ROME – Former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, vowing to oust the tech billionaire from the White House before President Donald Trump takes office.
Bannon: “We'll get Elon Musk out of here by Inauguration Day'' said italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera this week. “He doesn't have a blue pass to the White House, he doesn't have full access to the White House, he's going to be just like everyone else.”
“He's a really evil guy, a really bad guy. It was my personal job to bring this guy down,” Bannon added. “Before, I was willing to tolerate it because he put the money in. I'm not ready to tolerate it anymore.”
The latest clash between Elon Musk and Steve Bannon has centered on immigration issues, particularly H-1B visas for skilled immigrants working in “professional occupations,” which Musk has said he supports. But for Mr. Bannon, this issue is emblematic of a larger problem in Mr. Musk's thinking.
“The problem with H-1B visas is that the entire immigration system has been manipulated by the tech overlords. They're using it for their own benefit, and people are furious,” Bannon said. said, “76 percent of the engineers working in Silicon Valley are non-American.''
“Black people and Hispanic people can't have these jobs and can't hold these jobs,” Bannon said.
“Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk are all white South Africans,” Bannon said. “He should go back to South Africa. Why are they letting white South Africans, the most racist people on the planet, even comment on what's going on in the United States?”
“We have been fighting this battle for 10 years,” he declared. “We're going to expose the whole corruption of the American system, how money controls everything. Hopefully we can encourage everyone in Italy to wake up,” he said. Corriere della Sera Journalist Viviana Mazza.
On the issue of H-1B visas and their importance to the U.S. economy, Bannon claimed that Elon “just suffered a huge defeat here in America.”
“He went out of his way to ridicule our movement as racist and retarded and lost,” Bannon said. “We blew him out of the water. He won't fight. He has the maturity of a young boy.”
“There's been a huge loss of trust here in the United States, and frankly people around Trump are tired of it,” Musk said.
Bannon went on to accuse Musk of being selfish, claiming that Musk's “only purpose is to become a trillionaire.”
“He will do anything to have one of his companies protected, get a better deal, or make more money. His collective wealth, and the power he has through his wealth. , that's what he's focused on,” Bannon said.
Bannon said Musk's financial support for President Trump is a positive thing, adding that the same should be done for various populist movements in Europe.
“What's not positive,” he added, “is that all of a sudden he's trying to implement what is actually a half-baked idea of practicing technological feudalism on a global scale. I don't support that, and I don't support that. , we are going to fight it.”
