Vivek Ramaswamy quickly emerged as one of Donald Trump’s biggest allies during the 2024 election cycle.
But he just set a fire so fierce that Donald Trump is now trying to discover his true intentions.
Because Vivek Ramaswamy just delivered one nasty insult that put Donald Trump between a rock and a hard place.
Vivek Ramaswamy defends H1-B visa program
It is no secret that the American technology industry takes advantage of the H1-B visa program as a way to score cheap labor from workers in India and Communist China.
These big tech firms are able to pay half as much in wages to foreign workers as they would have to with American workers.
As a result, Americans who spent a lifetime learning and studying in order to become great engineers and computer scientists find it increasingly more difficult to get a decent job.
Elon Musk, as well as other supporters of Donald Trump from the tech universe, have argued that the H1-B visa program is a good system – commonly making the false claim that it brings the greatest minds in the world to the United States.
Vivek Ramaswamy, however, took the debate to a whole new level when he attacked Americans in general in a recent post on X.
He claimed that Americans were losers that are too soft, entitled, and lazy to study in STEM fields, choosing to focus on sports and media content instead.
“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” posted Vivek.
“A culture that venerates Cory from Boy Meets World, or Zach & Slater over Screech in Saved by the Bell, or Stefan over Steve Urkel in Family Matters, will not produce the best engineers,” he continued in his post.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 26, 2024
Immediately following Ramaswamy’s rant on X, conservatives began pushing back against the insult.
“The Woodstock generation managed to build out aerospace, the one before went to the moon, America was doing great,” responded avid Trump supporter Mike Cernovich. “Underlying your post is that we were all living in squalor until being rescued by H-1B’s.”
“Then why did everyone want to come here?” he cleverly fired back.
The Woodstock generation managed to build out aerospace, the one before went to the moon, America was doing great. Underlying your post is that we were all living in squalor until being rescued by H-1B’s. Then why did everyone want to come here?
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 26, 2024
“I’m sorry but nobody wants to live in an America defined by soulless utilitarianism where every facet of life is geared towards maximizing GDP and corporate profits over living a meaningful and fulfilling life. If you want the former, go to China,” added New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax. “Nobody voted to make the ‘Revenge of the Nerd’ schtick the new national psyche.”
I’m sorry but nobody wants to live in an America defined by soulless utilitarianism where every facet of life is geared towards maximizing GDP and corporate profits over living a meaningful and fulfilling life.
If you want the former go to China.
Nobody voted to make the… https://t.co/aW3iH61OyX
— Gavin Mario Wax 🇺🇸 🗽 (@GavinWax) December 26, 2024
Scott Jennings joined the overwhelming pushback to Ramaswamy’s comments on CNN when he slammed Vivek for sounding similar to a high school kid who was bullied in high school and arrogantly accredited American culture and work ethic for it.
“Look, I think there’s a way to solve this and talk about this that doesn’t denigrate all of American culture. I mean, I’m now understanding more and more how he got 100 votes in Iowa or whatever it was he got during the Iowa caucus,” Jennings fired back.
Jennings also pointed out the stark contrast of Musk’s comments with Vivek’s, noting that Musk clarified that he was only interested in the most elite of the elites and not just some easy access handout for massive companies to import cheap labor to America.
“The reality is, and Elon, by the way, clarified or further explained his position later and was talking about saying, I want to bring in the top 0.1% of engineering talent from around the world,” he clarified.
“It’s like bringing in a Jokic or a Wemby’s to help your whole team. If you want to make a comparison to the NBA,” he added.
Jennings argued that Ramaswamy far overshot the mark, stating that there could be an immigration system that carefully allows great minds to join the American workforce while protecting the interests of Americans.
“So I think, I think we can bring in the absolute top talent from around the world, and at the same time, not insult the rest of the United States of America and our culture and the way we do things here, and also lift up the American students who have the talent and who have the interest and put them in the right educational opportunities,” Jennings argued.
Vivek Ramaswamy was assigned to be co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency by Donald Trump.
And Jennings noted that his insulting comments about American workers posed a serious political issue for Donald Trump considering that many would take his thoughts to be speaking on behalf of Trump and the incoming White House administration.
“I think what [Ramaswamy] did today was to overtalk it,” Jennings continued.
“A lot of MAGA people are not happy. A lot of Republicans are not happy. And this is why Donald Trump is in the Oval Office,” he concluded.
