Stephen K. Bannon, former White House chief strategist for President Trump, is the world's wealthiest Trump advisor who calls him “parasitic illegal immigrants” in an interview published online Tuesday. The feud with Elon Musk has been updated.
Bannon commented in an interview with British news site Unherd last week.
“Mask is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose his extraordinary experiments and play as a god without respecting the history, values or traditions of the country,” Bannon said. He told the interviewer. He appears to be referring to news reports that Musk, born in South Africa and an offensive voice against undocumented immigrants, continued his visa when he built a company in the US. Ta. Musk denied the charges.
Bannon repeatedly criticized Musk, calling him a “truly evil person” before taking office last month, vowing to prevent him from fully accessing the White House. But Musk, who first irritated Trump at Trump's private club Mar-a-Lago during the presidential transition, is for Trump as an internal enforcer of executive orders and efforts. It has become extremely valuable. Proactively reduce spending and reduce the size of the federal workforce.
That led Musk to be a specific target for elected Democratic officials and Trump critics, drawing some of their fire from the president who empowered him.
“It is clear that the president is using him as an armored shell that provides dull force trauma to his administrative state,” Bannon said in an interview. However, he also described Musk's work as “performance,” complaining that Musk's lack of focus on the Pentagon. Musk's private companies have many contracts. (Trump suggests Musk will consider spending Pentagon at some point.)
Despite a dramatic and intense departure from the White House in 2017, Bannon once again became close to Trump in the final year of Trump's first term. Bannon remains a close ally and, more importantly, a popular figure in the Trump movement. His show, Warroom, is closely watched by many Trump allies and the president himself.
Bannon has approved some of the efforts Musk's so-called government efficiency group is taking, but he accused Musk of the innocent movement that took Trump.
Musk has generally avoided dealing with the jabs Bannon has made over the last few months. Two weeks ago he posted on X, a social media website. This has been using many people in private discussions since joining Trump's team.
“Bannon is a great speaker, but not a great actor,” Musk wrote. “What did he do this week? Nothing.”
Neither White House representative nor Bannon responded to messages about the interview immediately.
