
The past couple of days have exposed a fissure in Donald Trump’s coalition over H-1B visas, used by major tech firms and some major media congloms to lure highly skilled workers to employment in the United States.
“That pretty much sums it up,” Musk wrote on X on Thursday evening. “This was eye-opening.”
Musk was responding to a post in which an X user wrote, “So basically the right split into two factions, tech right and right right, and the tech right is like ‘hey we need h-1b visa people to do the jobs,’ and the right right was like ‘no you need to hire americans,’ and the tech right is like ‘but you guys are retarded,’ and the right right is like ‘well you don’t train us,’ and the tech right is like ‘you can’t outtrain being retarded,’ and while all this was going on we learned some people *really* don’t like Indians.”