Trump Transition Team Orders Nominees to Stop Posting on Social Media

Over the last week, the MAGA world has been turned on its head over immigration, with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy expressing their support for the H-1B visa program.

While the transition team has stated this was not the reason, a lockdown on social media posts has been ordered.

Musk Stirs the Pot

Last week, Musk really stirred the pot over H-1B visas with a profanity-laced rant on X for people who did not see things the same way he did.

That only got worse after Ramaswamy chimed in, stating, “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.”

MAGA was livid, then heartbroken when Trump supported Musk and Ramaswamy, stating, “I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them. I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”

That is the complete opposite of what Trump had stated when he was in office prior, calling the program “very bad” and “unfair” for American workers. And he said this even though his business regularly used H-1B and H-2B visa programs to staff his businesses.

Musk Tries to Make Nice

After the outrage, Musk tried to temper his comments by saying that while he supported the program, it clearly needed to be fixed.

In response to a post on X that said the H-1B visa program was not the answer to stocking the United States with the best talent, Musk had posted, “Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically.

“I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform.”

Studies have shown that Musk is dead on regarding that point, as H-1B visa recipients make significantly lower salaries than American workers in the same position, and that would include the H-1B workers who are staffing Trump’s businesses.

Stop Posting

This situation was clearly running off the rails, so word came down from above that Trump nominees needed to stop posting anything related to possible policies of the incoming administration.

A memo was sent out by incoming Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, which stated, “While this instruction has been delivered previously, I am reiterating that no member of the incoming administration or Transition speaks for the United States or the President-elect himself."

The memo continued that nominees should “refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming White House counsel.”

This is going to be a problem for Trump, especially when the truth gets out about Trump’s use of these programs to staff his properties, which is something I plan on digging into myself.