Steve Bannon reiterates requires Elon Musk to be deported to South Africa | EUROtoday

Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, has rekindled his vendetta towards Elon Musk, saying he must be deported, after the president was seen shaking arms with the tech entrepreneur at Charlie Kirk’s memorial.

Bannon, 71, stated he desires to “toss out” Musk and “send him back to South Africa” – the nation of his start – including that Musk’s residing within the U.S. was “totally illegal.”

Bannon’s incendiary statements, made on his “War Room” podcast, got here shortly after Trump signed a brand new govt order requiring all U.S. firms to pay a $100,000 annual payment for each international worker employed by an H-1B visa.

The visas are designed to carry extremely expert international staff to the U.S. for jobs which can be deemed troublesome to fill, notably within the tech sector.

Musk and Bannon have repeatedly clashed over U.S. visa coverage, with Musk defending the H-1B program and as soon as declaring he was able to “go to war on this issue.”

Musk himself has benefited from the system: he first entered the U.S. on a J-1 tutorial visa, which he says later transitioned to an H-1B. His firms stay reliant on this system – Tesla alone employed 724 staff on H-1B visas in 2023, although SpaceX has used markedly much less.

Bannon has in contrast utilizing the visas to slavery, calling them “indentured servitude,” and likewise stated they forestall Americans from accessing jobs.

“Screw you, dude!” he stated on the podcast. “You’re a foreigner that is taking advantage of foreign labor at the detriment of American citizens.”

At the Kirk funeral, Trump was seen reuniting with Musk, simply months after a public falling out following Musk’s departure from his White House position working the Department of Government Efficiency, referred to as DOGE.

The males have been seen on digicam shaking arms on Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale throughout speeches remembering the Turning Point USA founder.

During the memorial, the official White House Rapid Response 47 account shared footage of the lads chatting as Musk joined the president within the stadium. The account appeared to rejoice their reunion, captioning the submit with a love-heart and handshake emoji.

After leaving the White House, the pair’s relationship had quickly deteriorated, with Musk describing Trump’s price range invoice, referred to as the “Big Beautiful Bill” as a “disgusting abomination”, which he stated would improve the price range deficit by $2.5 trillion.

Musk and Trump continued to commerce blows till the Tesla CEO claimed the president appeared within the Epstein information.

“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk wrote. “That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”

Tensions appeared to chill shortly after. On 11 June, Musk expressed “regret” over his posts concerning the president, whereas Trump responded by saying he held “no hard feelings” towards the tech billionaire.

In June this 12 months, Bannon urged the Trump administration to launch a particular counsel investigation into Musk – together with Musk’s immigration historical past and alleged drug use – and stated Musk must be deported.

Musk responded by calling Bannon a “fat, drunken slob” who must be in jail for committing crimes.