Steve Bannon goes berserk on Elon Musk, vows to drive him away from White House: ‘He is a truly evil guy’

Billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel, is German-American but lived in South Africa and Namibia as a child.

Days after fawning over what tech magnate Elon Musk’s deep pockets could do for the MAGA movement, Steve Bannon went berserk on the world’s richest man and vowed to limit his White House influence.

Musk has espoused increasingly conservative viewpoints in the public eye since the COVID-19 pandemic. In the GOP primaries, he backed alternatives to Trump, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). However, after the July 13 assassination attempt, Musk began going all in on the president-elect.

Last month, just before Christmas, a war erupted within the MAGA movement between the tech bros and immigration hardliners over H1-B visas, which permit foreign workers to come to the US for specialty occupations.

Bannon complained that Musk’s “sole objective is to become a trillionaire.” Bannon has previously called for more taxes on the wealthy and warned about a French Revolution-style uprising in the US over the growing disparities between the mega-rich and the poor.

Democrats have attempted to poke at both Musk’s and Trump’s egos and pit the two against each other. Last month, when Musk whipped up public opposition to a government funding bill in Congress, Democrats branded him “President Musk,” though Trump has so far declined to take the bait.

“Musk will do anything to make sure that any one of his companies is protected or has a better deal or he makes more money,” Bannon further groused. “His aggregation of wealth, and then — through wealth — power: that’s what he’s focused on.”

“Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans,” he added. “He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”

“If he puts the same amount of money into all of Europe that he put behind Trump, he will flip every nation to a populist agenda. There’s not a centrist left-wing government in Europe that will be able to withstand that onslaught.”

“I support his participation because the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Bannon told Bloomberg. “Musk just spent a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Trump.”

Before Musk got behind Trump, Bannon had lashed out at the Tesla and SpaceX for not being critical of China. Musk has waded heavily into US and European politics, but largely eschewed mention of China, where he has factories and a massive Tesla sales business.

Bannon also unleashed on other big-name billionaire Trump backers.

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