Steve Bannon Says “Evil” Elon Musk Will be Kicked Out of MAGA by the Inauguration

So, the inauguration is in a week.

It’s not clear that Steve Bannon has any power at all in the Trump administration.

Elon Musk, on the other hand, not only gave $250 million to Trump, but also controls Twitter and has shown he will use Twitter to sway opinion for his own political objectives.

Daily Beast:

Steve Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump’s former advisor who helped steer conservative media into the arms of the xenophobic far-right, has vowed to get Trump’s new favorite confidant booted from the White House orbit before next week’s inauguration.

“I will get Elon Musk kicked out by the time he’s inaugurated,” Bannon told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. “He won’t have a blue pass with full access to the White House. He’ll be like everyone else.”

Bannon, a former investment banker and one-time chair of Breitbart News, has clashed with Musk, the CEO of Tesla, in recent weeks as part of a bitter feud over H1-B visas for skilled immigrants.

Critics have argued the tech industry exploits the H1-B program to hire cheaper foreign labor. First generation MAGA hardliners like Bannon, who oversaw Breitbart’s nationalist transition into what he called “the platform for the alt-right,” have called for an end to the program.

Data uncovered by Bloomberg News last year showed middlemen outsourcing companies and IT staffing firms had cheated on a massive scale to get a larger share of the limited annual spaces available through the H1-B program, bringing in people with “less-remarkable resumes, paying them lower wages and heightening the risk of undercutting American labor.”

See? Even the Daily Beast hates Indians.

If this was about Haitian immigrants, they would be citing sources saying they are all totally legit and definitely don’t eat the pets. Instead, they say it’s a big scam.

Musk, one of Trump’s second-generation tech bro backers, initially backed the program, but then softened his stance and conceded it is “broken.”

But not before he signaled his agreement with an X post that claimed Americans were too “retarded” to perform skilled jobs, which left a lasting sting for Bannon and others.

Did he actually say “retarded”?

Okay, I looked it up.

He retweeted this:


Jeez.

“He suffered a major defeat in America on H1B visas, he derided our movement as racist and retarded, and he lost,” added Bannon in the interview Wednesday. “He has the maturity of a child. He has tried to change the conversation, after losing credibility in the United States and the fact that, frankly, people around Trump are tired of him.

He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy,” Bannon added of Musk. “I made it my personal thing to take this guy down. Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”

He changed the conversation to “Fraud Gamer,” which is honestly probably going to have a worse impact on his brand than the H-1B thing.

I don’t believe Bannon can force out Elon at all. I don’t think anyone takes him seriously. He looks like he’s about to die.

Certainly Trump doesn’t take him seriously, but the implication here is that he has connections in the administration that can convince Trump to put Elon out. But I don’t think that’s going to happen. At least not soon. Unless something even more extreme happens.

I wish Baron would tell him Elon must be fired over Fraud Gamer.

“The H-1B thing, I said that was bad, but this fraud gamer is a disaster. You look at this guy’s face, and you think, this guy is a fraud, he says he plays the game, but someone in China is playing it for him, and he tells you it’s his game.”