HOT TOPICS | Trump Sides With Elon, AGAINST MAGA! - December 30th, 2024
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What's sparking the new MAGA 'civil war' over H‑1B visas?
Good morning, Lemonland, Lemon Nation, the Lemonheads. I'm so glad that you guys are here. So here we were just sitting back, minding our own business, when all of a sudden, a civil war breaks out among the MAGAs. It is crazy. We have a live broadcast that we're going to talk about now. We are live. So I'm so glad that you guys are here. So welcome to the Don Lemon Show. Welcome to our hot topics, as we call them. I hope you had a great weekend. I hope you managed to check out of the news for a while. I did for a little bit, but I mean, it was some juicy stuff. I had to do a couple of emergency posts on the TikTok and on the, you know. on the Twitter and not on the Twitter. I'm not on the Twitter anymore on the social media.
Okay. So, but if you did, I'm sure, look, you've missed out on a lot of stuff. The mega civil war that we discussed last week, it is expanded to even more characters. More folks are taking side on it from Steve Bannon to Fox and friends to Donald Trump himself, Elon Musk weighing in. There's like all kinds of, I don't, they're calling, they're calling each other names. I mean, they're calling it... Look, I want to introduce a fabulous co-pilot today. She's going to be with me the entire show, and that is author, political commentator, and host of SiriusXM's The Recy Colbert Show. Recy Colbert, welcome. How are you?
Hey, Don. How you doing?
I'm doing... How you doing? So listen, they've done everything. They haven't called themselves the N-word of MAGA yet. What would that be? I mean, they have been calling each other names.
Yeah, crackheads. Oh, I said crackheads. Y'all crackheads now? That's crazy.
Who said crackheads?
Well, okay, so allegedly, I gotta say allegedly, because you know these Republicans are litigious. Elon Musk allegedly has a burner account, an alternative ego, Adrian something or another, who was in this X space, you know, ranting about how ungrateful, yeah, how ungrateful these MAGA people are referring to them as effing crackheads. Yeah, saying that they should be grateful that he gave them a voice. So that's an escalation, you know? I mean...
He hasn't fessed up to the burner account yet, has he? But it certainly does sound like him. And that he uses a voice modulator or something.
A very poor disguise because it sounds like him to me. That's why I say allegedly. But I think he we know like wink wink. Now we know that that's. So yeah, I think those are fighting words. If you call a Black person a crackhead, we're throwing down. I'm not going to take that laying down. So I don't know how MAG is taking it, but it's getting intense.
All right, it's getting intense. Let's get people up to date real quick because I'm sure most of you know about this, but even the president-elect Donald Trump has finally spoken out, waiting on the Civil War, driving this wedge between the growing factions in MAGA and the MAGA movement, throwing his weight behind his new pal, political pal, really, is Elon Musk. So his inauguration is about 20 days away, a little more than that. And this White House, before it even gets started, looks to be in crisis. So this is all over these H-1B visas, okay? Which allows certain groups of folks to come in, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Right. And so they're not happy about it. It allows what? Highly specialized folks to come in. Is that what it is?
That's that's the claim that it allows for these exceptionally talented, highly skilled workers from overseas to come in and fill these jobs. This void that people like Vivek and Elon are alleging exists. This this intellectual void that Americans are not filling. That's what they're claiming it to be.
Okay. And so, but basically what they're saying is because it started when Donald Trump nominated or appointed this person, this Indian American, not like Native American, but from India to become the head of AI, right? To oversee AI in the country. And he is a proponent of H-1B visas and he is also Indian. And so folks got real racist on social media. Vivek had to weigh in Vivek, if we could just put up this tweet and then we're going to get to it, because I know some of you guys, most of you guys know we can put up this is Vivek weighed in and said, you know, this is basically calling Americans lazy.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What's sparking the new MAGA 'civil war' over H‑1B visas?
0:14–31:28
2
How did Elon Musk allegedly escalate tensions with burner accounts and insults?
31:28–42:21
3
Why did President‑elect Trump publicly side with Elon on visa policy?
42:21–57:01
4
What arguments are MAGA critics using to condemn H‑1B visas?
57:01–1:04:40