Steve Bannon says he knows when things went south between Elon Musk and Trumpworld

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Steve Bannon says he knows when things went south between Elon Musk and Trumpworld

Steve Bannon said “everything changed” for Elon Musk after Trump pushed back against a NYT report.

The Times reported in March that Musk would be briefed on details of any potential war with China.

Musk’s critics pointed to the report as one more element of his power in the Trump White House.

Steve Bannon says he knows exactly when things started to turn against

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in Trumpworld.

In an interview with

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, the former White House chief strategist said “everything changed” for

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after

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denied that the CEO would receive a secret briefing on China.

Musk, after months as the face of the

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in paring down the size of government. And Bannon, who for years has thrown barbs at Musk, highlighted what he saw as the turning point for the Tesla CEO.

“You could feel it, everything changed, the fever had been broken,” Bannon told the magazine regarding the litany of concerns raised about the scope of Musk’s influence within the federal government.

After The New York Times reported in March that Musk was set to be briefed on details regarding any potential war between the US and China, Democratic lawmakers were up in arms over the plans — pointing to ethical and national security concerns.

Trump then took to his Truth Social platform and denied the report, arguing that the Times article was “fake news.”

“They said, incorrectly, that Elon Musk is going to the Pentagon tomorrow to be briefed on any potential ‘war with China,'” Trump said at the time. “How ridiculous? China will not even be mentioned or discussed.”

Given the wide latitude enjoyed by Trump at the onset of DOGE’s work to make dramatic cuts at federal departments and agencies, Musk potentially being present for such sensitive talks raised concerns from critics over the power he held in his role as a “special government employee.”

Musk in recent weeks has spoken about his plans to refocus his energies on Tesla, Space X, and X, with DOGE’s work continuing without the initiative’s most recognizable public face. He also said earlier this week that he will

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on his political donations.

Bannon has long chastised Musk.

In August 2018, during Trump’s first term, Bannon said during a CNN interview that Tesla was “out of control” while also

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“They are all man-childs,” he said at the time. “How can they have this unlimited power? It’s outrageous.”

And in an

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published in April, Bannon said Musk “was always evil.”

“He’s a techno-feudalist,” Bannon said of the tech titan.

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