Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer says Elon Musk is ‘silencing’ her

The MAGA world is fighting, and it’s getting ugly. As Donald Trump supporters raged against Elon Musk for arguing that Big Tech needs to bring in foreign workers, Musk’s X platform apparently removed Trump ally Laura Loomer’s blue tick and disabled her subscriptions.

Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will jointly lead President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have both infuriated conservatives in recent days by arguing that Silicon Valley companies rely on foreign labor because there There aren’t enough Americans to do the job. Musk wrote on X that there aren’t enough “super-motivated” and “super-talented engineers” in the US, while Ramaswamy argued that it’s because America’s culture values ​​”hard work over laziness.”

While Musk and Ramaswamy have routinely demonized migrants trying to cross the US border, they both appear to support the H-1B visa program, which companies use to bring in highly skilled foreign workers. Among both the left and the right, these visas are seen as allowing companies to import cheaper, exploitable workers who must keep their jobs if they want to stay in the country.

Loomer was far from the only conservative upset by Musk’s comments, and she furiously attacked him on the X with insults that rival Trump’s. “You bought into MAGA 5 minutes ago after Trump nearly got his head blown off at Butler,” Loomer wrote.

After Musk said legal immigration was needed to bring “the top ~0.1% of engineering talent,” Loomer noticed his electric car company Tesla has used H-1B visas to bring in some workers who make about $70,000 a year. “Nobody can afford to live on $70,000 a year in today’s America. Stop crying about declining birthrates when you want us to live like a bunch of welfare queens,” she wrote.

Looms separately called Musk “a Stage 5 clinger who overstayed his welcome at Mar a Lago in an effort to become Trump’s counterpart and be the point man for all his accomplices in big Tech to slide into Mar a Lago,” Loomer added.

Liberals who dislike Musk were surprised to find themselves siding with Loomer. “Okay, I agree with Laura Loomer & Ann Coulter. I’m just going to go lie down for a minute.” submitted an X user. (Coulter submitted Thursday: “American workers can leave a company. Imported H1B workers cannot.”)

Loomer wrote on Thursday where her account verification was removed, her subscriptions were disabled and she no longer has X Premium despite paying for it. X Premium is a way for users to monetize their accounts.

“My voice has been stifled and my reach as a journalist has been limited because I disagree with the owner of X about an original Trump policy,” Loomer says. Rolling Stone. “Either we have freedom of speech for all, or freedom of speech for none.”

Gavin Waxpresident of the New York Young Republican Club; Owen Shroyer by InfoWars; and Ryan Fournierpresident of Students for Trump, apparently lost their verification marks as well.

Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist, is a controversial figure in Trumpland. Her presence around Trump this fall generated negative headlines, especially when Loomer, a 9/11 sitter, accompanied Trump to a 9/11 memorial service. Trump called her a “free spirit” at a press conference, but Loomer soon stopped traveling with Trump.

Loomer was previously banned from Twitter in 2018, before Musk bought the platform and renamed it X, because she called the progressive rep. Ilhan Omar “anti-Jewish” and “pro sharia”. After that happened, she handcuffs himself to the front door of Twitter’s office building in New York City for several hours.

“I should be allowed to speak my mind without being restricted,” Loomer says Rolling Stone. “These are Trump’s policies and Big Tech can’t just silence every Trump supporter who speaks out about the conflicts over Big Tech infiltration of the Trump administration.”