BTW, Dems may have caved, but Trump is not doing well

MAGA influencers are in a rage over President Trump’s appearance on Fox News, in which he told host Laura Ingraham that the country needs skilled foreign workers. The surprisingly antagonistic dustup came after Ingraham challenged Trump’s support for visas for skilled workers, declaring that they “flood the country” with “hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.”

  New Republic

The snarling Leopards who eat people's faces are closing in.

“I agree,” Trump said, before delivering the coup de grâce: “But you also do need to bring in talent.” When Ingraham claimed we have “talented people here,” Trump replied: “No, you don’t,” which appeared to mean that—sit down for this one—foreign workers actually can play a complementary and productive role in the U.S. economy. Ingraham was visibly irked when Trump argued that trained U.S. workers are not always available as needed, creating a need for foreign workers. After all, this is true MAGA heresy.

His corporate donors are demanding skilled workers be let back in.  Or he's just wanting to hire that cheap labor at Mar-A-Lago.

But we should also see it as something else: an expression of Trump’s growing political weakness on the broader immigration issue. It also hints at a deeper schism in MAGA that Democrats should get serious about exploiting.

Democrats are incapable of getting serious about exploiting anything.

As G. Elliott Morris shows, the idea that Trumpism pulled off a grand realignment among the nonwhite working class is now in ruins. A big part of that realignment, you will recall, was supposedly driven by Trump’s dominance on immigration and Democrats’ clueless refusal to adapt to it. That idea is now in pretty rough shape too.

UPDATE 11/14/2025:  The excuse.