Trump Says H-1B Workers Needed Because Americans Don’t Know How to Make Microchips

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President Donald Trump said Monday that H-1B migrant workers are essential for the U.S. because Americans currently lack the skills to produce microchips, a key industry he says is returning to the country after decades overseas.

Speaking to reporters following a Nov. 10 interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump emphasized that while the U.S. once led the world in chip manufacturing, much of the industry was lost to Taiwan due to poor policy decisions.

“For instance, if you’re going to be making chips — we don’t make chips too much here anymore, but we are going to be in a period of a year, we’re going to have a big portion of the chip market,” Trump said. “But we have to train our people how to make chips, because we didn’t get — we used to do it, and then foolishly, we lost that business to Taiwan, very, very foolishly… But it’s all coming back.”

Trump criticized the CHIPS Act, which he argued gave billions of dollars to foreign countries rather than bolstering domestic production. “Chip makers are all coming back, and I think within a very short period of time, we’re going to have maybe even the majority of the chip making in the world right in the United States, where it should have been all along,” he said.

Despite asserting that the industry is returning, Trump stressed the need for H-1B visa workers to fill the gap, saying Americans currently do not possess the required expertise. “But because we had people that didn’t believe in tariffs — if they believed in them, they didn’t know how to use them — we would have had nobody leaving our country right now, and instead, you have almost 100% of the chips made in Taiwan. It’s so disgraceful. The good news is it’s all coming back,” he added.

The president’s comments on H-1B visas have drawn criticism from some in his political base. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a rival for the 2024 Republican nomination, seized on the remarks to call for legislative action. “Republicans have a majority in Congress and could legislate elimination of H1B (and any programs designed to import cheap foreign labor). Deeds, not words, are what matter,” DeSantis wrote in a Nov. 13 response to a tweet criticizing Congress for not moving faster on H-1B reform.

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GOP Lawmaker Hits Back After Donald Trump Appears To Knock His Marriage

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By USA Today. Rep. Thomas Massie hit back at President Donald Trump this week, accusing the president of “trying to be a bully” after he appeared to criticize the Kentucky Republican’s recent marriage.

Trump on Friday, Nov. 14 shared a post on Truth Social asking if Massie got “married already,” saying “His wife will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!” Massie married Carolyn Moffa, a former congressional staffer for Sen. Rand Paul, last month. Massie’s late wife, Rhonda Massie, died in June 2024. They were married for over 30 years.

Massie and Trump have most recently been at odds because the Kentucky lawmaker and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, introduced legislation that would force the Justice Department to release a full version of the government’s files on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration has fought against the move. . .

But when asked about Trump’s comments during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Nov. 16, Massie joked that his wife said “we should have invited Donald Trump. He’s mad that he didn’t get an invitation.”

“We’re taking it with a grain of salt,” Massie said. “He’s being a bully, or trying to be a bully.” (Read more from “GOP Lawmaker Hits Back After Donald Trump Appears To Knock His Marriage” HERE)

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‘Full on crash out’ as Trump pal implies dissenting GOP lawmaker ‘killed his wife’: report

By Raw Story. MAGA influencer Laura Loomer is under fire Sunday after calling the death of Rhonda Massie – the wife of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – a “mystery” and “bizarre,” with one independent journalist alleging Loomer to be “implying Massie killed his wife.”

In a social media post Saturday, Loomer posed what she called a “serious question” regarding the passing of Massie’s wife.

“How did Massie’s wife die? Is there a police report? Is there an autopsy report?” Loomer wrote in a social media post on X. “Why is this such a mystery? I’d like to know. I find it to be bizarre and I always have. Now there’s a much younger woman in the picture.”

Massie’s wife died last year due to “respiratory complications of chronic autoimmune myopathy,” according to coroner Amy Cox, and Massie has since remarried. Loomer has frequently targeted Massie for his efforts to release files on Jeffrey Epstein in direct opposition to President Donald Trump, whom she remains a strong ally to.

Independent journalist and documentary filmmaker James Li, however, tore into Loomer for what he described as her having a “full on crash out.”

