MAGA’s upcoming times are not looking so good, especially not “great” as one would expect.
Internal divisions are appearing and they are threatening the MAGA’s coalition union as this new administration comes forth with its tough scheme.
There has been evidence of internal conflict between the important characters that constitute this coalition.
These disagreements are constituted by two highly important pillars in 2025 President Donald J. Trump’s agenda.
On one side stand the far-right nationalists and reactionaries who have backed Trump since his infamous escalator descent—figures like Stephen Miller, a key architect of his hardline immigration policies, and Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist and ex-Breitbart executive.
On the other side is the emerging “tech right,” led by Silicon Valley power players such as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen, as first reported by The Atlantic.
The newest federal administration has been out for less than a month and the party has already had difficulties keeping it together. These groups are fighting over their different interests on Trump’s immigration crackdown. Not everyone’s interests will be satisfied during Trump’s new term, The Atlantic additionally reported.
The current debate within MAGA is based on the contradictory perspectives of the participants. The high-tech executives who are a part of the coalition such as Musk who incidentally is South-African born and was once on a H-1B visa –intend to have highly skilled immigrants come into the U.S in order to develop the tech industry and achieve necessary improvement. However, this proposal gets in the way of MAGA’s hardline immigration policies.
In the course of his 2024 campaign for president, Trump turned the immigration matter into the most important issue for him to address, the president stated that the illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”, and additionally promised to carry out the largest deportation in U.S. history.
APNEWS reported that the debate took place when Laura Loomer, a far right-wing internet personality with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s calls for putting Indian-American venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy.
Additionally, Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to “enrich themselves.”
Furthermore, additional disputes are occurring in the administration.
Reuters reported that Musk was critical about a $500 billion artificial intelligence plan that Trump introduced at the White House earlier this week.
Trump’s announcement consisted of a project in which ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle will all take part in a partnership. This joint venture will result in Stargate AI, a company which Trump referred to as the “largest AI infrastructure project in history.”
The issue is clear: Musk’s rivalry with OpenAI’s executive officer, Sam Altman, is real. In fact there is an ongoing lawsuit between the two of them. X owner Musk made a post on the platform discrediting the group, expressing the difficulty of this project funding, doubting that they can put it together.
“They don’t actually have the money,” Musk said. “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.”
During Trump’s 2024 campaign, this group didn’t have any issue forming the MAGA coalition, working side by side for the benefit of their own interests. However, these interests now appear to collide and interfere with each other.
