President Donald Trump has shrugged off MAGA fury and is standing by his decision to allow 600,000 Chinese student visas to be issued—calling it the “right thing to do.”
MAGA rose up in arms this week after Trump reversed course from his administration’s earlier hard-line stance on restricting foreign student visas.
Several of the president’s most loyal allies, including his former adviser Steve Bannon, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, activist Laura Loomer, and Fox News host Laura Ingraham, panned the surprise move as a betrayal of the “America First” agenda.
“I just don’t understand it for the life of me,” Ingraham said on The Ingraham Angle. “Those are 600,000 spots that American kids won’t get.”
But Trump argued that barring another country’s students from coming to the U.S. wo