Bannon, who served as Donald Trump 's White House chief strategist for seven months in 2017, made the comment on social media platform Gettr, which is primarily used by conservatives. Newsweek emailed Elon Musk via the Tesla and SpaceX press offices and Steve Bannon via his war room podcast for comment.

The H-1B visa programme is under the spotlight in the US after Sriram Krishnan’s appointment as adviser on artificial intelligence policy in the upcoming Donald Trump administration.

A Trump World civil war has erupted over visas for highly skilled workers, with the president-elect’s new tech industry allies like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on one side and the anti-immigration MAGA base on the other.

The Tesla CEO argues the U.S. needs to court top talent after financing the loudest anti-immigration run in decades.

Elon Musk blasted a segment of the MAGA movement as “contemptible fools” and called for them to be ousted from the Republican Party. The tweet from the Tesla CEO and owner of X, formerly Twitter, was the latest salvo in what some are calling a “civil war” among the far right.

The conflict centers on Musk and Ramaswamy’s recent praise for foreign tech workers, beginning soon after Indian immigrant Sriram Krishnan joined the team of Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks. It’s pitted Trump’s tech mogul donor class against his older network of far-right influencers like activist and Trump companion Laura Loomer while escalating into racist rhetoric against Indian Americans in particular.

Elon Musk recently shared a playful post on X, revealing he uses Mounjaro, a weight loss drug, to achieve his thinner look.

This holiday season, Elon Musk is calling himself “Ozempic Santa.” Adorned in a Santa Suit on a photo posted to X, The Tesla founder indicates he’s taking one of the widely popular weight loss drugs,

The tech billionaire celebrated Ozempic in a Christmas Day social media post that contrasted with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s stance on the drug.