Musk calls for MAGA’s ‘contemptible fools’ to be expelled from the Republican Party
Tesla CEO Elon Musk may have financed an anti-immigrant, ‘America First’ presidential campaign to the tune of $250 million, but his call for more skilled foreign-born workers sparked massive backlash from President-elect Donald Trump’s far-right supporters.
Musk on Wednesday asserted that there was a “dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America” and called for increased visa availability, drawing scorn from many of Trump’s followers and close allies.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a momentary pick for Trump’s attorney general, criticized Musk’s influence in the White House and H-1B Visa stance in a post to X on Thursday.
“We welcomed the tech bros when they came running our way,” Gaetz wrote. “We did not ask them to engineer an immigration policy.” [Continue reading…]
Steve Bannon has joined the MAGA war between hard-line immigration opponents and tech executives like Elon Musk, taking the side of xenophobia on his War Room show Friday.
“H-1B visas? That’s not what it’s about. It’s about taking American jobs and bringing over essentially what have become indentured servants at lower wages,” the former Trump adviser turned pundit said, referring to the visa program that allows immigrants in specialized fields to work in the United States temporarily. [Continue reading…]
Yes.
And those contemptible fools must be removed from the Republican Party, root and stem.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2024