Tech mogul Elon Musk may have become a close ally to President-elect Donald Trump, but he’s butting heads this week with some of Trump’s longtime MAGA supporters over immigration
“The immigration hot-button topic is the biggest DKE situation I’ve ever seen,” said Musk in a Thursday X post. He was apparently referring to the Dunning-Kruger effect, described by Psychology Today as “cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area.”
This online scuffle over immigration began when Trump named venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan, who is from India, as his adviser on artificial intelligence policy. His choice sparked anti-Indian backlash and criticism of Krishnan’s support of lifting caps on green cards, Axios reported.
During his first presidency, Trump had a strong stance on immigration. He enacted a travel ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and started up a project to build a wallalong the U.S.-Mexico border to deter illegal immigration. On the campaign trail for the …