'Are you selling us out?': Trump's new comments met with immediate backlash from MAGA base
Donald Trump on Saturday was hit with outrage from his own base, after the president elect sided with billionaire Elon Musk over other MAGA personalities.
Laura Loomer is among those far-right influencers who have picked a fight with Musk over certain immigration visas, which he says are necessary for him and other executives to conduct their regular business. Other Trump supporters argued that big businesses should instead rely upon talented workers from the United States.
After days of infighting among MAGA and GOP personalities, Trump finally took a side on Saturday, agreeing with Musk's stance.
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Trump didn't post about the subject on social media, instead releasing a statement through a conservative outlet. But on Trump's other Truth Social posts, there's a flood of his own supporters complaining about his latest pro-immigration take.
Several of those comments appear on a simple photograph of Trump, which Trump himself posted without any comment round the time the statement was released.
Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of the National Pulse, said, "Denounce mass migration of H1Bs!"
A Truth Social user by the name of Joseph, who is known as @realconservitive and proudly boasts he has never voted for a Democrat, said, "#H1BVisa kills American jobs! PUT AMERICA FIRST AS PROMISED! Or MAGA will be destroyed!"
"Labor shortage in tech industry is a big lie. Don’t listen to F ing Elon!" the user added.
A user who claims to have voted for Trump, Aaronminus, also weighed in.
"Clarify your position on this now. Are you selling us out to Big Tech? Or are you America First? 'Buy American Hire American'? Remember?" the user wrote.
Another user who identifies as a "long time Trump supporter," jeighner, said, "I work in the tech industry and have seen the abuse of H1B."
"An MSP company I worked for merged with another. They kept everyone for about a year, and everything seemed good at first and promised people raises. That never happened," they wrote on Saturday. "Then they put everyone on worse insurance plans and stopped matching 401k. Finally, they started bringing in H1Bs and let all the long-term employees go after we trained our replacements. They were not better skilled."
Another Trump supporter, Andrew Graf, who has a photo of Trump hugging a flag for a profile photo, simply said, "Abolish H1B!!!!!!!!!!!!"