White House plays down ‘fistfight’ claim after ‘big-time drug addict’ slur emerges - Steve Bannon says he was told Elon Musk pushed his shoulder into Scott Bessent ‘like a rugby player’

"We’re all trying to figure out what happened here," the Fox News anchor told the Trump White House press secretary.

Musk thrust his shoulder into Bessent’s rib cage “like a rugby player,” The Washington Post reported, based on an interview with Trump ally Steve Bannon. Bessent started to hit Musk back, and the fight had to be broken up by several bystanders. The world’s richest man was “shuffled out of the West Wing,” according to the Post.