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They are not as wealthy as they used to be; I think they can afford $5 million,
There has to be other non-economic qualifications that just $5 million,
Trump's 'Gold Card' lets billionaires buy U.S. residency for $5M, while high-skilled Indians wait decades for Green Cards. Money talks, merit walks,
I'm just admiring it as I look at it. I'm getting teary-eyed -- but I don't want you to say, 'Trump broke down and started crying.'"
During the event, Trump also admired a map of the newly renamed Gulf of America, and said Trump was right about everything."
During the briefing, Trump was seen distributing pamphlets that read From the legal standpoint, it's totally legal to do,
I think they're Radical Left. I think they're third-rate reporters ... They don't treat us fairly,
A lot of people are going to want to be in this country, and they'll be able to work and provide jobs and build companies,
Somebody said, 'Can we call it the Trump gold card?' I said, 'If it helps, use the name Trump,
We’re going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million,
Mr Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people. It’s possible,
We’ll be able to sell maybe a million of these cards. We have it all worked out from a legal standpoint.”
It’s a road to citizenship for people, and essentially people of wealth or people of great talent, where people of wealth pay for those people of talent to get in, meaning companies will pay for people to get in and to have long, long term status in the country,
They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it’s going to be extremely successful,
Trump said in the Oval Office Many other countries, by the way, do this — including, of course, your 51st state does that,
If you sell 10 million of the cards, that’s a total of $50 trillion. We have $35 trillion in debt. That would be nice,
We don’t need Congress,
They'll have to go through vetting, of course. We'll make sure they're wonderful world-class global citizens,
Generally speaking, it will be people with money and people that create jobs,
The EB-5 program ... it was full of nonsense, make believe and fraud, and it was a way to get a green card that was low price. So the president said, rather than having this sort of ridiculous EB-5 program, we're going to end the EB-5 program. We're going to replace it with the Trump gold card,
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters on Tuesday
