Summary

Donald Trump faced backlash from his MAGA base after siding with Elon Musk’s defense of immigration visas, like H1Bs, used by businesses to hire foreign talent.

Many Trump supporters criticized this stance as contradictory to his “America First” promises, arguing H1Bs harm American workers by displacing them with cheaper labor.

Trump released his position through a conservative outlet, avoiding direct posts on the issue, but his Truth Social account was flooded with complaints from long-time supporters.

The controversy highlights growing divisions within the MAGA movement over immigration and corporate priorities.

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    6 days ago

    I so want to have hope that this time, finally, he’ll lose supporters.

    I want to.

    Unfortunately, we’ve been through this too many times with things that are far worse and somehow he never seems to lose them, not really, so…eh.

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      13 hours ago

      He’ll lose supporters only after he and his movement have been comprehensively, decisively defeated. Then they’ll all deny that they knew what they were supporting, or that the supported him at all. And two generations later, someone will run the same con again and a new generation of rubes will fall for it.

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          5 days ago

          I keep saying his inauguration is unconstitutional, but if nobody stops him, it’s allowed. I would not be so flippant about the chances of him remaining president beyond his 2 term limit.

          This is one of those things I really hope I’m wrong about, but I don’t have very much hope left.

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        5 days ago

        Yep. To quote Obama about something else, donvict didn’t build that. He just walked in and slapped his name on the place. Kind of like “his” buildings.

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      6 days ago

      Oh they are going to throw him away the next time someone steps in. It’s about owning the libs and how we don’t know what they need.

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          5 days ago

          I think they were asking for a spanking when “daddy comes home” per an earlier rally.

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            5 days ago

            Was that when Cuck Carlson was going on about his apparent kink? I think someone should have opened an investigation into him while we still have a justice system…

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              5 days ago

              Yeah, you could tell the Cuck was feeling a certain way when he said it. He enjoyed it too much.

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      5 days ago

      I mean, a whole lot of stupid men have being a qon all bound up in the idea of their masculinity, so…the alternative is, what, to emasculate themselves, hand over their nads to the sheocracy and vote for a woman?

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      5 days ago

      Well he did lose supporters. Unfortunately a bunch of lazy fucks sat out this election and let him win with less votes.

      • Laurel Raven
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        5 days ago

        Um… No, he got more votes than in either of his previous elections. Millions more.

        At least according to the records I’ve seen.