00:00It's just been an interesting day from the standpoint of news.
00:06As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker
00:11on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large.
00:16Largest one ever seized, actually.
00:19And other things are happening, so you'll be seeing that later,
00:24and you'll be talking about that later with some other people.
00:26Very excitingly, for me and for the country,
00:31we've just launched the Trump gold card.
00:34It was about 30 minutes from now.
00:39The site goes up, and all funds go to the United States government.
00:44It could be a tremendous amount of money.
00:47It'll also be able to have people like this keep, as an example,
00:50just one example.
00:51There are a lot of examples, people just buying them.
00:54It's somewhat like a green card.
00:56But with big advantages over a green card.
01:00And companies are going to be able to go to the Wharton School of Finance,
01:06the Stern Business School, Harvard, MIT,
01:11wherever you may get your students, any school.
01:14And you're able to buy a card and keep that person in the United States, actually.
01:20So there's certainty, because a lot of, I've heard from Tim Cook of Apple,
01:26and I've heard from a lot of people, some of the people at this table,
01:30that essentially in the United States, you can't keep the student.
01:33You can't hire people from the best colleges,
01:36because you don't know whether or not you can keep the person.
01:39And they come and have the people get out.
01:42They throw the person out of the country.
01:44You graduate number one from your college.
01:45And there's no way of guaranteeing, I guess you could say,
01:50there's no way of guaranteeing that they're able to stay in the country.
01:53Howard, maybe you'll give a little description of the Trump gold card.
01:58So, for an individual, it's $1 million.
02:03And for a corporation, it's $2 million.
02:07And as the President said, for a corporation,
02:10they spend $2 million.
02:13They can then have an employee.
02:16Full vetting.
02:17The best vetting the government has ever done.
02:19$15,000 vetting to make sure these people
02:23absolutely qualify to be an American.
02:26Absolutely qualify.
02:28And then the company can keep them here.
02:31And they have a path to citizenship.
02:33Obviously, they have to be perfect people in America.
02:37And having passed the vetting, after five years,
02:40they'll be available to become citizens.
02:42And then the corporation can put someone else on the card.
02:45So, for a company, they can keep putting people on the card.
02:48One person per card.
02:50And for an individual, it's $1 million.
02:52And it's a gift to the United States of America
02:55to help America be great again on a big Donald Trump.
03:01And there are two gifts.
03:02It's a gift of getting somebody great coming into our country.
03:06Because we think these would be some tremendous people
03:09that wouldn't be allowed to stay.
03:11You know, they graduate from college.
03:12They have to go back to India.
03:13They have to go back to China.
03:14They have to go back to France.
03:16They have to go back to wherever they came from.
03:19Very hard to stay.
03:21It's a shame.
03:21It's ridiculous things.
03:23We're taking care of that.
03:24The companies are going to be very happy.
03:26I know Apple's going to be happy.
03:28But a lot of the companies, nobody talked to me more about it than Kim Cook.
03:35He said it's a real problem.
03:38And it's not going to be a problem anymore.
03:39As you know, they used to send people up to Canada
03:41and other places, other countries.
03:44So, we solved that.
03:45And the other thing is it will take in, we think,
03:47probably billions of dollars that will go to the Treasury of the United States.
03:52It will go to an account where we can do things positive for the country.
03:57So, it will be a great thing.
03:58We'll take it, I think, billions of dollars.
04:03Many billions of dollars, even.
04:06So, that's very exciting.
04:08My question is on the gold card.
04:11I apologize if I missed the answer to this.
04:13Is there a limit to how many gold cards these companies can buy?
04:17Howard?
04:18So, the program is part of the already approved visas.
04:23So, we're just going to have great people come into this country.
04:28You know, the average green card holder earned less than the average American.
04:34So, they were more likely to be on the dole and be on our assistance programs than average Americans.
04:41And the idea is from President Trump, he wants to raise it, bring in the best people into America.
04:46So, same visas, but now just full of the best people.
04:52Basically, it's a green card, but much better.
04:56Much more powerful.
04:58A much stronger path.
05:00And a path is a big deal.
05:02Have to be great people, but much stronger path.
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