The conflict centers on Musk and Ramaswamy’s recent praise for foreign tech workers, beginning soon after Indian immigrant Sriram Krishnan joined the team of Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks. It’s pitted Trump’s tech mogul donor class against his older network of far-right influencers like activist and Trump companion Laura Loomer while escalating into racist rhetoric against Indian Americans in particular.

Trump devotee Laura Loomer says she is paying a price for her criticisms of X owner Elon Musk. In recent days, Loomer and many other MAGA devotees have been criticizing Musk after he said that America needs to import more top-tier engineering talent from other countries because there simply aren't enough American-born engineers talented enough to