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[–] [email protected] 194 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

“Who is the first buyer?” one of the reporters asked.

“Me,” Trump quipped. 

“The second?” the reporter pushed on. 

“I don’t know, but I’m the first buyer. It’ll be out in ... less than two weeks. Pretty exciting, right?” the president asked.

First of all, why would he be the first buyer of an express residency card when he’s already a citizen? Fucking moron.

Second, “it’s happening in two weeks” is Trumpspeak for “it’s literally never going to happen.”

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Yep, this is a distraction from the stock market melt down.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As is his proclamation that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and then goes on to ONLY talk about trans kids.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't give him so much credit. Everything he does is credited as an intentional distraction from whatever it is that he just did.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it's pretty tiresome. "This is a distraction!!!!" No, literally everything he does is a horrible mess and he just keeps doing more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

That would also mean that he had planned everything in detail to fit together. That's beyond his capacities. The recession was obviously unplanned; he's already struggling to keep the whole thing under control. The complexity of human society is overwhelming him.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Residual salesman brain.

Trump: I am awesome, I bought this thing, it is awesome, you will be awesome if you buy it too.

It bears no relationship to ... making any kind of sense, because it is literally a hustle, a psychological manipulation tactic.

He is just saying salesman words, meant to encourage buy in.

Has no relation to reality, the truth, making sense, etc.

... But, it works on rubes, dullard marks, cult members, weak willed / low self esteem people with decent reliability.

These are just more Trump University or Trump Steaks to him.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When you're a Russian asset, you sometimes forget to fake being a citizen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

He's not faking being a citizen. He's faking being self-aware. He barely has a clue wtf he's talking about at any given time. That's all.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would the president of the United States even need to or care about buying his own residency card?

In case he accidentally revokes it, because he’s a senile fucking moron.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

He could wake up tomorrow in a Venezuelan prison form 'accidently' being deported, since he made it so that's a thing now

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Has anyone seen his birth certificate‽

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So law and order is just bullshit now right? You buy a gold fucking stupid ass card with dear leader’s picture on it and you get to skip the line? Where is that money going by the way, to Trump or a public fund?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

You buy a gold fucking stupid ass card with dear leader’s picture on it and you get to skip the line?

There have been similar (non-literal) golden visas offered all over the world, mainly by poorer EU countries or the various third-tier states that make most of their foreign exchange through money-laundering.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Country for sale! Buy now!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And it's a going out of business fire sale.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Why not let Americans sell their citizenship for $5m instead.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's some capitalism I can get behind! Free the citizenship market!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there his ass on the back side of the card?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 weeks ago

no, it's on the front

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

It has his face on it, so it already has an ass on it.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think people with 5mil could probably get in a lot cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

And 5 million today is only half a million in purchasing power two generations ago. And even less three generations ago.

So basically we are talking about middle class as it used to be defined. Problem in the USA is, very few people now have this money; so quite rightly it seems out of reach for many

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is our actual present reality, people. Resist the urge to look away, it will still be there.

Holy fuck.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He'll be a scammer till the day he dies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

like father like son, and his grandfather.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah yes, pay $5m to live where other people get deported despite their legal status. Only a fucking moron will get one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

You're just mad trump discovered an infinite money glitch for government revenues. Sell someone a visa for $5 mil, kick them out for no reason because you can, make them pay another $5 mil to come back, rinse and repeat.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk why dems don't discredit this as "Desperately importing wealthy foreign elites".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It doesn't work.

The right would celebrate that it was 'triggering teh libs'.

You can't beat someone who is only playing to get a rise out of you.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

The dementia gets more and more apparent

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“sale of 1,000 Gold Cards this week, raising $5 billion in a single day.”

Good for you, even if the number is true (it is not) and these keep selling (they won't), we just need a year and a half to make back the 2.5 trillion stock market lost overnight; and 6 whole years to make back 11 trillion lost since he took the office.

BTW, I cannot it has only been less than 3 month. Feels like years have passed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

This is another grift to add to his portfolio of products. For example Trump Steak, Trump Phone, Trump University, Trump Coin, Trump shoes and so on. He never puts his name or face on something unless he knows he has a way to make a ton of money off it by screwing someone over and get away with it. He also doesn't have to borrow money from banks anymore because the United States assumes the risk.

Remember that billionaires never spend their own money. Trump always drops a chaff grenade for the media when he is getting ready to do something really stupid using the public's money. This is one of those moments. So the question is not, "Who is going to buy this?" the question is "What is he about to grift next using tax dollars?"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this point, you'd have to be badly mentally challenged if you're willing to pay to live in U.S

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

If they are really rich, the US is an amazing place to live and 5m is nothing to them. If one has to save up for that card, it's a shitty deal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like monopoly money.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who keeps the $5m per wealthy immigrant? If it's Trump himself, isn't that very very illegal?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The guy sold beans from the oval office, he's selling tesslers and golden shoes. This isn't even close to the weirdest thing he did.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Why would anyone with that much money want to come here permanently, and get the IRS all up in their business? The US is the only large country that taxes its citizens on their worldwide income (edit: regardless of residency status)

Yes, I know Republicans are always interested in reducing taxes on the rich, but right now these hypothetical rich people who want to come here have zero tax liability. All that $5m does is subject them to intrusive questions about where they are making their money every year when they file taxes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Good news for rich people, this article says they won't be taxed like a citizen

Unlike American citizens, gold card holders will not have to pay taxes to the U.S. government on their overseas income.

Their source is CNBC

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Shit, that is a good deal, then. And probably exceeds Trump's authority in what the can offer, but when has that stopped him before?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

That probably explains why he wants to buy one despite being a citizen already. I'd guess he thinks it'll mean he wont be taxed on overseas income either. Figuring out whether he's currently paying any, and if so how much is left as an exercise for the interested reader.

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