Trump Advisor Calls on Trump to Nationalize SpaceX Immediately

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is urging the president to nationalize Elon Musk's SpaceX and deport the billionaire. Bannon, a far-right white nationalist commentator who served as Trump's chief strategist during his first term, insisted that Trump should sign an executive order invoking a Korean War-era national security mobilization law called the Defense Production Act to assume control over Musk's space firm, as well as its Starlink satellite constellation. "The US government should seize it," Bannon said on his podcast. The news comes after Musk escalated his highly public flame war with president Donald Trump on Thursday, vowing that "SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately," a move that would've effectively cut off NASA's access to space. However, mere hours later, Musk reversed course, agreeing to "cool off." While it seems quite unlikely that Trump would actually go for Bannon's outrageous plan, the reality TV star's infamous unpredictabilit ... Read full article.