To say that Steve Bannon is not a fan of Elon Musk would be easygoing.
In 2023, a former White House chief strategist suggested that Musk is a “complete and complete fake” who is “owned by the Chinese Communist Party with a lock, stockpile, and barrel.”
Then last week, after Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy created a storm of criticism over H-1B visas, Bannon said Musk and other technology companies using H-1B labor “want technical feudalism.”
And on Saturday, Bannon suggested that Musk has “masters in Beijing” in Sunday’s WarRoom episode, in which Bannon discussed Musk’s decision to change X’s algorithm to reduce “negativity.”
“It’s a CCP. It’s a social credit score,” Bannon said, adding, “He has a glass chin… He has reached the age of maturity of 11 years. It’s obvious, he can’t accept criticism.”
“One of his weaknesses is that he has to be loved. She needs the masses to love her. He needs the masses to love him, you can tell when he’s on stage, he needs that honor.”
Bannon then returned to the H-1B visa bar, for which Musk began to catch big from the right side.
“So when his apparatus turns against him, and especially against the people who cheered him, who said, ‘Hey, we hate what you do with this country, we now know you’re lying to us, bald-headed lie, these aren’t highly skilled people’ and they turn, suddenly he has to go to the Chinese credit score,” he continued.
“They have a digital ghetto. And to have only lifted up what praises him. It’s like a little boy’s mental ‘I want to be a superhero, I want to put on a coat and kind of skip.'”
“It’s an absolute sign of immaturity, of not being able to handle things as an adult. And that’s what you see implemented here on Twitter,” Bannon said.
Musk’s decision to modify the X algorithm to “maximize user seconds” hasn’t gone well — especially among the “free speech” crowd who kicked back in shock during the H-1B visa debate when people critical of the program found themselves demonetized or outright banned from the platform.
