CNN pundits S.E. Cupp and Van Jones burst out laughing on the air Thursday after it emerged that only one individual has thus far been permitted for Donald Trump’s so-called “gold card” visa, the scheme letting foreigners reside and work within the U.S. for $1 million.
The commentators bought the giggles after “OutFront” anchor Erin Burnett performed footage highlighting the stark distinction between Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s admission throughout a listening to that just one visa had been permitted and his earlier boasts that greater than $1 billion value of the playing cards had been bought.
“Clearly, he bought one gold card for $1.3 billion,” Jones deadpanned. “That’s what occurred. Easy. He wouldn’t be mendacity to the American folks.”
“The client was [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” joked Burnett.
“Precisely,” Jones snarked. “I don’t know why anyone thinks that this man is perhaps a dishonest individual. He bought one gold card. It was $1.3 billion. Subsequent subject.”
Cupp stated that “beneath the silliness of this,” it made her suppose “about our standing on the earth” throughout Trump’s second time period.
“Do folks nonetheless need to come right here?” she requested. “Are we as beneficial as we predict we’re or as we as soon as have been? Which you could’t wave this magic ticket into the best nation on the earth and get numerous takers anymore? So it really made me a bit unhappy.”
Jones stated Cupp made “an excellent level.”
“Actually coming to America was once a golden ticket, actually a golden ticket,” he stated. Extra folks at the moment are leaving the nation than arriving, he added, saying, “That’s not the signal of a wholesome nation or a wholesome financial system or wholesome society.”
“That’s not good,” he added.