MAGA meltdown as Elon Musk threatens ‘war like you’ve never seen’ with Republicans and vows to kick out ‘hateful, unrepentant racists’ from party
Elon Musk has threatened to ‘go to war’ with MAGA Republicans after defending visas for skilled foreigners.
The Tesla founder and billionaire, who was recruited by US President-elect Donald Trump to co-lead his new Department of Government Efficiency, has expressed support for the H-1B visa, which allows highly skilled immigrants to stay in the US for up to 5 years can work. up to six years.
His comments on the immigration visa came after pharma entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who will co-lead the DOGE with Musk, said this week that American culture was responsible for the need to hire foreign workers.
‘A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the Math Olympiad champion, or the jock over the valedictorian [the top student in a class]will not produce the best engineers,” he said on X.
Musk responded in a tweet that has since been deleted: ‘That about sums it up. This was an eye-opener’.
The billionaire’s comments have angered several Republicans who have an anti-immigration stance – which has been a key feature of Trump’s election campaign.
However, Musk has clapped back, promising in an X post to kick “hateful, unrepentant racists” out of the Republican Party.
He also tweeted that “the reason I am in America, along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong, is because of H1B.
Elon Musk has threatened to ‘go to war’ with MAGA Republicans after defending visas for skilled foreigners
Donald Trump has chosen Musk to head the new Department of Government Efficiency
‘Take a big step back and F*** yourself in the face. I will wage war over an issue you cannot possibly understand.”
In a separate tweet, he said: “America rose to greatness over the past 150 years because it was a meritocracy more than anywhere else in the world.
“I will fight to my last drop of blood to ensure that this land of freedom and opportunity remains.”
Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon responded to one of Musk’s tweets by saying, “Someone please notify Child Protective Services – we need to do a welfare check on this toddler.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said: “There is nothing wrong with American workers or American culture…
“All you have to do is look at the border and see how many people want what we have. We need to invest and prioritize Americans, not foreign workers.”
At least fourteen Republican X account holders have since claimed that their blue checkmark verification has been removed, meaning they no longer have access to monetizing their profiles.
President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk as he arrives to watch SpaceX’s mega-rocket Starship lift off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, November 19
Musk was born in South Africa and became an American citizen in 2002.
He has made it clear that he wants exceptions to MAGA’s anti-immigration policy for the top 0.1% of foreign engineering talent, because he says it is “essential for America to keep winning.”
America is made up mostly of Americans, he said, which he considers “renewed.”
The feud is the first in the coalition Trump assembled, which brought together Republican voters and the tech giant that helped fuel his second presidential victory.