubled leadership.

"Just the News is not famous outside of the pro-Trump media sphere, but it does have credibility there, largely because of John Solomon, who gives commentary on Maga platforms like Steve Bannon's War Room and has even spoken with Donald Trump," commented Professor Alex Hinton, who has analyzed the Make America Great Again phenomenon.

A Controversial Partner

Her effort to import Maga media to the United Kingdom has drawn her nearer to divisive personalities such as John Solomon.

He established the platform following criticism after he was accused of circulating false stories about Joe Biden's anticorruption effort in the Ukraine, as well as disputed reports about one-time diplomat to Ukraine.

Solomon's reporting were repeated within the conservative press, with he serving as a frequent visitor on the prominent Fox News show. Donald Trump endorsed Solomon's reporting.

He wrote the reports about Ukraine in a number of opinion pieces for the publication the Hill, where he had already been moved to a columnist role when staffers raised concerns about his work. These reports were pivotal in Trump's pressure for the officials in Kyiv to probe Hunter Biden and his father in that year. Those demands resulted in impeachment proceedings against the president. The Senate later voted to acquit the commander-in-chief.

Shortly after he exited the newspaper in autumn 2019, the publication announced it was performing a examination of his reporting relating to Ukrainian matters. It determined the journalist had cited questionable informants and said he "did not disclose crucial information about main Ukrainian informants, including the fact that they had been charged or were under investigation."

Entering the Ecosystem

His TV and radio guest spots are a example of the conservative ecosystem Liz Truss is becoming part of. Solomon mentioned his support for the program on a broadcast he helps run on Real America's Voice, a political media platform that is where you find the conservative firebrand Steve Bannon and on which Tucker Carlson also is seen. Truss has already interviewed the political operative on one of her first podcasts.

In linking up with the journalist and his outlet, she has become a minor player in a broader ecosystem of right-wing publications that frequently amplify each other's content.

The journalist's broadcasts have often featured figures such as Mike Benz, a political voice whose disparagement of the US Agency for International Development was referenced by the X owner as reasoning behind closing the foreign aid agency.

An International Strategy

Even though the former PM's unnatural presentation and career difficulties have been mocked at home, some US observers do not dismiss her bid to reinvent herself as a UK offshoot of the pro-Trump media ecosystem.

"You have to take people like Truss as significant, although you may not want to accept their words at face value," said Rob Flaherty, who served in the Obama White House.

"You saw how in 2024 the former president utilized that ecosystem to spread his narrative. Certainly that sphere exports and influences debate overseas. It seems quite apparent to me that the environment in the Britain are comparable to what permitted this parallel press sphere to prosper here."

Professor Alan Finlayson, said the internet-based conservative network was already making its presence felt in the UK.

"Digital media transcends national boundaries," Finlayson remarked. "There's a kind atmosphere within which ideas travel – at times manifesting in radical ways and other times more moderately – but which is networked."

Hinton said the expansion of the online right in the United Kingdom in recent times meant the "chance to have a increasing influence is substantial."

Cross-Atlantic Aspirations

"Liz Truss along with Nigel Farage in the recent past appeared at the CPAC, where I watched as they deployed pro-Trump themes before the {king of Maga|