President Donald J. Trump appears to have uncharacteristically made a terrible political misstep in his recent interview by Laura Ingraham on FOX News—perhaps a politically fatal misstep, if not promptly checked by Trump himself. 

The issue? Trump’s statements in defense of the continued use of H1B work visas to import low-cost third-world labor, almost entirely from India, as well as hundreds of thousands of student visas for Chinese students enrolled at American universities. 

The American people who have supported Trump and the MAGA movement have largely done so from an “America-first” perspective—that the Democrats were intend on flooding America with tens of millions of third-world migrants with whom Americans are then compelled to compete for every scarce resource—employment, education, housing, healthcare, social services, everything necessary to life. 

Trump’s MAGA and America-first message stood in sharp contrast to the Democrat third-world platform and attracted millions of young adult Americans who are suffering most from an employment and housing market made artificially costly and competitive precisely because of mass third-world migration into the US, both legal and illegal. 

Trump’s statements in defense of large-scale third-world migration into the US stand in sharp contrast to the American-first vision sold to the American body politic, and the negative response from long-time Trump supporters has been intense and vitriolic. 

What’s REALLY going on?