President-elect Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon is ramping up public attacks on billionaire Elon Musk amid an intensifying debate on the right about Musk’s influence in the incoming administration.

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.

Trump's former chief strategist told ABC Sunday he believes the billionaires' inauguration attendance is an "official surrender" to the next administration.

Cracks in the MAGA stronghold may be forming just days ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20, as political strategist Steve Bannon recently lashed out at out at Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Trump recently tapped Musk to lead the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.

Prominent right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon recently vowed to take down Elon Musk, a billionaire and ally of Donald Trump 's, by the president-elect's inauguration next week. Newsweek has reached out to Musk and Trump's transition team via email for comment on Sunday afternoon.

Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon said Elon Musk should "go back to South Africa'" in an interview with an Italian newspaper.

After a spat over the future of H-1B visas threatened a full-blown schism in Trumpworld, MAGA elder and longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon has publicly declared war against Elon Musk, vowing to run the billionaire out of President-elect Donald Trump’s influence circle before Trump becomes president.

Steve Bannon appears to have had enough of Elon Musk. President-elect Donald Trump ’s former chief strategist has called Musk “a truly evil person” and said “stopping him” from influencing the incoming president has “become a personal issue” for him.

Steve Bannon has yet again slammed Elon Musk—this time for the billionaire’s petty criticism of an artificial intelligence project rolled out by Donald Trump that involves his tech rival Sam Altman. Bannon rebuked Musk for bringing ”his own personal vendetta” into the White House and suggesting Altman,

Now that Trump is president again, the right’s moment of unity is over.

Trump's former chief strategist not officially part of the new administration. That won't stop his influence from being felt across the beltway.