Steve Bannon said Tuesday that tech billionaire Elon Musk is “not completely withdrawing” from the MAGA movement, but the former adviser to President-elect Trump He is criticizing Elon Musk.
“As soon as we can transform Elon Musk from a techno-feudalist to a populist nationalist, we will begin to make real progress,” Bannon told POLITICO during its “POLITICO Handbook: The First 100 Days” event. told Dasha Burns. Clips highlighted by Mediaite.
“If you can't turn him around, do you want him out?'' Burns asked.
Mr. Bannon responded that Mr. Musk was “not going to be fully involved,” later adding, “When I wrote a check worth $250 million, when I got the funds, when I was that involved, in fact… “You would do that when you supported a ground war in the United States,” he added. Sit down at the table. ”
Musk recently came under Bannon's criticism in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
“We're going to get Elon Musk out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon told the paper. “He's a really evil guy, a really bad guy. I've made it my personal mission to take this guy down.”
Bannon also went after Musk's fellow tech mogul, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on Monday's episode of his podcast “Bannon's War Room.”
“I don't trust Mr. Zuckerberg at all,” Bannon said on his show, in a clip featured by Mediaite. “He came to the Oval Office when I was in the Oval Office. … I was completely freaked out, and yet he got to the Oval Office.”
“He then spent $450 million of his own money stealing the 2020 election,” Bannon added. “To steal the 2020 election. These guys are petitioners now because President Trump is coming with the American people. [having] his back. ”
The Hill has reached out to Tesla for comment.
