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Elon Musk riles up Trump’s far-right base by praising immigrants
The inherent tensions of tech MAGA boil over.
The conflict centers on Musk and Ramaswamy’s recent praise for foreign tech workers, beginning soon after Indian immigrant Sriram Krishnan joined the team of Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks. Anti-immigrant rhetoric was a cornerstone of Trump’s pitch to voters; on top of promoting false, racist rumors about immigrants and promising mass deportations that could destabilize the American economy, he’s expected to revive an H-1B visa crackdown that he imposed during his first term. Ramaswamy chimed in with a theory that American pop culture like the ‘90s sitcom Family Matters “venerated mediocrity over excellence.” An X engineer escalated the situation by claiming that “america wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Indian excellence” in a series of posts Musk called “a little over the top.”
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