Exclusive | Citadel's Ken Griffin feels heat from Milken MAGA takeover: 'an out-of-touch, clueless billionaire'

Allies of President Trump are angling for a showdown with tariff-bashing hedge fund mogul Ken Griffin at a glitzy Los Angeles shindig for financial elites this week — with Steve Bannon casting it as “nationalists versus globalists in Beverly Hills,” The Post has learned.Citadel boss Griffin traditionally hosts the VIP champagne-fueled welcome soirée at the Milken Institute Global Conference, an annual gathering for America’s top corporate titans dubbed the “Davos of the West,” and is one of the California forum’s main sponsors.But this year, as he helps open the up-to $50,000-a-head boondoggle at the Beverly Hilton, Griffin will face a rival reception hosted at the same hour at the Peninsula Beverly Hills next door — steathily organized by senior Trump advisor Richard Grenell.An invite to Grenell’s uber-exclusive, behind-closed-door event obtained by The Post will also feature brief remarks from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that kicks off at 4 p.m.Pacific Time on Sunday.“It will be your only chance of talking to Bessent in private,” said one source, who said that a few dozen hand-picked heads of state and Wall Street titans would be in attendance.Sources close to the organizers, Tactic Global, a DC-based consultancy, said the event — which has not been formally announced — had just 75 places.Sources told The Post that the rival event was set up after Griffin repeatedly irked the administration with his relentless public criticism of the president’s trade and immigration policies.“It will be nationalists versus the globalists in Beverly Hills,” former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told The Post.The Post has approached a Citadel spokesperson for comment.Griffin, worth an estimated $42 billion, has blasted Trump for allegedly “eroding” the American “brand” over his Liberation Day April 2 announcement at the White House over his plans to slap tariffs on imported goods in a bid to bring back jobs to the U.S.“We ...