People of the United States of America… I think the time to act has come. Your king is selling off your country and all the values that come with it! If you don’t start taking action NOW, things will look really bad for the USA!! (Not that it doesn’t already do that…)
No_responsiveMirakai on
So, they WANT people to have citizenship but only if they’re a billionaire. Sure, because everyone just casually has 15000 in cash lying around that they can use to… buy something that millions of people are literally working their butts off for.
nicktehbubble on
There really is a class of wealthy I truly have no idea about.
A market for those that wish to pay 5million dollars to spend the best part of a year living tax free in a foreign country
TheAsianTroll on
Take this how you will… anyone who hates immigrants should hate rich immigrants even more.
You can (falsely) accuse immigrants of being lazy and not working, but theyre FAR more willing to work than anyone who can afford to pay the orange fuck $1 million for citizenship. Rich people don’t work.
Any MAGA who are anti-immigrant should be upset about this. Anyone who can afford this “gold card” bullshit has assets elsewhere, and they *actually* will not contribute to this country.
UtzTheCrabChip on
I know nothing matters or whatever anymore… But he’s also saying that the money for this will be put into some kind of fund that he has access and control over
So he’s *explicitly* planning to raise revenue and spending funds without Congressional oversight or input.
It’s laughably outside the Constitution, and if there were any justice in the world he should be impeached and removed for this alone.
But not only will his toadies in the GOP go along, so will the “opposition” because it’s too divisive or some stupid shit
AnswerGuy301 on
While quite a few countries do something like this in terms of “golden visa” type immigration programs..they’re not usually branded to the head of state/government, someone who got elected to office by a bunch of people who believe that the country is full to boot.
LostDragon1986 on
If you struggled to put the money together to come to the US then you need to prepare to go back to where you came from.
If you have the ability to make a 7 figure “Contribution” then you get to be in the express line to stay in the country.
/SARCASM
ianishomer on
You can’t get into the country if you have anti fat boy memes, you get chucked out of the country if you are brown, but if you have a $million, you can come right in, crimes and everything.
Tricky_Potatoe on
Lol, some countries had schemes where you could attain permanent stay if you invest in the country. Here, Trump is straight up saying if you give me one million USD in a briefcase you’re more than welcome.
Rinmine014 on
Can you believe that none of this is to resolve the debt?
Also, theres a more than likely chance that anyone who buy this… will be deported come the next admin because of how unconstitutional this is?
Tenchi2020 on
>Trump Platinum Card
>Coming Soon*
>Foreign nationals can sign up now and secure their places on the waiting list for the Trump Platinum Card. When launched, and upon receipt of a $15,000 DHS processing fee and $5 million contribution, they will have the ability to spend up to 270 days in the United States __without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income__.
Ran this through ChatGPT with the prompt: what way would an oligarch be able to take advantage of this non tax for 270 days?
1. Timing Massive Income Events Outside U.S. Tax Reach
The biggest advantage is when income is realized.
An oligarch could:
• Sell a foreign company
• Trigger dividends from offshore holdings
• Receive carried interest distributions
• Exercise options or vest equity
• Close a major commodity or energy deal
If all of that income is legally sourced outside the U.S., and the card explicitly shields non-U.S. income during the 270-day window, then:
• They live in the U.S.
• They negotiate, manage, and enjoy the deal in the U.S.
• They don’t pay U.S. tax on the windfall
This is not theoretical. This is how global tax planning already works, just normally without physical U.S. presence.
Opinion (fact-backed):
This effectively lets wealth be physically in America while tax residency floats elsewhere. That’s extremely valuable.
⸻
2. Strategic Asset Restructuring While Physically in the U.S.
The 270-day window gives time to:
• Reorganize offshore trusts
• Move assets between jurisdictions
• Redomicile holding companies
• Convert income types (ordinary income → capital gains)
• Shift IP ownership (royalties are huge here)
All while enjoying U.S. legal protections, banking access, and dealmaking.
