'Don't be stupid': How Trump is losing his grip on MAGA
This week, Donald Trump told MAGA supporters they were dumb. The US president was speaking at the US-Saudi Investment Forum before an audience that included Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the world’s richest man Elon Musk and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang.
Last month, chipmaker Nvidia became the world’s first $US5 trillion ($7.75 trillion) company by market capitalisation. Like its Silicon Valley brethren, it relies heavily on bringing skilled foreign workers into the US. In the MAGA universe of “America first”, that’s a thorny issue. American jobs are for Americans.
But Trump knows better, and he made a point of it. If tech companies need to bring in foreigners to make chips and other advanced technologies, they should do so, he said – and the foreigners can teach Americans how to do it.
Those who railed against skilled migration were great patriots, Trump said, but they just didn’t understand the realities of the industry. “I’m sorry,” he said. “My poll numbers just went down – but with smart people, they’ve gone way up.
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