Donald Trump said America didn’t have talent and his entire Maga base did the world’s biggest double take
Say what you like about Donald Trump – please! – but you can always rely upon him to put America first, right?
Well, maybe. We say this after the American president’s latest interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News contained no shortage of eye-opening moments.
Not least when Trump said the US needed immigrant workers to fill high-skill roles because America simply didn’t have the talent. You listening, Maga?
TRUMP: You have to bring in talent
INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America
TRUMP: No you don’t. No.
INGRAHAM: We don’t have talented people here? pic.twitter.com/0GDVLwPsY6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 12, 2025
And Ingraham wasn’t the only person to be taken aback. Far from it. And that sound you can hear is Magas all over America doing the world’s biggest double take.
1.
Completely tone-deaf. This is an utter betrayal of the entire base who voted to put America First.
Indistinguishable from Vivek’s H1B crashout calling Americans lazy and untalented. We don’t have exceptional talent in America? Really? https://t.co/F3uARh0Vxt
— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminjlee) November 12, 2025
2.
Dude this is literally treason.
— (@GenZPatriotz) November 12, 2025
3.
We have been betrayed.
— Evan Kilgore (@EvanAKilgore) November 12, 2025
4.
Trump has done so much good for this country, but I must respectfully disagree with him here.
We CAN and we MUST train our own people and end the reliance on foreign cheap labor.
The H-1B visa must end and we must start putting American workers first again.
— Jesse Hughes ✝️ (@JesseHughesNC) November 12, 2025
5.
The Navy teaches teenagers how to run nuclear reactors in a few weeks. Get the fuck outta here.
— Theophilus (@theophilus_cmpr) November 12, 2025
6.
Imagine if a Democratic president said this … Republicans would NEVER stop talking about it https://t.co/x1vE5r4VsB
— Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) November 12, 2025
7.
Whoever is advising him on this needs to be fired yesterday. H1B is the last thing we need.
— Yukon Cornelius (@Project_Yukon) November 12, 2025
8.
Completely out of touch. Clearly has had no contact with the base in a long time. What are the people in his circle doing?pic.twitter.com/SIxKTmRJEl
— Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics) November 12, 2025