Normally, spending too much time in the U.S. risks triggering:
• Substantial Presence Test
• IRS residency scrutiny
This card appears designed to neutralize that risk temporarily.
⸻
3. U.S. Banking, Real Estate, and Deal Access Without Full Tax Exposure
Even today, foreign nationals face friction opening accounts, moving money, and investing.
With this setup, an oligarch could:
• Buy U.S. real estate through LLCs
• Open U.S. banking relationships
• Park capital in U.S. dollar assets
• Participate in U.S. private equity deals
• Sit on boards, negotiate mergers, network
But avoid:
• Worldwide income taxation
• FATCA-style reporting burdens (depending on implementation)
This is especially attractive during:
• Sanctions volatility
• Currency instability
• Political risk at home
⸻
4. Use the U.S. as a “Safe Harbor Base” While Income Happens Elsewhere
This is subtle but important.
The oligarch doesn’t need income from the U.S.
They need:
• Stability
• Infrastructure
• Rule of law
• Personal security
• Family safety
• World-class healthcare and education
So they:
• Live in the U.S.
• Run global operations remotely
• Keep income flowing through foreign entities
• Stay just under the residency threshold
This is effectively a paid, temporary tax moat.
⸻
5. Why $5 Million + $15K Is Cheap at That Level
For someone with:
• $500 million net worth
• $2 billion net worth
• $10+ billion net worth
Paying $5 million upfront to:
• Avoid tens or hundreds of millions in taxes
• Gain U.S. access
• Reduce geopolitical risk
Is not expensive. It’s efficient.
At that scale, it’s not a bribe, it’s a rounding error.
⸻
6. The Broader Reality Check
Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
• This kind of structure does not benefit ordinary immigrants
• It does not benefit skilled workers
• It does not benefit asylum seekers
• It does not benefit U.S. wage earners
It benefits:
• Capital mobility
• Ultra-high-net-worth individuals
• People who already have accountants, lawyers, and shell structures
Opinion:
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a financial instrument wrapped in immigration language.
⸻
Bottom Line
An oligarch could use this to:
• Live in the U.S. most of the year
• Avoid U.S. taxation on massive foreign income
• Time wealth events strategically
• Shield assets during global instability
• Buy influence, access, and safety legally
If implemented as described, it would be one of the most aggressive wealth-attraction tools ever proposed, and it would absolutely widen the gap between people who earn money and people whose money earns money.
Kooldude777 on
A lot of criminal$, with loaded bank accounts, will be applying for this. People with money are not a way to choose your incoming residents. Skills is a better way to improve the quality of the residents.
Cakeyhands on
So basically a slave-owning Saudi nepo prince can buy up apartments in new York and make them more expensive for the average American.
America first, Americans second.
lelo-pixel on
It is so crazy that he deports people for being “illegals”, although a lot of them are trying to get their citizenship the normal way and then ends up selling citizenship cards… that sounds like it was planned ngl…
oldbastardbob on
Doesn’t say where that $1 million “contribution” goes, does it?
My assumption is that it goes into a “campaign fund” or Super PAC” that belongs to Trump. And his next ghost written book will launder that “campaign” money right into his personal account.
WavesOfEchoes on
Wait until you see the Trump DIAMOND card!
“Upon a donation *wink wink* to the TRUMP SCROOGE MCDUCKIN’ IT FUND in the amount of $25 Million Dollars, and a quick Oval Office BJ to the man himself, foreign nationals can run roughshod over the American people like they own the fucking place — because you will own it!”
unserious-dude on
Welcome to the second Gilded Age of America. Special thanks to the wealthy conservative Americans. The minions wait in line for favor from your masters. If you misbehave, you shall be arrested and/or deported from the country back to your shithole.
work_number on
Word Definitions for $15000… This word means to reduce the value or quality of something, often used when describing how an experience or achievement has been diminished.
lobsterman2112 on
If this is a good deal, that means $5M is significantly less than the person’s taxes would be.
