Former CNN host Don Lemon scoffed at the Republican Party’s infighting over H-1B visas, a key program for attracting international talent, and called President-elect Trump’s supporters “stupid idiots.” “Fools.”
In a recent video on “The Don Lemon Show,” Lemon accused Trump supporters of sharing “stupid MAGA brains” and belonging to some kind of “cult.” He also joked that “MAGA-land” is in the midst of a civil war.
“Oh my god, I love this. Now you know, you stupid idiots. Now you just figured this out. You’re fucking stupid and you deserve it,” he said, adding that it showed “hypocrisy.”
“Yes, I am praising your stupidity and how you got caught. I am cracking up. I am giggling – I am,” he later said. “You got picked on because you’re in a fucking cult, and you don’t even realize it, you don’t understand it, because you have a stupid MAGA brain. How stupid and dumb are you?”
His comments come after key Trump allies, including tech billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, came under scrutiny from some within the Republican Party after expressing support for a special visa program.
President Trump also supported the H-1B visa in a phone interview with the New York Post last weekend.
“I’ve always liked visas, I’ve always favored visas, that’s why we have visas,” Trump said Saturday.
The debate, first led by far-right activist Laura Loomer on the social platform This is for skilled immigrants. Krishnan’s comments surfaced again after President Trump was appointed to the next administration.
Loomer falsely claimed that Krishnan sought to remove all caps on H-1B visas. He called for eliminating the national cap on green cards, a generic term for immigrant visas, but later apologized for sharing Federal Election Commission records containing his personal information.
Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon also jumped into the fray, calling the entire program a “scam” run by Silicon Valley oligarchs and inviting Rumer onto his “War Room” show to discuss the controversy.
Musk also faced censorship charges after several of X’s right-wing accounts, including Loomer’s, lost access to premium features, including verification and monetization, according to NBC News.
The debate sparked a rift on immigration between Trump’s allies, who have pledged to take sweeping action once he takes office, including launching a mass deportation program targeting people living in the country illegally, especially those with criminal records. revealed. The president-elect has strengthened these plans by leveraging several allies to play key roles on immigration.
Musk even suggested that we would “go to war” over this issue.
“I’m going to war over this issue like you don’t understand,” Musk, a former H-1B beneficiary, wrote in one of several posts on X.
