The provocateur said the Republican Party needs to "have an honest conversation about Big Tech influence over MAGA."

As Loomer railed at Musk for backing legal immigration for skilled tech workers, his X platform took away Loomer’s blue-check verification badge

Laura Loomer and other MAGA faithful who are critical of Musk have lost their verification checkmarks.

Donald Trump’s “best buddy,” South African-born Elon Musk, has endorsed a post on X slamming Americans as “re***ded” workers who can’t hold a candle to skilled foreign hires in Silicon Valley. Musk was responding to a post — using a word widely considered a slur — explaining the difference between the “right right” (whom Trump claims to back) and the “tech right.

Elon Musk has further stoked the flames of the MAGA H1-B civil war after he agreed with a post that called Americans too “retarded” to exclusively fill the U.S. tech workforce. The eye-popping endorsement came after a pro-Musk account on X summed up the right-wing divide on visas to skilled workers as such: “So basically the right split into two factions,