In other words, the US loses out on the tax side more than $5M for each of the Platinum Cards.
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People of the United States of America… I think the time to act has come. Your king is selling off your country and all the values that come with it! If you don’t start taking action NOW, things will look really bad for the USA!! (Not that it doesn’t already do that…)
So, they WANT people to have citizenship but only if they’re a billionaire. Sure, because everyone just casually has 15000 in cash lying around that they can use to… buy something that millions of people are literally working their butts off for.
There really is a class of wealthy I truly have no idea about.
A market for those that wish to pay 5million dollars to spend the best part of a year living tax free in a foreign country
Take this how you will… anyone who hates immigrants should hate rich immigrants even more.
You can (falsely) accuse immigrants of being lazy and not working, but theyre FAR more willing to work than anyone who can afford to pay the orange fuck $1 million for citizenship. Rich people don’t work.
Any MAGA who are anti-immigrant should be upset about this. Anyone who can afford this “gold card” bullshit has assets elsewhere, and they *actually* will not contribute to this country.
I know nothing matters or whatever anymore… But he’s also saying that the money for this will be put into some kind of fund that he has access and control over
So he’s *explicitly* planning to raise revenue and spending funds without Congressional oversight or input.
It’s laughably outside the Constitution, and if there were any justice in the world he should be impeached and removed for this alone.
But not only will his toadies in the GOP go along, so will the “opposition” because it’s too divisive or some stupid shit
While quite a few countries do something like this in terms of “golden visa” type immigration programs..they’re not usually branded to the head of state/government, someone who got elected to office by a bunch of people who believe that the country is full to boot.
If you struggled to put the money together to come to the US then you need to prepare to go back to where you came from.
If you have the ability to make a 7 figure “Contribution” then you get to be in the express line to stay in the country.
/SARCASM
You can’t get into the country if you have anti fat boy memes, you get chucked out of the country if you are brown, but if you have a $million, you can come right in, crimes and everything.
Lol, some countries had schemes where you could attain permanent stay if you invest in the country. Here, Trump is straight up saying if you give me one million USD in a briefcase you’re more than welcome.
Can you believe that none of this is to resolve the debt?
Also, theres a more than likely chance that anyone who buy this… will be deported come the next admin because of how unconstitutional this is?
>Trump Platinum Card
>Coming Soon*
>Foreign nationals can sign up now and secure their places on the waiting list for the Trump Platinum Card. When launched, and upon receipt of a $15,000 DHS processing fee and $5 million contribution, they will have the ability to spend up to 270 days in the United States __without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income__.
Ran this through ChatGPT with the prompt: what way would an oligarch be able to take advantage of this non tax for 270 days?
1. Timing Massive Income Events Outside U.S. Tax Reach
The biggest advantage is when income is realized.
An oligarch could:
• Sell a foreign company
• Trigger dividends from offshore holdings
• Receive carried interest distributions
• Exercise options or vest equity
• Close a major commodity or energy deal
If all of that income is legally sourced outside the U.S., and the card explicitly shields non-U.S. income during the 270-day window, then:
• They live in the U.S.
• They negotiate, manage, and enjoy the deal in the U.S.
• They don’t pay U.S. tax on the windfall
This is not theoretical. This is how global tax planning already works, just normally without physical U.S. presence.
Opinion (fact-backed):
This effectively lets wealth be physically in America while tax residency floats elsewhere. That’s extremely valuable.
⸻
2. Strategic Asset Restructuring While Physically in the U.S.
The 270-day window gives time to:
• Reorganize offshore trusts
• Move assets between jurisdictions
• Redomicile holding companies
• Convert income types (ordinary income → capital gains)
• Shift IP ownership (royalties are huge here)
All while enjoying U.S. legal protections, banking access, and dealmaking.