(Read more from “‘Full on crash out’ as Trump pal implies dissenting GOP lawmaker ‘killed his wife’: report” HERE)

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How Joe Rogan Stumbled Into Defending Christianity — And Exposed Atheist Nonsense

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Joe Rogan is undoubtedly the most popular podcaster in the world, hosting intriguing and expansive conversations about topics ranging from politics to sports — and everything in between. Rogan’s influence over the culture cannot be overstated.

That’s why his recent comments about Jesus, the Bible, and church are so notable.

Before this year, many had long assumed Rogan was a firm agnostic based on various on-air proclamations and statements. But 2025 seemed to signify what can only be described as a spiritual shift in the host’s life.

Specifically, Rogan’s recent statements about Christianity aren’t merely pointed and effective; they actively dismantle and challenge some of the most absurd atheist arguments against the Christian faith, with Rogan’s responses to Jesus, the Big Bang, and other related issues raising eyebrows. (Read more from “How Joe Rogan Stumbled Into Defending Christianity — And Exposed Atheist Nonsense” HERE)

Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Wants a ‘Real’ Investigation Into Prison Death, Not a ‘Cover-Up’

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Donald Trump’s decision to reverse course on Sunday night and urge House Republicans to vote to release the government’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein may have sent the media into a frenzy, but it didn’t move Mark Epstein.

“I really don’t care. I’m not interested in the files or anything,” Epstein, the late financier’s brother, told TheWrap on Monday. “My brother’s dead, so it doesn’t matter to me. What I’m concerned about is the fact that Jeffrey did not commit suicide.”

Mark Epstein has long maintained that his brother didn’t take his own life in a Manhattan jail in August 2019 while facing federal sex-trafficking charges. He expressed doubt Monday that unreleased government files will provide any fresh insight into his brother’s death.

“There’s a whole cover-up,” Epstein added. “The DOJ is covering this up. They never investigated this as if it might be anything other than a suicide.”

The Epstein saga came roaring back last week following the release of more than 20,000 emails, some suggesting Trump was aware of his former friend’s sex-trafficking of underage women, claims the president has strongly denied. The document dump came hours before the swearing-in of Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva, who provided the final signature to force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. (Read more from “Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Wants a ‘Real’ Investigation Into Prison Death, Not a ‘Cover-Up’” HERE)

Trump Reveals When ‘Moderate Income’ Americans Can Expect To Get $2K Tariff Checks

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President Trump vowed to issue tariff dividends sometime before the 2026 midterms during an Oval Office event touting his administration’s work bringing the FIFA World Cup to the US.

“We’re gonna be issuing dividends later on, somewhere prior to — the middle of next year, a little bit later than that,” he said, noting it would include “Thousands of dollars, for individuals of moderate income.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent previously revealed that the proposed $2,000 tariff dividend checks for American citizens would be awarded, but noted that the idea was only “in discussion.” . . .

The remittance would require approval from Congress, where even the president’s own Republican allies have expressed skepticism and encouraged Trump to focus on decreasing the federal budget deficit instead.

“It’ll never pass. We have a $37 trillion debt,” Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio told reporters in July, according to Business Insider. (Read more from “Trump Reveals When ‘Moderate Income’ Americans Can Expect To Get $2K Tariff Checks” HERE)

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In Search of Donald Trump

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I’m looking for Donald Trump. The one I voted for three times.

I knew he wasn’t perfect, and wouldn’t be anywhere near close to following the Constitution. No president is, even those we admire most, like Washington, Jefferson and Madison. We all have to “pick our poison” when we vote. I was pleasantly surprised by his first term. I defended him when they stole the election from him in 2020, and when they put him through lawfare for four years. The Democrats have proven that they are the party of death. Voting for Trump was a no brainer.

I have known that the Deep State existed since I read None Dare Call It Treason and None Dare Call It Conspiracy decades ago. I knew that the John Birch Society and Joseph McCarthy were demonized because they were too close to the truth. The Deep State is much, much more evil than most people realize.

Aside from murdering the Kennedys, they cleverly compromised the youngest one, Teddy, into being their obedient servant. They completely control Alaska, they stole the GOP nomination from Ron Paul. Trump knows all this by now, and the four years of horrendous suffering he has had to undergo, and the close calls with death, has made him a lot more truculent than before.

