Steve Bannon Calls For Elon Musk To Be ‘Deported’ & SpaceX To Be ‘Seized’ By Feds After His Feud With Trump

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Alessio AtriaJune 9, 2025, 1:31 pmNews >

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon criticized X CEO Elon Musk following his public feud with President Donald Trump.

“The president treated him almost like a son,” Bannon told Politico. “He invited his family to Christmas dinner. He let him sleep over. He let him walk in and out of meetings. The president went to the max informality to welcome this guy.

“You’re going to tell me we should allow some f—ing punk to sit there and say he should be impeached and [VP] JD [Vance] should step in? F— you, dude. We’re going to go to f—ing war, and I’m going to rip your f—ing face off.

“Peter Navarro – and I’ve recommended, and I hope he’s drafting executive orders even as we speak – should implement the Defense Production Act to seize both SpaceX and Starlink and put them under government management until that time that all investigations into Musk are complete.”

Bannon demanded investigations into Musk’s immigration status, security clearance, drug use and alleged involvement with the Chinese Communist Party, in addition to other allegations.

In an X post made last Tuesday, Musk slammed Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-South Dakota) plan to pass Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a tax proposal that economists say might expand America’s deficit by $600 billion, by July 4.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” the X CEO declared on his social media platform. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

“It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt,” he also said in a separate post.

On June 5, Trump replied to Musk’s remarks on X in a Truth Social post.

“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY,” the president declared in the post.

Musk replied on social media that Trump owed his 2024 presidential election victory to him. He asserted that without his help, Democrats would still have control of the White House.

Their feud proceeded last week when Musk claimed in a now-deleted X post that Trump has connections to convicted trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

“Time to drop the really big bomb,” the billionaire said on X. “[Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.”

“Mark this post for the future,” he said in a now-deleted follow-up post. “The truth will come out.”

Trump responded on Truth Social: “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that [Joe Biden] didn’t do it!”

In January, Bannon mentioned to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that he would have Musk “run out” of Trump’s inner circle by Inauguration Day.