MAGA influencer Steve Bannon heaped praise on reports that Elon Musk was reduced to a public dressing down by President Donald Trump, who cut the tech billionaire’s power to fire federal workers in his capacity as chair of the Department of Government Efficiency.
“This is huge,” Bannon proclaimed. “This has now come to a head of DOGE.”
The latest pot-shot in the simmering feud between the two top Trump allies erupted Thursday following reports that Trump called his cabinet together to deliver the message to the tech billionaire, whose mass firings have drawn criticism from lawmakers on Capitol Hill and outrage from Americans.
“He had his wings clipped,” Bannon said Thursday on his “War Room” podcast. “He was told point blank by the president in front of people – only department heads – only my cabinet officials or the heads of these alphabet agencies can actually fire people, you're a consultant advisor you have to go to them and do it.”
Bannon, a former White House strategist, gleefully added that “the president took it down even a notch from there.”
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“He said, ‘Hey people are not showing up, people that did not come back to work, people are underperformers, people that are not up to the task, people are not doing their job, yes they should be let go, but I don't want any more mass firings, I don't want to a hatchet, I want a scalpel.”'
While Bannon made clear that he was “a huge supporter of DOGE,” he said it couldn’t continue “in just darkness.”
The former Trump adviser concluded that Musk having his powers limited by the president was “pretty brutal.”
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