Steve Bannon vs. Elon Musk
The feud that's happening before Donald Trump returns to the White House
There's nothing like listening to this latest episode of the Countdown With Keith Olbermann podcast, where he begins with the feud between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk.
This feud has its origin with the issue of immigration. Steve Bannon wants to get rid of all illegal immigrants (especially if they are non-white) while Elon Musk is all for bringing more immigrants with H-1B visas into the country. Musk promoted his views on Twitter/X, which alienated many of MAGA Trump supporters and created this drama on Musk's own platform. When Musk made his infamous “Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face” tweet, Bannon took a screenshot of that tweet, reposted it on Gettr while asking for Child Protective Services “to do a ‘wellness check’ on this toddler.”
Now Steve Bannon has upped the ante on his displeasure with Elon Musk. He gave an interview with an Italian publication with excerpts being posted on Breitbart, the far-right website that Bannon once worked for. I usually don't quote or link to far-right websites but what Bannon has said about Musk is pretty hilarious to those who aren't fans of either men. Here are a few choice quotes:
“I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera this week. “He will not have a blue pass to the White House, he will not have full access to the White House, he will be like any other person.”
“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon added. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”
“Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans,” Bannon observed. “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?”
“He went out of his way to mock our movement as racist and retards, and he lost,” Bannon said. “We blew him out of the water. He won’t fight. He’s got the maturity of a little boy.”
He's not wrong in his assessment of Musk but I'm not going to take sides in this fight because, to be honest, it would be like taking sides in a battle between the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Both men are not only big supporters of Donald Trump but Steve Bannon and Elon Musk are both allied with Vladimir Putin (so is Donald Trump, for that matter). It's still pretty hilarious to see two men with a lot in common engage in a public feud. The only other thing I'm going to say is that Bannon now has less than a week left to make good on his threat to run Elon Musk out of the White House by Inauguration Day.
Meanwhile I'm thinking about buying some popcorn to munch on while I'm reading updates about this feud. I normally go for the generic store brand but I'm thinking about splurging on some Orville Redenbacher's just for this special occasion. Or maybe I should relive my childhood and buy some Jiffy-Pop, the popcorn that comes in an aluminum tin pan that you pop on the stove and this giant aluminum bubble forms as the popcorn pops. (Which was why I loved Jiffy-Pop as a child. To a child's eyes, seeing that aluminum bubble go up as the popcorn popped was the coolest thing in the world.) Decisions, decisions! At least deciding on popcorn is easier than picking sides in this Bannon-Musk feud.
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