Amid growing discontent among President Donald Trump's most high-profile far-right supporters, his former adviser Steve Bannon has called Trump's newest favorite, Elon Musk, a “racist” and a “true believer.” He called him an “evil man” and vowed to “bring this man down.” ” and kicked him out of the MAGA movement.
In an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper (excerpts of which were published by Breitbart this weekend), Mr. Bannon criticized Mr. Musk's acceptance of some forms of immigration, saying that Mr. I vowed not to have top-level access.
“He's a really evil guy, a really bad guy, and it was my personal job to take this guy down,” Bannon said. “Before, I was ready to tolerate it because he put money in, but now I'm not ready to tolerate it.”
He added: “We're going to get Elon Musk out of here by Inauguration Day on January 20th.” “He won't have full access to the White House. He'll be just like anyone else.”
Mr Musk became one of Mr Trump's biggest cheerleaders during the Republican Party's ultimately successful campaign to take back the US presidency and became arguably the richest man, reportedly spending around $270 million. , has been rewarded with sitting by Trump's side ever since.
After his victory, Mr. Trump appointed Mr. Musk to lead an advisory group theoretically dedicated to cutting U.S. government spending by up to $2 trillion, or a quarter of the entire budget.
But Musk's embrace of the H-1B visa, which allows companies such as his own SpaceX and Tesla to hire skilled professionals and engineers from outside the United States, opposes nearly all forms of immigration. It is badly received by other MAGA believers. Mr. Musk, who was born in South Africa, himself holds an H1-B visa.
“The problem with the H-1B visa is that the entire immigration system is being gamed by the tech overlords. They use it to their own advantage. The public is outraged,” Trump said. said Bannon, who was fired from his White House post during the president's first administration but later reinvented himself as one of the MAGA movement's chief evangelists through his War Room podcast.
Mr. Bannon also expanded on his attacks on Mr. Musk's fellow tech giants Peter Thiel and David Sachs for their South African heritage.
“He (Musk) should go back to South Africa,” Bannon said. “Why would white South Africans, the most racist people on the planet, have any South Africans even comment on what's going on in the United States?”
Bannon claimed that Musk's “sole purpose is to become a millionaire” and called him a promoter of “global techno-feudalism”, adding: “I don't support that. We don't support it. We will fight,'' he said, adding: won't fight. He has the maturity of a boy.
“He will do anything to get one of his companies protected, get a better deal or make more money.
“His collection of wealth, and power through wealth. That's what he's focused on.”
