Steve Bannon unloaded on Elon Musk, calling him a "truly evil guy" who must be run out of the MAGA movement. Musk spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to help return President-elect Donald Trump to the White House. The billionaire Tesla CEO and owner of X has been a fixture at Mar-a-Lago ever since, with some reports indicating Musk's near-constant presence is wearing on Trump. "I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day," Bannon, a former Trump White House adviser, told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in an interview published on Wednesday. The article was flagged on Saturday by Bannon's former employer, Breitbart, which published excerpts in English. "He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down," Bannon said. "Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I'm not prepared to tolerate it anymore."
In addition to Musk, Bannon blasted David Sacks and Peter Thiel, who also have roots in apartheid South Africa.
"Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans," Bannon said. "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?"
Bannon took particular umbrage at a reply Musk made to a tweet suggesting Americans are "retarded."
"That pretty much sums it up," Musk wrote in a post last month that has since been deleted.
"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."
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