‘This is Going to Be a Big Problemo’: Comedian Tim Dillon Roasts Vivek Ramaswamy For Trashing Americans
Comedian Tim Dillon roasted Vivek Ramaswamy on his show over comments the tech entrepreneur made last week about American culture that fueled a MAGA rift over immigration and foreign worker visas.
Last week, Trump allies Ramaswamy and Elon Musk both came out strongly in favor of H-1B visas for skilled jobs, sparking a backlash from immigration hardliners in the MAGA camp including Steve Bannon.
Bannon went off on Musk numerous times on his show and categorized work visa programs as expressions of “contempt” for Americans.
In a post to X that kicked off all the drama, Ramaswamy criticized American culture for – as he put it – producing mediocrity. Ramaswamy said America had “venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long” and the issue started with American youth. Ramaswamy added:
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
On his show, Dillon read from Ramaswamy’s tweet and unloaded on him. “How about more white people?” he said. “Less Indians? How about that? How about more white people?”
Dillon disagreed with Ramaswamy’s argument that foreign cultures are superior to America’s — joking that his point was not racist, but that he was merely aligned with pundits like Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter on the issue.
Dillon continued:
Indians didn’t come to this country – no offense, but if we’re going to critique the country, how about more people that actually came to the country and fought in [our wars]? Were there a lot of Indians who fought in the Civil War? I’m confused. I just don’t know. It sounds like a racist point, but it’s actually not. It’s been made by people like Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter. And if they’re racist then I’m racist. No one’s racist no more!
But this is my point. I understand what he’s saying. I wasn’t a fan of Friends. I like Frazier. I understand we need more math competitions and shit like that. But this is the type of shit that is going to eat [the MAGA movement] from the inside. He’s basically going out there and saying, by the way, we need to import people because no one in this country is up to the task.
Dillon concluded, “This is going to be a big problemo, by the way, for them. It is because these people don’t give a shit about America. They just don’t know. No offense.”
Watch above via The Tim Dillon Show.
