Overview

• Steve Bannon told the New York Times he believes Elon Musk is an illegal alien and should be deported immediately
• He urged the White House to investigate Musk’s citizenship history and suspend his security clearances
• Bannon is also seeking probes into Musk’s alleged drug use and his bid for classified Pentagon briefings on potential China war plans
• The spat followed Musk’s public condemnation of Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ and revives their earlier clash over H-1B visa policy
• Analysts say the feud exposes a split in MAGA between Bannon’s nationalist populists and a tech-aligned faction led by Musk