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Trump, Ramaswamy, and Musk’s War on American Engineers: Too Stupid to Succeed?

Mike Scarpiello
The Parsnip
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2 min readDec 31, 2024

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“We said American first, not Americans first.”

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Former President Donald Trump, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have teamed up in their latest crusade against American engineers. These self-proclaimed champions of progress and innovation have decided that these hardworking professionals are too incompetent to work in the United States. The trio’s reasoning? It’s a combination of outsourcing “geniuses” from abroad, importing H1B visa holders to work for lower wages, and relocating their companies to various tax havens worldwide.

Earlier this week, Mr. Trump took to his favorite social media platform to declare that American engineers are “losers” who “couldn’t build a wall straight if their lives depended on it.” The former president then endorsed a plan by Mr. Ramaswamy to bring in engineers from countries like China and India to work on cutting-edge technology projects. When asked about the potential security risks associated with this proposal, Mr. Trump simply shrugged and said, “They’re not going to tell us their secrets anyway.”

Meanwhile, Mr. Musk has been busy tweeting about how American engineers are “lazy” and “overpaid,” comparing them unfavorably to his workforce at Tesla’s…

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Mike Scarpiello
Mike Scarpiello

Written by Mike Scarpiello

UX Designer, writer, musician, poet, political satirist, musician, bull runner, craft beer enthusiast, and UX Design mentor at https://shorturl.at/jRV2i

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