Steve Bannon Accuses Elon Musk of Demanding Tesla Tax Breaks in West Wing Clashes: Treating Working Americans Like ‘Suckers!’

David Gilmour Nov 12th, 2025, 9:40 am

Steve Bannon accused Elon Musk of trying to secure government guarantees for his businesses like Tesla at the expense of American taxpayers, describing tense exchanges between the pair inside the Trump White House and railing against corporatism.

Speaking on his Real America’s Voice show , Bannon revealed he personally clashed with Musk on the issue “all the time”:

This is the discussion I used to have with Elon all the time. He’d come in the West Wing. He’d want all these guarantees on the button.

I said: ‘Dude, you don’t understand. You’re asking people that make 42,000 bucks a year to essentially get all these ta

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