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.

In a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO’s White House bureau chief Dasha Burns on Tuesday, the former Trump strategist and War Room podcast host taunted Elon Musk, predicted a much tighter ship at the White House and spoke about what his upcoming fraud trial might mean for his impact in Trump world. Here are our top takeaways.

Trump’s former White House strategist fires latest volley in MAGA civil war as he compares tech titans to Imperial Japan’s generals giving their unconditional surrender

As Trump’s big-tent GOP returns to power, Bannon and Musk have served as a prime example of the infighting already underway.

Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer; Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif. Steve Bannon, former strategist for President-elect Donald Trump; Jonathan Dekel-Chen and Gillian Kaye, parents of Israeli American held hostage by Hamas.

Steve Bannon, a former Trump aide and icon of the Make America Great Again movement, regularly rents out Butterworth’s for parties. A former co-host of Bannon’s show, Raheem Kassam, is an investor in the restaurant who is often hanging out behind the host stand with a Guinness or fretting over a cupboard that won’t stay closed.

Trump’s administration is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave, and that agencies develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

Donald Trump began his first day as the 47th president of the United States with a dizzying display of force, signing a blizzard of executive orders that signaled his desire to remake American institutions while also pardoning nearly all of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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U.S. Vice President-elect former Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrive to inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Credit - Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images

President Donald Trump will be sworn back into office, the culmination of a comeback that seemed impossible just a few short years ago. Almost as improbable is the inner circle Trump has cultivated in his second tour of office: a coterie of Silicon Valley powerbrokers that seem ready to upend the longstanding balance of power in Washington,

The weekend’s pre-inaugural balls and parties reflected the exuberance of an ascendant MAGA movement—and the factional dissent already emerging.