"These companies can go and buy a gold card and they can use it as a matter of recruitment ... we're gonna pay down a lot of debt" -- Trump on his $5 million "gold card" immigration idea
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So let me get this straight. A company could hire an American worker for $200K a year, but instead, they’ll drop $5 million on a “gold card” to bring in someone from another country and pay them $80K? At that rate, it’ll take 41 years just to break even.
I think it's an invitation to rich people who will buy entry to US for 5M, create companies and pay American workers 35K a year. Rich will get richer, poor will get poorer...
So American companies that have the resources to shell out 5 million for a Gold Card just to recruit a non-American to their company? How many companies does this apply to? A dozen?
There are other countries where you can "purchase" citizenship("Golden Visas" or citizenship by investment), BUT I have never heard their leaders go on record in such a disgusting manner promoting it. Trump is insane.
So, who are the types of people that would buy this Gold Card citizenship? Russian Oligarchs?, Drug Lords?, Crimminal Mobsters..anyone who could pay up, I guess.🤔 Just like a country club membership? So disgusting! 🤮
What company? Hard pressed to find any company willing to pay $5mm + salary to an employee. Even harder to imagine a significant enough sold to pay down the slightest amount of debt.
If he can sell citizenship for $5,000,000 then the next Democratic POTUS can sell citizenship for $5.
Watching Republicans scream and claim it is illegal will be a beautiful thing to watch.
I hear you.
But there a lot of people here afraid they are going to be sent back into a dangerous situation. They deserve to be here with the protection of citizenship even more than Putin's and Xi's oligarchs.
So yesterday he said it was for rich individuals
Today its for corporations? To do what? For 5M you get how many employees?
Recruiting who? For what?
I thought he was bringing jobs back to US workers
Are farmers paying 5M for citizenship for pickers?
Tech companies push out US citizens?
A million "gold cards" would only yield 5B. Hardly a dent in the budget when you decrease revenues elsewhere(taxes), let alone the administrative costs of a new program
You can get permanent residency through Immigrant Investor Program investing 800K, a.k.a. EB-5 program. Everyone who can afford a "gold card" already has residency and most likely citizenship.
I no longer can listen to him, it's not even worth hearing his lies and silly thoughts. He fails to execute and when he does execute, it's so crazy and left field you just gotta wait to see what it is anyway and then deal with it. This is so disruptive to daily life.
Selling visas to the US was not on my bingo card, but there is no base to this corruption. I almost feel sorry for the American people, but they need the country destroyed to learn. Trump has pressed fast-forward on that destruction.
How are they paying down debt by using taxpayer dollars to fund his extracurricular activities? The concept of “going without” is clearly incomprehensible to him.
Can’t help but feel like he’s setting us up to be a safe haven country for criminals. I mean who else could afford $5M for 1 high ticket item besides wealthy criminals like oligarchs & cartel. Wouldn’t have reason to leave your home country unless you needed protection.
Maybe if this "gold card" allowed you to renounce your US citizenship as long as Trump's in charge, but who the actual fuck is going to pay $5M – among the few people who can do so in the first place – for the "privilege" of living in a country rapidly going down the shitter?
"Pay off debt?" You'd need to sell 800,000 of them a year just to offset the latest budget. How many millionaires does he think are out in the world, just dying to get into the US, that aren't already there? If you have that kind of money and hadn't been let in previously, there was a reason.
He would have to get 200,000 ultra rich people to take him up on that offer to even pay off one year’s worth of interest on the national debt.
That means 1 in 5 green cards issued each year would need to be a “gold” card issued to someone willing to pay $5M. (They could probably get one for free.)
“And they’ll pay in Bitcoin on a big beautiful web - some people are calling it a dark one - run by my friend who ran The Silk Road that I just got out of prison.”
Actually one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever heard. Let's spend billions and billions on border security but let's go ahead and allow people to bribe their way in for $5 million dollars and who is going to buy these? criminals, drug cartels and just overall horrible people. Really?
This turd is completely talking out of his ass (and blaming Biden) throughout this entire shit show of a cabinet meeting. Will anyone bother to ask him where he's getting his numbers from?