Normally, spending too much time in the U.S. risks triggering:
• Substantial Presence Test
• IRS residency scrutiny
This card appears designed to neutralize that risk temporarily.
⸻
3. U.S. Banking, Real Estate, and Deal Access Without Full Tax Exposure
Even today, foreign nationals face friction opening accounts, moving money, and investing.
With this setup, an oligarch could:
• Buy U.S. real estate through LLCs
• Open U.S. banking relationships
• Park capital in U.S. dollar assets
• Participate in U.S. private equity deals
• Sit on boards, negotiate mergers, network
But avoid:
• Worldwide income taxation
• FATCA-style reporting burdens (depending on implementation)
This is especially attractive during:
• Sanctions volatility
• Currency instability
• Political risk at home
⸻
4. Use the U.S. as a “Safe Harbor Base” While Income Happens Elsewhere
This is subtle but important.
The oligarch doesn’t need income from the U.S.
They need:
• Stability
• Infrastructure
• Rule of law
• Personal security
• Family safety
• World-class healthcare and education
So they:
• Live in the U.S.
• Run global operations remotely
• Keep income flowing through foreign entities
• Stay just under the residency threshold
This is effectively a paid, temporary tax moat.
⸻
5. Why $5 Million + $15K Is Cheap at That Level
For someone with:
• $500 million net worth
• $2 billion net worth
• $10+ billion net worth
Paying $5 million upfront to:
• Avoid tens or hundreds of millions in taxes
• Gain U.S. access
• Reduce geopolitical risk
Is not expensive. It’s efficient.
At that scale, it’s not a bribe, it’s a rounding error.
⸻
6. The Broader Reality Check
Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
• This kind of structure does not benefit ordinary immigrants
• It does not benefit skilled workers
• It does not benefit asylum seekers
• It does not benefit U.S. wage earners
It benefits:
• Capital mobility
• Ultra-high-net-worth individuals
• People who already have accountants, lawyers, and shell structures
Opinion:
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a financial instrument wrapped in immigration language.
⸻
Bottom Line
An oligarch could use this to:
• Live in the U.S. most of the year
• Avoid U.S. taxation on massive foreign income
• Time wealth events strategically
• Shield assets during global instability
• Buy influence, access, and safety legally
If implemented as described, it would be one of the most aggressive wealth-attraction tools ever proposed, and it would absolutely widen the gap between people who earn money and people whose money earns money.
A lot of criminal$, with loaded bank accounts, will be applying for this. People with money are not a way to choose your incoming residents. Skills is a better way to improve the quality of the residents.
So basically a slave-owning Saudi nepo prince can buy up apartments in new York and make them more expensive for the average American.
America first, Americans second.
It is so crazy that he deports people for being “illegals”, although a lot of them are trying to get their citizenship the normal way and then ends up selling citizenship cards… that sounds like it was planned ngl…
Doesn’t say where that $1 million “contribution” goes, does it?
My assumption is that it goes into a “campaign fund” or Super PAC” that belongs to Trump. And his next ghost written book will launder that “campaign” money right into his personal account.
Wait until you see the Trump DIAMOND card!
“Upon a donation *wink wink* to the TRUMP SCROOGE MCDUCKIN’ IT FUND in the amount of $25 Million Dollars, and a quick Oval Office BJ to the man himself, foreign nationals can run roughshod over the American people like they own the fucking place — because you will own it!”
Welcome to the second Gilded Age of America. Special thanks to the wealthy conservative Americans. The minions wait in line for favor from your masters. If you misbehave, you shall be arrested and/or deported from the country back to your shithole.
Word Definitions for $15000… This word means to reduce the value or quality of something, often used when describing how an experience or achievement has been diminished.
If this is a good deal, that means $5M is significantly less than the person’s taxes would be.
In other words, the US loses out on the tax side more than $5M for each of the Platinum Cards.