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.

CNN contributor and podcast host Kara Swisher explains why she agrees with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon about the level of power Elon Musk will have in President-elect Donald Trump’s White House.

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.

The far-right political strategist promised to remove Musk from Trump's inner circle in a recent interview with the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera.

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.

Bannon said Elon Musk has had some influence over the Cabinet picks and policy discussions but he doesn’t “have the ability to actually make decisions

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."

Steve Bannon mocks Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos as Trump ‘supplicants’ making an ‘official surrender’ - Trump’s former White House strategist fires latest volley in MAGA civil war as he compares tech ti

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.