I don’t blame him for putting his enemies under the microscope, and the Republican congress must expose the Deep State and globalists while they possess a majority, for the sake of all Americans. Calling it “Partisanship!” rings hollow, considering what the Democrats were doing.

But Trump is selling out his own coalition with his war-making. The Left has discovered that the Zionist Lobby controls American politics, and it is the one thing that might unite them with the authentic patriots on the Right. The Left has already forfeited the Left-Right coalition that opposed Big Pharma, with their Covid hypocrisies, and they have completely sold their souls over forced vaxes. “My body, my choice” only applied to killing babies for them.

But many on the Right have their own blind spot. It is the Jerry Falwell/Scofield Bible crowd, that would pander to the Zionist Lobby, as if that alone would save America. That is about as Pharisaic as I can imagine: the idea that God is more interested in form, than He is in hearts.

Trump is a New Yorker and New Yorkers have always been pro-Zionism. He has yet to discover that those times are over. His denunciation of Marjorie Taylor Green, Thomas Massie, Tucker Carlson and Rand Paul demonstrates that he really does not understand basic limited government principles. He is throwing all that out for the sake of marrying us to the corrupt and murderous Israeli State.

And now we have Venezuela. It is as absurd a militaristic venture as we could conjure. They have been a communist government for a long time. We haven’t invaded Cuba, which is a lot closer and potentially more dangerous. The so-called “War on Drugs” is a shopworn, useless program, pretty much like LBJ’s “War on Poverty”.

Give it up, Donald. We voted for you to keep us OUT of wars, and all of yours have been, of course, undeclared. You’ve got bi-partisan company: Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I & II, Clinton, Obama and Biden. Venezuela’s contribution to America’s drug problem is nothing compared to Mexico, and they are a lot closer. But that would be a very costly and impossible war to wage, and you wouldn’t get the votes in Congress. We were unjust in invading Mexico in 1846. Maybe not in 1916, but that went nowhere into a wild goose chase.

Venezuela is a softer target, but the War on Drugs cannot be won by military action.

No, it must be done by dealing with the problem that creates the market for drugs, meaning our own feckless and indifferent citizenry. It crosses all economic and racial classes. Marijuana, cocaine, opioids, heroin, all damage our health, our heads and our spirits.

The problem of fatherless families, drugs, sex and self-gratification will never be cured by government. Blasting drug boats and napalm-bombing poppy plantations won’t end it. It will be ended when the market dries up. And even benign government actions, like anti-drug and STD posters and leaflets, school curriculums and programs, will do nothing but make people feel good, without solving the problem. It cannot change those “Hearts and Minds of the people.”

No, that belongs to religion. And all religions tell us that 1) there is a supernatural world, 2) we are all going to die, 3) there is a Natural Law, 4) we will be called to account, 5) there is hope for every individual.

Once the government supported religions with stamps that said, “Pray for Peace”, commercials that said, “The Family that prays together, stays together,” and “Worship together this week”. Presidents called for a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, something that the people of Nineveh discovered actually works. That is about all it can do. Hand off the ball and let religion run with it.

There is an incredible thing about repentance. Individuals can begin it any time, and it works. But for a whole society to repent, it needs a leader, and a humble one. I did not expect Trump to be humble. But if he repented, it would set the table for us all, just as his denunciation of abortion, transgender surgeries and defense of women’s sports has already done, and world wide.

It would show that the best thing government can do is to turn some things over to God.

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Ford CEO Laments He Can’t Fill 5,000 Mechanic Jobs Paying $120K Per Year: ‘We Are in Trouble in Our Country’

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Ford has been unable to fill some 5,000 openings for mechanics despite offering a salary of $120,000 a year — prompting the company’s chief executive to warn of a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople in the US.

“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said on an episode of the “Office Hours: Business Edition” podcast published earlier this week.

“We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.” . . .

The $120,000 pay is nearly twice the average annual American salary, according to the Social Security Administration.

It takes about five years to learn the skills needed to pull a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck — and the country isn’t training enough people to do it, Farley said. (Read more from “Ford CEO Laments He Can’t Fill 5,000 Mechanic Jobs Paying $120K Per Year: ‘We Are in Trouble in Our Country’” HERE)

Charlie Kirk’s Security Chief Claims He Was Hamstrung On Day Of Assassination

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The owner of the company providing security for Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk on the day of his assassination said in an interview posted Monday that he was hamstrung by federal and state laws while trying to secure the event where Kirk was assassinated.

