‘I Hate to Say it, But I Agree With Steve Bannon’: The View Stunningly Backs MAGA Firebrand in Battle With Elon Musk
The View panel surprisingly agreed with MAGA firebrand Steve Bannon regarding his attacks on billionaire Elon Musk.
In a new interview, Bannon tore into Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency for not having much to show for its work so far. The former Trump adviser also labeled Musk a “parasitic illegal immigrant.” Sara Haines and her View co-host Joy Behar found themselves siding with Bannon while denouncing Musk’s “businessman’s approach to government.”
“I hate to say it, but I agree with Steve Bannon on this one purely because, you know, they’re cutting all these programs,” Haines told the panel. “They’re saying they’re going to cut the fat and they have numbers. Before they ever went in, they said, we want to get 1 trillion out of you. That’s a businessman’s approach to a government. This is the public sector, not the private sector.”
HAINES: You don’t come in with numbers and you come in — you learn. You become an expert at what everyone’s doing, what their role is, who’s essential. And then you say it’s realistic to have this goal and then you cut the fat. The thing that Trump’s not doing, though, is he wants to keep some of the tax cuts he had originally said. And what Bannon is stands for, which breaks with Elon Musk, is don’t tax over time, don’t tax Social Security, give the money to the people that need it the most.
BEHAR: Who? Bannon says that? Wow, that sounds like a lefty to me.
HAINES: Why do you think I said I agree with Steve Bannon. That rarely happens. But on this, I do agree with them. Trump ran on helping the people that voted him in. And what he’s doing is he’s in there now and he’s breaking in the corporate greed area, which is I’m going to give tax breaks to people that can afford it more than anyone else. Steve Bannon says it is going to hurt for all of us. We all got into this together. You need to give the breaks to the lower in the middle class. Stop slashing and helping the top. They don’t need more.
Watch the clip above via ABC’s The View.
