Donald Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US “golden visa” for $1m, and trailed a “platinum” version for $5m.

“A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,” Trump wrote on Wednesday on social media.

A “Trump Platinum Card” is also “coming soon”, according to the official website. This card will allow holders to spend up to 270 days in the US without being subject to US taxes on non-US income. It will cost $5m.

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    The Cartel Application Process.

    You can’t be poor and an immigrant but if you’re criminal and rich, bienvenidos a Estados Unidos.

  • So, basically, if you can spend $1M, you are “good people” who can enter.

    The US is trying its best to become a shithole, it was only missing more psychopaths and seems on the way to solve that problem.

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    You would think that the pig, fixated as he is with money, would know that gold is much more valuable than platinum? Pointing out the important things here, thank me please…

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      I had no idea. I mean plenty of subscription models (including credit cards) still rank platinum higher than gold. Apparently, the value of platinum was higher than gold only for a short amount of time, relatively speaking, from the 1980s to 2010s. Platinum has big industrial applications, but the consistency of gold’s value for alternate currency/holdings outweighed platinum’s volatility

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        I learned it the hard way when I wanted to trade a platinum memorial coin my grandparents gifted me as investment when I was born: guess what, my brother has the gold one :D

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    I’d pay a million to NOT have to visit this shit hole. Immigrate? You’re kidding me. It’s in the lower third of the bottom50 countries to never set a foot into.

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    I don’t think the memes will be as good as the blue check, but I imagine some outcomes will be about as problematic