Steve Bannon Vows to Get Elon Musk Kicked Out of Trump’s Orbit Before Inauguration Day

In the latest from “The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point” department, Steve Bannon precocious called Elon Musk a “truly evil person” without a existent ideology different than amassing and protecting his ain wealth. Speaking to Italian paper Corriere Della Sera, Bannon said “Stopping him has go a idiosyncratic contented for me,” and insisted that helium would get Musk kicked retired of Trump’s interior ellipse by Inauguration Day.

Bannon is, to enactment it arsenic generously arsenic possible, a racist, misogynistic, anti-democratic shitheel who has failed astatine beauteous overmuch everything he’s ever done (with the objection of getting Trump into office, which, to beryllium fair, is simply a beauteous large 1 successful the triumph file there). But helium besides has a beauteous astute work connected Musk—perhaps due to the fact that nary 1 tin spot a charlatan rather similar different charlatan—so fto him navigator for a minute.

In the interview, Bannon argues the lone crushed Musk buddied up to Trump was to support his piles of cash. “He volition bash thing to marque definite that immoderate 1 of his companies is protected oregon has a amended woody oregon helium makes much money,” Bannon said. “His aggregation of wealth, and then–through wealth–power: that’s what he’s focused on.” He argued that Musk has nary ideological lasting to talk of, conscionable the “sole objective” to “become a trillionaire,” and called him a proponent of “techno-feudalism connected a planetary scale.” He besides said that helium expects Musk volition backmost down easily, stating, “He won’t fight. He’s got the maturity of a small boy.”

Bannon and Musk bash look to beryllium headed for a head-on clash arsenic the 2nd Trump medication hurdles toward its commencement date. Musk, presently serving successful the Hanger-On-in-Chief relation that Bannon erstwhile occupied, is inactive gathering up his alleged “Department of Government Efficiency,” according to a caller report from the New York Times. While Musk likes to enactment similar DOGE is already a existent bureau connected Twitter—giving it a grey “government” verified cheque people and everything—the radical seemingly exists chiefly successful Signal chats with Silicon Valley elites.

Musk is reportedly asking tech executives who person expressed involvement successful getting their grubby hands successful the authorities to service six six-month stints, unpaid, moving 80 hours per week—basically Musk’s perfect statement for anyone successful his employ. Those consenting to bash it (the “unpaid” portion has been a non-starter for most, per NYT) volition beryllium embedded wrong an bureau and tasked with making recommendations connected however to amended operations and chopped costs.

Just however existent DOGE volition extremity up being is yet to beryllium seen. Trump did accidental helium volition prosecute creating the group, though it’ll beryllium toothless—able to marque recommendations but small else. And, the latest gossip successful the Trump satellite is that the president-elect is sick of Musk hanging astir truthful much. Appearing connected Kara Swisher’s podcast, New York Times newsman Maggie Haberman precocious said, “Musk seems much consenting to irritate Trump than a batch of different radical person been and little acrophobic astir what it mightiness mean,” and described their concern arsenic a “fraught relationship” with the “potential for becoming adjacent much so.”

If Bannon wants to propulsion Musk retired the window, it definite seems similar Musk is making a constituent of sticking his caput retired of it. But predicting conscionable wherever Trump volition let his loyalties to autumn is difficult. Bannon has already struck 1 stroke successful the MAGA civilian war. During the H-1B visa argument that saw Musk and the techno-bros support the instrumentality for attracting skilled immigrants, Bannon sat connected the different side, arguing that “the full migration strategy is gamed by the tech overlords.” (His existent objection comes from his racist content that determination are excessively galore Asians successful the tech manufacture and that undermines “civic society” but Bannon is bully astatine reframing his positions to effort to conscionable a moment.)

Musk won that fight, with Trump siding with Musk and saying that helium has ever been successful favour of encouraging endowment to travel to America. But the world is that Musk’s usefulness to Trump mightiness beryllium coming to an end. He happily took his currency arsenic Musk threw his afloat value down the Trump candidacy, but it’s not wide that Musk tin proceed to beryllium himself much utile than annoying successful the existent Oval Office. Bannon mightiness beryllium connected the outskirts now, but he’s got a existent cockroach-like quality to survive. The existent shame is that 1 of them has to win. Either way, the remainder of america lose.