Steve Bannon Calls for Elon Musk to be Deported
During the fallout of Elon Musk going off on his platform X, Steve Bannon — former Trump official during the first term and co-campaign manager during the 2016 campaign — called for Elon Musk to be deported.
Bannon stated:
“They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status, because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately.”
Bannon also urged the President to invoke the Defense Production Act to take control of Musk’s rocket company:
“The action that President Trump should be taking immediately, I think, is when [Musk] threatens to take one of the big programs out of SpaceX, President Trump tonight should sign an executive order calling for the Defense Production Act to be called in on SpaceX and seize SpaceX tonight, before midnight.”
Now, while it’s perfectly reasonable for many on the right to view these demands as over the top, they underscore one thing clearly: Elon Musk is making a major political miscalculation by turning on President Trump.
He’s already hated by the left for supporting Trump during the 2024 campaign. Turning on Trump now is unlikely to win him any points with the liberal establishment.
So, while we don’t agree with Steve Bannon that Elon should be deported or that the government should seize his companies, this moment is a telling sign of which way the political winds are blowing in the MAGA movement—and how they now view Musk.
