Steve Bannon says there’s no MAGA ‘civil war’ because Elon Musk is ‘not tough enough’
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“They folded – I mean, it was embarrassing,” Steve Bannon said on Monday, referencing Elon Musk’s tweets over the weekend when he said the H-1B visa program needed to be “reformed.”. According to the former Trump strategist, who previously called Musk a “toddler” after the X (formerly Twitter) owner profanely attacked his right-wing critics, there wasn’t a MAGA “civil war” on immigrant workers because Musk is “not tough enough” and “folded” on the issue amid the far-right backlash.
While the schism between “OG MAGA” and Trump-backing tech oligarchs over highly skilled immigrant workers had been roiling all last week, it boiled over when Musk agreed with an X user that Americans were too “r*tarded” to fill Silicon Valley’s need for qualified engineers. The blowback only got worse when he referred to his detractors as “hateful unrepentant racists” who needed to be removed from the GOP.
Musk sparked further derision from anti-immigrant diehards when he paraphrased the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder by telling critics to “take a big step back and F*** YOURSELF in the face,” vowing that he would “go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot comprehend.”.
The naturalized American citizen, who claims he used an H-1B visa himself, conceded on Saturday night that the program was “broken” after a social media user claimed the visas were used to hire low-paid workers. “Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1-B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically,” he said, adding: “I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform. I’m confident that the changes made in the @realDonaldTrump administration will make America much stronger.”.
