No, it is liberal policies like $15 minimum wage and high option health insurance that drive automation to eliminate workers.
But the automation does not destroy jobs. Instead it creates new higher paying jobs. People have to machine the parts to make the robots. Other people have to machine the parts that make the machines that make the machines that create the parts to make the robots. More people have to be trained to assemble and provide maintenance for those robotic machines. All of them higher paying jobs. So his argument is plain stupidity, because those would be Americans in those jobs. Jobs that wouldn’t be there without those changes taking place.