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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took a swipe at President Donald Trump on Wednesday, throwing his own words from a recent Fox News interview that angered many in his MAGA base back at him.
During his sit-down with Laura Ingraham the night before, Ingraham pushed the president on the need to bring in high-skilled foreign workers. She charged that “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.”
“Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent, when a country–” Trump replied as Ingraham cut in, “Well, we have plenty of talented people here.”
“No, you don’t,” Trump pushed back as Ingraham protested, “We don’t have talented people here?”
“No, you don’t have certain talents and people have to learn,” Trump 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.”
Greene, who
I am solidly against you being replaced by foreign labor, like with H1Bs.I am solidly against allowing foreign students into our colleges and universities, like 600,000 Chinese students, just to financially prop them up. If they fail, they fail. The system in place isn’t helping our young people anyways.I am against foreign aid, foreign wars, and sending a single dollar to foreign countries.I am against bringing any foreign leader that is a terrorist or oversees killing innocent people into our country and into the Oval Office. They do not deserve our support.I am elected to represent my district and the American people, no other country, and I only serve Americans.I am America First and America Only.This is my way and there is no other way to be.
Trump sparked anger during the interview among his base by also doubling down on his plan to bring in 600,000 Chinese students to U.S. universities.