In a recent Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham, President Donald Trump stirred the pot by suggesting the U.S. simply doesnβt have enough βtalented peopleβ for certain jobs, arguing that foreign experts are sometimes a must.
The chat started with the usual H-1B visa talk. Ingraham warned that bringing in a flood of foreign workers could depress wages for Americans. βI 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 canβt flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers,β she said.
Trump, never one to shy from bold statements, shot back, βWell, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent when a country,β before giving an example from Georgia.
βNo, you donβt have certain talents and people have to learn,β he said. βYou canβt take people off an unemployment line and say, Iβm going to put you into a factory where weβre going to make missiles.β
Ingraham pressed, βWe donβt have talented people here?β Trump doubled down with a story from Georgia:
βLet me 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 is very complicated. Itβs not an easy thing and very dangerous. A lot of explosions, a lot of problems. They had like five or six hundred people, early stages, to make batteries and to teach people how to do it. Well, they wanted them to get out of the country, youβre going to need that, Laura.β
He was talking about a federal raid at a battery plant in Georgia that detained hundreds of foreign technicians, throwing the U.S. electric manufacturing plans into a bit of chaos.
Online reactions were immediate, with many Americans confused by the idea that some jobs are too hard for U.S. workers.
The notion that Americans are dumb, incapable of doing anything on their own, and need outsiders to guide them is sheer insanity.
— marlone (@parchmentragtop) November 12, 2025
Others went a bit further.
This is embarrassing pic.twitter.com/l4K4AOZE3T
— Aryan Diablo (@AryanDiablo2) November 12, 2025
H-1B is a giant scam where corporations pay cheaper wages to foreign workers.
My daughter graduated 14th in her class, got a full STEM scholarship to her University and has made straight Aβs. She majored in business and Computer Science and couldnβt even get an internshipβ¦
— Kelly McCarty (formerly NONBidenary) (@KellyLMcCarty) November 12, 2025
7 million men aged 25-54 are out of work.
It would be preferable to randomly pluck the clean ones up and drop them into mandatory training for these positions than it will ever be to continue with H-1Bs.
Americans are not stupid or incapable. They can learn these jobs fast.
— White Papers Policy Institute (@WhitePapersPol) November 12, 2025
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