Send Him Back! - How Steve Bannon Wants to Deport Elon Musk and the American Right Descends Into Civil War

It was a sentence so charged it sparked like a fuse into a political powder keg: "They should launch a formal investigation into his immigration status because I firmly believe he is an illegal alien and should be deported from the country immediately." Spoken by Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's former chief strategist, aimed at none other than Elon Musk, the South African billionaire, entrepreneur, and poster child of a derailed tech utopia. What began as a power struggle between a former president and a tech eccentric has now escalated into an open feud whose collateral damage extends far beyond the individuals involved.

Because Musk had previously dropped the "big bomb" himself: "Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That's the real reason they haven't been released. Have a nice day DJT!" A sentence that shook the political class and shattered even the last loyalties. The fact that this accusation comes from Musk, a man once courted by Trump and showered with billions in government contracts, lends the affair explosive drama. And Trump responded, as Trump always does - by threatening to cut off all government subsidies to Musk and cancel all contracts with SpaceX and Tesla. "He's an ungrateful loser," Trump reportedly told aides. It's an oligarchs' war, a struggle for narrative control and ego, one that has turned the White House into a fortress of defiance.

Bannon, who has long served as the ideological demolition expert of the MAGA movement, sees his moment. He doesn't just want Musk deported - he is also demanding a full investigation into Musk's alleged rampant drug use, his attempts to obtain classified briefings from the Pentagon, and his ties to China. "This man is a threat to national security," Bannon declared. "And it's time to pull the plug."

The demands are not only radical - they are symptomatic of a movement increasingly devouring itself. What began as a unified front against "the establishment" has devolved into an internal civil war: old-school Trumpists versus tech billionaires, evangelicals versus libertarians, paranoid nationalists versus global pragmatists. In this chaos, Musk has suddenly become the target of a system he helped create. The ironic twist: Bannon wants to deport a man who helped make Trump's America possible in the first place.

And behind it all burns the fire of political reality. Trump's new budget bill - labeled a "disgusting abomination" by Musk - is expected, according to the Congressional Budget Office, to strip nearly eleven million Americans of health insurance over the next decade, while increasing the military budget to over one trillion dollars, slashing taxes by $3.7 trillion for the wealthiest, and adding $2.4 trillion to the national deficit. It is the rupture of a social contract now backfiring with full force on those who once defended it.

The war between Musk and Trump is not just a feud between two men. It is a mirror. One in which an America gazes at itself, lost in its own reflection. And a country must now ask itself - who remains when even the powerful begin to destroy one another?