Trump — his latest scandal is turning his own base against him

As we reported this morning, Donald Trump is facing criticism following the release of more Epstein emails. Impressively, this isn’t the only scandal that he’s embroiled himself in over the past two days:

I don’t even recognize Trump anymore.

What is this crap?! So disappointing. https://t.co/CjV7YDfQoJ

— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) November 12, 2025

Trump and his H1-B

What is the H1-B visa, you may ask?

According to the US Department of Labor:

The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the US workforce by authorising the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorised to work in the United States.

A leftist criticism of the H1-B visa is that it’s used by companies to:

• Pay migrant workers less (in turn suppressing wages for the wider workforce).
• Get away with all sorts of labour abuses, because the H1-B employees are worried the government will revoke their conditional visas.

The MAGA critique will sometimes encompass the above, but also:

H1-B Scammers: Americans Are Losing Their Jobs To Indian Foreigners Who Have Cheated Their Way Through The Education System @HarrisonHSmith pic.twitter.com/hd4VeG7VGH

— INFOWARS (@infowars) November 12, 2025

You may be unaware of this if you have the good sense to not log in to social media, but anti-Indian racism has become increasingly normalised among Trump’s base, as YouTuber The Kavernacle documented:

In the video at the top, the conversation plays out as follows:

Laura Ingraham: Does that mean the H-1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration? Because if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.

Donald Trump: Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent.

Laura Ingraham: Well, we have plenty of talented people here.

Donald Trump: No, you don’t. No, you don’t.

Trump and his untalented supporters

“No, you don’t”, he says — you can see why this has gone down poorly with his allegedly untalented supporters.

The interview continued:

Laura Ingraham: We don’t have talented people here?

Donald Trump: No, you don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn. 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.

Laura Ingraham: How did we ever do it before? When you or I were growing up?

Donald Trump: I’ll give you an example. In Georgia… they raided, because they wanted illegal immigrants out. They had people from South Korea that made batteries all their lives. You know, making batteries are very complicated. It’s not an easy thing. They’re very dangerous. A lot of explosions, a lot of problems. They had like 500 or 600 people, early stages, to make batteries, and to teach people how to do it. Well, they wanted them to get out of the country. You’re going to need that, Laura. I mean, I know you and I disagree on this. You can’t just say a country’s coming in, going to invest $10 billion to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making missiles. It doesn’t work that way.

Trump is vague on who deported the South Koreans because it was him:

🚨BREAKING: South Korea is FURIOUS that Trump deported 450 Korean workers during an ICE raid of the Hyundai battery plant in GA.

The country invested over $1 TRILLION in U.S. factories – and now they’re questioning it all.

Trump is a f*cking idiot.

pic.twitter.com/27MxKdO5Rs

— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) September 9, 2025

This situation demonstrates the problem that Mr America First has created for himself. His donors like H1-B visas, because it gives them access to a cheap workforce; his voters just want to deport people.

This is why Trump is receiving responses like the following:

This really pisses me off.

Not only is he putting Americans last. He is insulting them in the same breath.

Fucked up. https://t.co/plSybVgDWf

— Adam Crigler (@AdamCrigler) November 12, 2025

Trump is on his “Fuck America Tour 2025”

Speed running the death of the Republican party https://t.co/pzYyhhuSFf

— Gmoneyinthebank (@Gmoneyinbank) November 12, 2025

50-year mortgages and infinity immigration! Exactly what America voted for. https://t.co/8y1kUqIXbC

— Jakob Dupuis🇺🇸 (@cilviastrat) November 12, 2025

America First

The problem with reactionary politics is that it’s always a reaction to the current moment, and as such it becomes more and more extreme over time.

We’ve witnessed a similar thing in the UK; the right used migrants as a punching bag for years, and now elements of the base don’t just want less migration; they want the complete expulsion of the non-white population (what they call ‘remigration’):

Remigration is simply a return to normality.

We never needed mass migration.

What we are advocating for is not radical. The current situation is radical.

We want our country back. We want England to be England. pic.twitter.com/m1soimnnmo

— Lucy White (@lucyjaynewhite1) November 9, 2025

Trump and his administration have often talked as if they might ethnically cleanse America, but the reality is these capitalist crooks want a cheap labour force first and foremost. The risk now is that a genuine ideologue fills the vacuum which will be left when Trump leaves politics.

Featured image via Heute