Musk calls Bannon a ‘fat, drunken slob’ and says he needs to be arrested as their feud rages on | EUROtoday

Elon Musk and Steve Bannon escalated their feud over the July Fourth weekend by exchanging fiery insults over their respective platforms.

On Bannon’s podcast War Roomthe previous Trump adviser raged in opposition to Musk for polling his X followers about beginning a brand new political celebration within the United States, saying Musk was being disingenuous and needs to be deported.

“Only a foreigner could do this,” Bannon stated. “Think about it, he’s got up on Twitter right now a poll about starting an American Party – a non-American starting an American Party. No, brother, you’re not an American; you’re a South African.”

“If we take enough time and prove the facts of that, you should be deported,” Bannon said.

Bannon, a loyal Trump loyalist who went to federal jail for refusing to adjust to a congressional subpoena, believes Musk has ulterior motives for being near the president. He’s known as for Musk to be investigated a number of occasions.

On Musk’s X account, the tech billionaire responded by calling Bannon a “fat, drunken slob” who needs to be in jail for committing crimes.

“The fat, drunken slob called Bannon will go back to prison and this time for a long time. He has a lifetime of crime to pay for,” Musk wrote.

Musk has been a United States citizen since 2002.

Despite the 2 males being near Trump at varied durations, they’ve little in frequent.

Unlike Trump’s first administration, Bannon doesn’t have a proper position within the White House. But he has nonetheless used his platform to bolster Trump and defend him in opposition to all assaults. Bannon has been vocal about his disdain for Musk, advocating for the revocation of his authorities contracts and questioning his citizenship standing.

Musk, who helped get Trump elected with beneficiant donations, spent a number of months within the administration earlier than a bitter falling out with the president over their totally different views on Trump’s signature laws.

As a results of the current falling out, Bannon seems to have upped his assaults on Musk.

The hostile relationship between the 2 escalated particularly as a result of Musk polled his 221 million X followers about launching a brand new political celebration, known as the “America Party,” on Independence Day.