Kirk was gunned down during a Sept. 10 TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University, during which he was debating attendees. Brian Harpole of Integrity Security Solutions told podcaster Shawn Ryan during Monday’s episode of “The Shawn Ryan Show” he had acquired certificates to pilot drones, but was unable to use them due to federal and state regulations.

“I spent thousands of dollars on drones last year and got my guys licenses,” Harpole said. “But if the area lies in the Provo, Utah, airspace, I can’t fly. It’s a 107B, we can’t break the rules.”

Title 14, Chapter I, Subchapter F, Part 107, Subpart B has restrictions on operating drones, including a prohibition on flying them over people who do not have shelter should the drone crash. Utah state laws require compliance with the federal regulations, according to UAVCoach.com.

“And then you had secondary restrictions, probably due to heavy foot traffic with the school,” Harpole added. “But I can’t go in and break the rules. There’s laws for a reason. And so, now the school could have flown drones, the PD, but they didn’t have them. But Orem PD has a drone unit, active, professional and that police department, I will tell you, is awesome. They were there, they helped, both on the soft side and the hard side.” (Read more from “Charlie Kirk’s Security Chief Claims He Was Hamstrung On Day Of Assassination” HERE)

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Illegal Alien Terrorist Fugitive Found Driving Big Rig in Kansas After Biden Administration Gave Him Work Permit

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien, wanted in his native Uzbekistan on terrorism charges, found driving a semi-truck in Kansas after he had been given a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) in Pennsylvania. The Biden administration, ICE officials reveal, awarded the illegal alien a work permit in 2024.

On November 9, ICE agents arrested 31-year-old illegal alien Akhror Bozorov of Uzbekistan while he was working as a commercial truck driver.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation had issued Bozorov a CDL to drive a semi-truck after he was approved for a work permit by the Biden administration in January of last year.

Bozorov, who crossed the southern border in February 2023 and was released into the United States interior by the Biden administration, has had a warrant for his arrest in Uzbekistan since 2022.

According to Uzbek law enforcement officials, Bozorov is a member of a terrorist organization and has allegedly distributed terrorist propaganda — including calling for jihad and urging others to join the jihad movement. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Terrorist Fugitive Found Driving Big Rig in Kansas After Biden Administration Gave Him Work Permit” HERE)

Report: Man Who Attempted to Kill Trump Had Furry Obsession, Online ‘They/Them’ Profile

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New reporting reveals disturbing details about Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. The allegations raise serious questions about Crooks’ ideological shift, online life, and possible intelligence or security failures around his rise.

According to a New York Post investigation, Crooks once expressed pro-Trump views but dramatically flipped his ideology in 2020, becoming virulently anti-Trump. Over a span of months, he channeled extremist language, praised mass violence, and floated terror-style tactics — including bombs and assassination — against political figures.

One chilling online post read:

“IMO the only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks … sneak a bomb … track down any important people/politicians/military leaders … try to assassinate them.”

According to the Post’s source, Crooks was not a “lone actor” with no footprint — his online presence left a “digital trail” across multiple platforms: YouTube, Discord, Snapchat, Quora, and more. That trail reportedly includes extremist ideology, admiration for violence, and threats.

Adding a strange layer to the story, investigators trace Crooks’ online activity to two DeviantArt accounts, “epicmicrowave” and “theepicmicrowave,” where he used “they/them” pronouns. DeviantArt is a major hub for “furries” — people interested in anthropomorphized animal characters. According to the report, at least some of his artwork and commentary leaned sexual, featuring muscular male bodies and female heads.

Some commentators see parallels with Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was also reportedly involved in furry-related porn and subculture.

What’s fueling even more concern: why Crooks slipped under the radar. A former senior FBI agent, Rod Swanson, said Crooks may have already caught the bureau’s attention.

“If they investigated that kid there’s a record of it … but some leader made that this was not a threat … or they ‘did something else,’” Swanson told the Post.

Swanson’s remark hints that Crooks’ online extremism might not have been entirely secret — or that agencies misjudged its seriousness.