Why not let Americans sell their citizenship for $5m instead.
That’s some capitalism I can get behind! Free the citizenship market!
I’d do it in seconds.
This is our actual present reality, people. Resist the urge to look away, it will still be there.
Holy fuck.
“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.”
When you’re a Russian asset, you sometimes forget to fake being a citizen.
“24h” was equivalent to “maybe during this term”, so 2 weeks could mean within the next 2 decades
Like infrastructure week!
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.
Yep, this is a distraction from the stock market melt down.
Don’t give him so much credit. Everything he does is credited as an intentional distraction from whatever it is that he just did.
Yeah, it’s pretty tiresome. “This is a distraction!!!” No, literally everything he does is a horrible mess and he just keeps doing more.
As is his proclamation that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and then goes on to ONLY talk about trans kids.
Which market meltdown?
?Yep. There’s this strategy called “pump and dump.” It’s often used by the wealthy to inflate stock prices before cratering them to buy at discount.
Idiots like you see line go up for a while, and think:
- I’ll buy at a discount as it falls
Instead of noticing the “pump” part of the scheme, also visible in your image.
Unless you want to point to some economic windfall happening between 2022 and 24 that explains all that growth, it is very likely from downsizing, buybacks, and off market darkpool price manipulation. (Which now happens regularly these days with every blue chip stock around 5pm).
Historically, Tariffs lead to a recession in 1830 (15% Tariffs), a Depression in 1930 (20% Tariffs), and now with a 40% plus Tariffs on basically everything, we are likely to see the complete disembowlment of the US Dollar and all the market dominance we built with it.
You better get your completely misplaced premature celebration out now, because you are going to be eating crow the rest of this year, and far into the future. There’s no amount of bullshit Trump spin that will bring our markets back. We are unquestionably fucked.
I will gladly check back here in 8 months to provide an updated chart, seeing as you will certainly be too embarrassed to do so.
Idiots like you
Here I am posting a joke, and you gotta be an ass and not even understand what I posted. We’re literally saying the same thing.
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.
He could wake up tomorrow in a Venezuelan prison form ‘accidently’ being deported, since he made it so that’s a thing now
Well, my first thought was that he did it to cover Melania 😂
Has anyone seen his birth certificate‽
And when you buy one you get a complimentary membership to Trump steaks. Trump steaks, when you want to eat ass without actually eating ass.
Country for sale! Buy now!
And it’s a going out of business fire sale.
Held in a flaming dumpster
Hey, be fair! We’re not on fire at the moment.
Speak for yourself, flameless.
Is there his ass on the back side of the card?
no, it’s on the front
It has his face on it, so it already has an ass on it.
I think people with 5mil could probably get in a lot cheaper.
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
Wasn’t it $1 million a week ago?
That was before the tariffs lol
Ah yes, pay $5m to live where other people get deported despite their legal status. Only a fucking moron will get one.
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.
If it’s still honored, it would appreciate in value in four years.
The dementia gets more and more apparent
Looks like monopoly money.
AI generated
One nation under Grok
Grok Damnit.
They should have to pay me $5m to own a card featuring his ugly mug
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.
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
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?
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.
The US is the only large country that taxes its citizens on their worldwide income.
That’s untrue. As a Canadian, I know we do, and I believe we’re far from alone. I don’t know why people keep perpetuating this myth.
Canada will not tax you if you are a citizen, but no longer reside in Canada. the US will.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation
Look at the map. Very few countries tax all citizens regardless of their residency in their worldwide income like the US does
the US will.
But there’s a US$130,000 exemption (the “foreign earned income exclusion”) and tax treaties with many countries, so not many people actually need to pay extra tax to the USA. Realistically, the only time you need to is if you earn more than US$130k and the country you live in has a lower tax rate than the USA.
What hurts much more is the “exit tax” when you leave the USA (as a green card holder after 7 years) or renounce your citizenship.
I’m assuming if someone had $5m just lying around to buy citizenship, their income is well beyond the $130k exemption
Sure, that’s completely true but unrelated to what you said in your original comment. I quote:
Why would anyone with that much money want to come here permanently
You were not talking about non-resident citizens, so stop moving the goalposts.
Plus, the US has one of the lowest tax rates of any of those “large countries” you talked about. So unless a US citizen resided in a country without a tax treaty with the US (there’s not many of them), they’re almost certainly being charged enough tax in their resident country that they pay $0 to the IRS on non-USA income.
I was talking about non-residents, that’s why I edited the comment. Resident non-citizens presumably have jobs here, and are already paying tax.
Being born here is increasingly an albatross to bear your entire life.
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Ew
If I was rich enough to do that I’d pay an extra 5 million to not have his ugly fuckin face on it.
