The comments highlighted rifts within the U.S. right wing and between two men who have been influential advisers to President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Days after fawning over what tech magnate Elon Musk’s deep pockets could do for the MAGA movement, Steve Bannon went berserk on the world’s richest man and vowed to limit his White House influence.

Cracks in the MAGA stronghold may be forming just days ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20, as political strategist Steve Bannon recently lashed out at out at Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Trump recently tapped Musk to lead the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.

Bannon is ramping up public attacks on billionaire Elon Musk amid an intensifying debate on the right about Musk’s influence in the incoming administration. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this past week,

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is going for the jugular on Elon Musk. In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published Wednesday, Bannon lambasted the world’s richest man as a “truly evil guy” who would be out of Trumpworld by Inauguration Day.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is softening his tone on Trump campaign financier turned adviser Elon Musk just days after he vowed to push the Tesla CEO out of the incoming president’s orbit over Musk’s support for a controversial ...

"And as soon as I can turn Elon Musk from a techno-feudalist to a populist nationalist, then we’ll start making real progress."

Bannon leveled numerous insults against Trump’s wealthy ally, labelling him “evil” and urging him to return to his native South Africa.

There has been a brewing war between Donald Trump allies Steve Bannon and Elon Musk, and Republican lawmakers are said to be handing Bannon a weapon to use. Columnist Greg Sargent on Saturday published a piece making the argument that the GOP is gifting something that "Bannon can use this to his advantage in the MAGA civil war over immigration.

Instead, this issue is pitting self-described populist anti-immigration MAGA hard-liners like Steve Bannon against Trump advisers such as Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Sriram Krishnan - all successful businesspeople, and all strong supporters of skilled immigration and a country open to talent.

For a no-holds-barred assessment of what the public can expect when Donald Trump begins his second term as president, it’s always interesting to listen to Steve Bannon, who was a White House senior adviser during Trump’s first year in office and is more than willing to predict what may happen this time.