'Persona non grata': Ex-classmate mocks Trump adviser for getting himself quickly banished

A former Harvard classmate ridiculed one of Donald Trump's allies for getting himself banished from the newly elected president's orbit before Inauguration Day.

Vivek Ramaswamy is parting ways with the quasi-governmental Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to launch a campaign for Ohio governor, and former Harvard classmate Pablo Torre told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the venture capitalist had alienated the MAGA movement with a brash social media post.

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"One of the most fun stories of this political news cycle," said Torre, a sportswriter and podcast host. "Vivek's going back to Ohio, where he's from, to make the through line clear here, from Ohio to Ohio. It's funny, right, the thing that made him persona non grata in Trumpworld was what he tweeted over the holidays. He had this massive treatise on the H-1B visa and how we need to get immigrants from India and from China to compete, because American culture is essentially soft. We value, quote-unquote, the quarterback over the valedictorian, we praise the wrong characters on sitcoms. We didn't show enough respect to Urkel, literally a thing that he said, and what it revealed was, I think, a deep disdain for the base that Donald Trump had cultivated, and it revealed this fracturing for the first time in public. Really, the fracturing between the Silicon Valley, part of this strange coalition and the nativist base, and Vivek clearly, clearly is somebody who will give on culture to get what he actually wants, much like all of these Silicon Valley guys."

"But this take that he tweeted about was the thing he clearly felt most sincerely," Torre added. "He resents American culture in this way, he resents the base in this way, and for that crime, he is going to go run for governor in Ohio instead. He's going to be the first part of DOGE to be fired, this being the commission devoted to firing people."

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