{"id":22935,"date":"2025-03-01T03:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22935"},"modified":"2025-03-01T03:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:52:46","slug":"donald-trump-calls-5000000-gold-card-a-bargain-and-is-certain-it-will-sell-like-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22935","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump calls $5,000,000 ‘gold card’ a ‘bargain’ and is certain it will ‘sell like crazy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As President Donald Trump cracks down on illegal immigrants residing in the US, he’s offering migrants with enough money the opportunity to fast-track US citizenship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Tuesday (February 25), the Republican revealed plans that to introduce a $5,000,000 ‘gold card’ visa that effectively would grant immigrants with deep enough pockets the chance to legally reside, and work, in America.<\/p>\n

The 78-year-old described it as working like a ‘green card privileges plus’ paper, and could be ready to launch within a fortnight.<\/p>\n

Now,\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0has touched on the topic again, this time to members during the inaugural meeting of his Cabinet, stating that he is certain he’ll be able to flog thousands of them.<\/p>\n

“I happen to think it’ll sell like crazy. It’s a market. But we’ll know very soon,” the president said.<\/p>\n

“If we sell a million, that’s $5 trillion dollars.<\/p>\n

“I think we will sell a lot because I think there’s really a thirst.”<\/p>\n

US<\/a>\u00a0Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick dubbed the option the ‘Trump gold card’ and slammed the current EB-5 visa as ‘full of nonsense and make-believe fraud.’<\/p>\n

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The EB-5 visa costs around $20,000, and stipulates overseas investors have to invest around a million dollars into a US\u00a0company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to end the EB-5 program and we’re going to replace it with the Trump gold card,” Trump told reporters in his Oval Office on Tuesday (February 26).<\/p>\n

Lutnick further revealed the ‘gold card’ will be reserved for ‘wonderful\u00a0world<\/a>-class global citizens’ and would go towards tackling the federal deficit.<\/p>\n

Talking with journalists, he also teased it would offer a unique ‘route to citizenship’ that has ‘never been done before,’ adding: “They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of\u00a0money<\/a>\u00a0and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it’s going to be extremely successful.”<\/p>\n

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Trump’s ‘gold card’ will mean Russian oligarchs could become US citizens (Chris Ratcliffe\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“You’re getting big taxpayers, big job producers, and we’ll be able to sell maybe a million of these cards, maybe more than that,” Trump continued. “It could be great, maybe it will be fantastic.”<\/p>\n

The president claimed the loop-hole doesn’t need Congress approval, either.<\/p>\n

“We don’t need Congress … It’s a path to citizenship, a very strong path to citizenship, but we’re not doing citizenship. For that I’d have to get Congress,” he said.<\/p>\n

It would also be open to foreign investors from around the world, meaning it would be open to\u00a0Russian<\/a>\u00a0businesspeople and oligarchs to apply for a gold card, providing they can cough up the $5 million fee.<\/p>\n

“I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people,” Trump continued. “They’re not quite as wealthy as they used to be.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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