Steve Bannon says Trump ‘broke’ tech bros Musk and Zuckerberg - who don’t really believe in MAGA movement
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‘They're not there because they support Trump. They're there because the Trump movement and President Trump broke them’ Bannon said ahead of Trump’s inauguration. Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon has fired a fusillade of heavy blows at the Silicon Valley tech triad arguing that the Trump 2.0 era will “break all these guys eventually.”.
![[Steve Bannon is often vocal on the Republican lawmakers and conservative media executives who he believes have pledged fake loyalty to Trump and his administration]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/18/22/Screenshot-2025-01-18-at-2.11.50%E2%80%AFpm.jpg)
Speaking about the three richest men in the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who all attended Trump’s inauguration, Bannon said an era of “techno-feudalism” had arisen but that the tech “oligarchs” would undoubtedly falter in the new Trump era.
![[Bannon specifically targeted Musk and said he and the other tech CEO’s ‘don’t believe in the underlying tenets of self-governance’]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/21/19/TRUMP-MUSK_89541.jpg)
“They're not there because they support Trump. They're there because the Trump movement and President Trump broke them,” Bannon said ahead of Trump’s inauguration. At that time, Bannon claimed he could rid the X head before Trump’s inauguration – a plan that inevitably failed. “I will get Elon Musk kicked out by the time he’s inaugurated,” Bannon told the newspaper.
![[Zuckerberg, like Musk, attended the Trump inauguration. Bannon said the Meta found followed Musk and they saw where polling was headed]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/20/20/SEI236706865.jpg)
“He won’t have a blue pass with full access to the White House. He’ll be like everyone else”, he added. At the heart of the Bannon v. Musk battle, lie their differing stances on H-1B visas for high-skilled immigrant workers. Musk used his background as a South African immigrant to justify his stance when he claimed: “The reason I’m in America [...] is because of H1B.”.
“First off, these oligarchs are completely created by the Democratic Party and the lords of easy money. Remember, for the last four years, they had no problem at all with the oligarchs until they flipped and surrendered after we won,” Bannon said.
