Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said over the weekend that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk should be investigated by a special counsel.Newsweek reached out to Musk via the X communications team via email on Monday.

"You’re going to tell me we should allow some f---ing punk to sit there and say he should be impeached and [VP] JD [Vance] should step in," he went on to say. "F--- you, dude. We’re going to go to f---ing war,

Elon Musk has hit back at Steve Bannon after the longtime MAGA hardliner called on President Donald Trump to “seize” SpaceX. Following this week’s nuclear fall-out between Trump and top campaign donor Musk—who until last week was also one of the president’s most important advisers—Bannon slammed Musk’s government cost-cutting efforts and called for him to be deported.