President Donald Trump on Thursday supplied a primary take a look at his $5 million “gold card,” a pathway to U.S. citizenship that he seems to be to promote to rich overseas nationals.
The president, whereas chatting with reporters aboard Air Drive One, confirmed off the gold card, which options his face, the Statue of Liberty and a bald eagle on it.
“For $5 million, this may very well be yours,” mentioned Trump as he waved the cardboard round in entrance of the press gaggle.
When requested who the “first purchaser” could be, he replied, “Me, I’m the primary.”
He added that he doesn’t know who the second purchaser could be earlier than estimating that the cardboard would come out “in about much less two weeks.”
Trump, in February, introduced that the gold card would provide patrons “inexperienced card privileges” together with a “path to citizenship” via their buy.
It marks an effort by Trump that will primarily substitute a program that at the moment provides rich buyers, in addition to their potential partner and any single youngsters underneath age 21, a way to acquire lawful everlasting U.S. residency.
“We don’t want Congress,” added Trump on the time. “It’s a path to citizenship. A really sturdy path, however we’re not doing the citizenship. For that, I’d need to get Congress.”
Trump famous that a million card gross sales might add as much as $5 trillion for the U.S. and urged he’s even open to Russian oligarchs acquiring a card.
Social media customers clowned Trump over his “past parody” reveal of the cardboard, with some noting that it arrived on the identical day that his newest spherical of tariffs induced shares to tank.
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