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Trump Drops Jaw-Dropping Insult to American Workers

The “America First” president also argued for letting foreign workers into the country and took issue with an ICE raid.

Donald Trump argued that there are no talented workers in the U.S. after being cornered by Fox News host Laura Ingraham over allowing high-skilled foreign workers into the country.

The president found himself in the odd position of not being the most MAGA voice in the room when Ingraham asked if H-1B visas “will not be a big priority” for the administration during his interview on The Ingraham Angle, which was taped at the White House Monday.

“If you want to raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with hundreds of thousands of foreign workers,” Ingraham, 62, claimed.

“Well, I agree, but we also do have to bring in talent,” replied the 79-year-old president, who has long promised to bring back American manufacturing jobs.

“We have plenty of talent,” the Fox host shot back.

“No you don’t, no you don’t,” Trump insisted, shaking his head with visible irritation.

Ingraham pressed on: “We don’t have talented people here?”

“No, you don’t have certain talents and people have to learn!” the “America First” president said. “You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, I’m going to put you into a factory where we’re going to make missiles.”

Trump then criticized the massive ICE raid that took place at a Hyundai Motor battery plant in Georgia in September, which resulted in the arrests of hundreds of foreign nationals, including 300 South Koreans.

“[The plant] had like five or six hundred people, early stages, to make batteries and to teach people how to do it,” he said ruefully. “Well, they wanted them to get our of the country—you’re going to need that, Laura. I know you and I disagree on this.”

After the raid, Trump privately offered the South Korean workers a chance to remain in the country to help train American staff, but they overwhelmingly rejected the deal, according to Reuters.

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Trump’s MAGA base has long pushed to end the H1-B visa program, saying it sidelines American workers and drives down wages.

In September, Trump controversially announced that the government would charge companies a $100,000 fee for each H-1B visa used to hire a foreign worker.

But he has stopped short of gutting the program, which draws significantly from India, Canada, and China, and is widely used by tech firms led by his billionaire allies in Silicon Valley.

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After Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick initially said the fee would be annual, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later clarified that it’s a one-time fee only applying to new applicants.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.

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