Kind of. The eb-5. It requires the green card holder to invest or start a business with that money. Trump wants to ditch eb5 and replace it with the gold visa where the foreign national would purchase the visa outright.
This is how you know he's not very good at math - it's not scalable: 200 millionaires to each $1B, 200,000 millionaires to get to $1T. But the US debt is $36T, so even that is a drop in the bucket.
Mark my words, the next step will be to propose to felons to buy the deletion of the criminal records, and to delete their ‘felon’ status. We are in Gotham City.
How are they going to ensue Russia doesn’t bring in fentanyl into the country, I mean, more than they currently are. Russia gas never been a friend and never will be, don’t matter what the pumpkin head says.
They have Cambridge Analytica data so they know exactly who to unenroll, Elon Musk has an employee in Doge who literally wrote software to generate fake ballots.
The U.S. national debt stands at approximately $36.22 trillion.
(FISCALDATA.TREASURY.GOV)
Dividing this amount by $5 million yields approximately 7,244,000.
This means it would take about 7.24 million "gold cards" to pay off the current national debt.
$1 Trillion = 200,000 gold cards @ $5 Million. You think a lot of companies are going to want to invest $5 million in a person who is going to get radicalized by MAGA?
I don’t know about you, but if I went to those colleges I’d have a lot of student debt which won’t be forgiven that will take the rest of their lives to pay down and won’t be able to afford these gold cards
You are SELLING citizenship to anyone, literally anyone, who has enough money to do whatever illegal things they'd like to do once they get here. Wtf are you thinking?
I’m confused. I have read reports that say the $5M means an investment in businesses which would create jobs. This quote sounds like it is just a payment to the Treasury.
Trump....YOU went to Wharton. YOU are NOT the poster child of "smarts" you think you are. You are a moronic imbecile. STFU!! YOU don't get to personally pick who comes to this country...nor does your billionaire cronies!!! RESIGN TRUMP. RESIGN NOW.
Companies can already get visas for Tech workers, so why would they buy these cards. Rich foreigners will buy them directly, then come in and buy up American real estate so Americans can be their tenants.
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He loves them when they serve foreign oligarchs.
How did this genius bankrupted casinos!
P.S. not what it says on the Statue of Liberty.
Oh yeah we know where.
When are we going to manually update the obituaries
$5 million is approximately 0.000015% of the total US national debt.
As if. 🙄
And those same rich immigrants can buy a gold cards for citizenship and then use them as a means of recruitment??? Recruitment for what exactly?
WTAF.
How to people listen to this inane bullshit and believe it?
Watching Republicans scream and claim it is illegal will be a beautiful thing to watch.
But there a lot of people here afraid they are going to be sent back into a dangerous situation. They deserve to be here with the protection of citizenship even more than Putin's and Xi's oligarchs.
The 🍊 💩🤡 is obsessed with gold...remember the 🚽? 😆
Today its for corporations? To do what? For 5M you get how many employees?
Recruiting who? For what?
I thought he was bringing jobs back to US workers
Are farmers paying 5M for citizenship for pickers?
Tech companies push out US citizens?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/nauru-climate-citizenship-golden-passport
We truly elected the stupidest human on Earth.
That means 1 in 5 green cards issued each year would need to be a “gold” card issued to someone willing to pay $5M. (They could probably get one for free.)
a. No illegal immigration
b. Build the wall
c. Legal immigration wanted
d. Give me $5 million and you can do whatever you want
Saudis already illegally extradite their folks from the US who face serious crimes, and I can't see this helping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_wB34kWpdQ
I wonder what the anti-immigration MAGA voters think of Trump's plan to import 72.5 million foreigners to lord it over them?
That is 200,000 (two hundred thousand) People that would have to buy these "gold" cards to pay off just 1 Trillion in Debt
In his first administration he created $7.8 Trillion in Debt
Oh i forgot, this government LIKES terrorists now.
(FISCALDATA.TREASURY.GOV)
Dividing this amount by $5 million yields approximately 7,244,000.
This means it would take about 7.24 million "gold cards" to pay off the current national debt.
$1 Trillion = 200,000 gold cards @ $5 Million. You think a lot of companies are going to want to invest $5 million in a person who is going to get radicalized by MAGA?
What an idiot.
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