Donald Trump’s insistence that America doesn’t have talented workers drew angry blowback from his own MAGA supporters.
The backlash exploded after Fox News host Laura Ingraham and the president clashed over work visas.
She suggested that H-1B or ‘talent’ visas for highly qualified migrants remain an obstacle to increased wages for domestic workers. And Trump insisted the visa program was still needed.
“Well, I agree, but you do also have to bring in talent…” the president said. Ingraham shot back, “We have plenty of talented people here!”
“No, you don’t. No, you don’t. You don’t have, you don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn!” Trump replied. “You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say I’m going to put you into a factory where we’re going to make missiles.”
MAGA’s online backlash was swift and fierce. “I believe in the American people. I am one of you. I believe you are good, talented, creative, intelligent, hard working, and want to achieve. I am solidly against you being replaced by foreign labor, like with H1B,” renegade Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene raged in an X post. “I am America First and America Only. This is my way and there is no other way to be.”
Logan Hall, a digital strategist for far-right Blaze Media, raged, “I’m sorry but what the f–k is this? American talent split the atom and went to the moon. American talent built everything the modern world takes for granted now. Give me a break. This is insanity.”
