For Christmas, maybe you unwrapped gifts, baked cookies or hung out with family. Elon Musk spent his holiday week as he usually does: posting again and again on X. But this time it was burning some of the goodwill he’d won with America’s anti-immigrant right.

The world’s wealthiest tycoon wants more visas for engineering talent, but conservatives including RFK Jr.’s vice presidential pick are savaging the H-1B program as predatory.

Tech Right feud that kicked off over Christmas, spurred by a divide on allowing skilled immigrant workers to come stateside, was escalated by Elon Musk on Thursday. Trump’s “first buddy” declared far-right characters including former Trump orbiter Laura Loomer to be trolls and allegedly removed their verification status on Twitter.