Americans Disgrace and Humiliate Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Statement, “What He Said Will Shock You”
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy received heavy backlash on Thursday after he suggested that Americans were not being hired because they were mediocre.
After Ramaswamy and billionaire Elon Musk came under fire from prominent Trump supporters on X, formerly Twitter, for supporting H-1B visas over the training and hiring of American workers, Ramaswamy defended his position in a post which accused the United States of suffering from a culture of “mediocrity.”
“The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture,” he claimed. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer).”
Ramaswamy’s post received backlash from social media users on both the left and right.
“There is nothing wrong with American workers or American culture. All you have to do is look at the border and see how many want what we have,” responded Nikki Haley, who previously clashed with Ramaswamy during the 2024 Republican primary. “We should be investing and prioritizing in Americans, not foreign workers.
Conservative radio host John Cardillo described Ramaswamy’s post as “one of the most offensive things I’ve read,” while The Blaze host Auron MacIntyre remarked, “Turns out the ‘waste’ that DOGE wanted to cut from America was Americans.”
The level of arrogance in this post is quite something…” weighed in Michael Flynn Jr., the son of former Trump adviser Michael Flynn, while Newsweek opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon called Ramaswamy’s argument “totally backward and utterly appalling.”
Several critics took issue with Ramaswamy’s assertion that “jocks” were the problem, pointing out that NASA’s space program included many workers who would meet the definition.
Meghan McCain, meanwhile, boasted, “Some of us have been telling you Vivek is a con artist since day one.”
President-elect Donald Trump appointed Ramaswamy and Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) last month, which will advise the Trump administration on how best “to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”
“It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time,” boasted Trump. “Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of ‘DOGE’ for a very long time.”
