‘Should MAGA stay at home in 2026?’ Laura Loomer wages racist war against ‘tech bros’ over Indian migrants

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Trump acolyte and self-proclaimed “proud islamophobe” Laura Loomer is threatening to tell MAGA to “stay home” during the next midterm election amid an escalating feud with “tech bros” Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over Silicon Valley’s reliance on foreign-born workers.

Loomer has engaged in a multi-day tirade on social media over President-elect Donald Trump’s recent appointment of Indian-American entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as a senior policy adviser on AI, prompting the loyal MAGA supporter to rage over Krishnan’s support for H-1B visas for Indian immigrants.

As the Trump administration promises an immediate crackdown on immigration, Loomer has launched a series of attacks on Native Americans described as “racist” after Krishnan’s appointment, which she called “deeply disturbing.” Loomer described workers from India as “Third World invaders” and also took issue with Musk and Ramaswamy defending the tech industry that imports “super talented engineers” from abroad.

“Average IQ in India is 76,” Loomer tweeted at one point, along with several other posts disparaging Indians and their homeland.

Loomer, who earlier triggered a backlash to make sweeping remarks about Kamala Harris’s Indian heritage, has foundsupportamong what some have described as “AND STOMACH” in her civil war against Trump-supporting tech entrepreneurs. In particular, she has got some support from “groypers,” the followers of the infamous white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

Meanwhile, Loomer has directed much of his anger directly at Musk, labeling him a “stage 5 clinger” and questioning whether the DOGE government efficiency advisory committee, which he co-chairs with Ramaswamy, would “cut spending” or just redirect funds “for the pet projects of tech billionaires.”

For his part, Musk has dismissed Loomer as a “troll” who should be ignored. In response, Loomer has suggested that X (formerly Twitter) owner and “first mate” would soon find themselves on the outs with Trump.

While Loomer has been raving about Krishnan’s appointment all week, the criticism from her and other MAGA activists ramped up after his earlier suggestion that Musk look at removing caps on green cards for skilled immigrants resurfaced online. According to Loomer, Krishnan and other tech entrepreneurs want foreign students to “come to the United States and take jobs that should be given to American STEM students.”

After an Indian immigrant called her opposition to high-skilled immigration “fundamentally anti-American,” Loomer’s commentary became more bigoted and offensive.

“Our country was actually built by white Europeans. Not third world invaders from India,” she tweeted Christmas Eve. “You know it was white Europeans who created the American dream and we didn’t create it to be exploited by professional open border technocrats like you. PS: why do people in India still mess with the water they bathe and drink in? “

David Sacks, the incoming AI and crypto czar, pushed back on Loomer’s complaints that Krishnan and other Trump-backed Silicon Valley executives were “career leftists,” adding that “supporting a limited number of highly skilled immigrants still is a widely held view on the right.” Loomer reacted by falsely accusing Krishnan of donating to Harris’s campaign. (It was another person with the same name.)

While Ramaswamy cited 1990s sitcoms as a key reason why there aren’t enough qualified American-born engineers, and argued that it was why the tech industry needed more workers from India, Musk sounded that “the number of people, there are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the US is way too low.”

Responding to a right-wing activist who said it was “wild” that MAGA “turned on” him and DOGE, Musk listed: “Loomer trolls for attention. Ignore.”

While simultaneously firing about Musk, Loomer was also upset that Krishnan appeared to have a friendly relationship with Democratic congressman Ro Khanna.

“Should MAGA stay home in 2026? I want @TeamTrump to tell us who is a priority,” she submitted. “The MAGA base or an anti-Trump Democratic congressman who gets donations from tech bros and voted to impeach Trump? I just want to know what to tell the voters in 2026 when they ask me if they must vote.”

As for the world’s richest man, Loomer accused Musk of being “compromised” by the Chinese government and that Trump needs to push him out of his inner circle.

“The elephant in the room is that @elonmusk, who is not MAGA and never has been, is a total f*cking move on the Trump transition,” Loomer tweeted on Thursday. “He’s a 5th stage who made himself welcome at Mar a Lago in an attempt to become Trump’s sidekick and be the point man for all his accomplices in big Tech to slip into Mar a Lago.”