Speaker 1: Hi, still searching for the perfect gift for your relatives
this holiday season, Well look no further. Trump's latest grift.
It might be the perfect present. That's, of course, if
you have a spare million or five million dollars lying around.
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Because this level of stupidity, this grift, it's got to
come to an end. So look Trump's grift, that's of course,
gift with an R was. It was literally amped up
a few notches just this week when he announced that
his rumored gold card, the Trump Gold Card, we're officially
going on sale. What is the Trump Gold Card. That's
where individuals can pay one million dollars for legal status
here in the United States, and companies can pay a
whopping two million dollars per employee. Now, if that's not
stupid enough, well enter Howard Lutnik, who made the rounds
this morning to promote the cards, something that Lutnik should
keep in mind when he's making these ridiculous comments, is
that just because you're wealthy doesn't actually mean that you're smart.
Play the clip.
Speaker 2: A lot of times I do not look immediately for
the downside to something, but I'm sure people are at
this point. But if the President says Tim Cook has
actually pushed for this policy, I think that's a pretty
good endorsement that maybe we're the President's onto something here.
Speaker 3: So you've got to be able to bring in the
best and brightest to the country. You know this concept
where you just get online to come into the United
States of America and you just come on in. I mean,
the average Green card holder in America makes one third
less than the average American.
Speaker 1: We should be bringing in the.
Speaker 3: Best in the brightest, and that's what Donald Trump is
changing about our immigration system. Let's expedite the best in
the brightest. Who are going to give a million dollars
to the United States to prove they're at the top
of the top of the list.
Speaker 2: I guess just the optics of it is what bothers
me and work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the optics, as I wrote in my sub stack
of this morning, you know who's going to be the
people paying a million dollars or two million dollars or
the five million dollars exclusive Trump Platinum card, sure drug dealers,
money launderers, Russian oligarchs. Who else is sitting with millions
of dollars just laying around in order to come to
the United States. Lutnick also made a comment about how
this will prevent people from coming into our country for free. Now, look,
I don't think people crossing at our southern border, you know,
the instead of working in the fields doing construction things
like that, the manual labor that Americans just don't want
to use. I'm certain that they're not the same individuals
who can afford this Trump Gold card. Play the clip.
This is a.
Speaker 3: Fifteen thousand dollars vetting to make sure we have absolutely
the best people. And then they make a gift to
the United States of a million dollars. So finally, instead
of coming in for free and just getting online and
coming for free, now these people make a gift to
the United States of America a million dollars. So you know,
these are the best people coming in. They're economically capable
of driving our economy, and they're really being better and
so this is sort of raising the value of the
people coming into this country.
Speaker 1: It's so freaking delusional. I mean, look, I know Howard
a long time. Howard's not a stupid guy. He's no genius,
but he's not stupid. This could be the stupidest idea
other than, of course, having a gold card with Trump's
face on it, something that and of course appeals to
the big Guy. Now the White House. They've also put
out a message for the people coming in for free.
Here's what they posted on Instagram. Let me show you
here illegally the deportation express. Nice. Nice for the holiday season. Well,
time to go. You've enjoyed your holiday long enough. Merry
Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Look, like I said, just because you're rich, it doesn't
mean that you're the best. It certainly doesn't mean that
you're the brightest. Trump made that clear while talking to
the press yesterday when he asked what he would be
doing with the Venezuelan oil tanker that was seized. Trump
of course claimed that he would keep it. I guess
tell you one thing that I wasn't certain of. Keep
it for America, keep it for the world, or keep
it for himself the clip.
Speaker 4: What happens to the world, Well, we keep it.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 5: When you have to follow the tanker. You know you're
a good nursement Just follow the tanker. Follow, follow it,
get a helicopter, follow the tanker. But we're going to
I assume we're going.
Speaker 4: To keep the.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's called piracy. By the way, it's an international law.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Just the other day he was talking about how the
Somalians the only thing that they're good for is taking
over boats aka piracy. Well, what do you think it
is that when a vote a boat is, for example,
in the middle of Venezuelan boat is in the middle
of international waters and Americans descend down from the helicopters
and seize the vessel and now want to keep this
keep whatever is on it. This case, it happens to
be oil piracy. He also goes on and tells reporters
he didn't understand why the United States couldn't achieve twenty
five percent. Let me say this again, because this, to
me is just shockingly stupid. President of the United States
cannot understand why we as a country, the United States
of America, cannot achieve a twenty five percent annual economic growth,
Sure play the clip.
Speaker 4: Instead of four percent GDP or three percent, which I said,
it's so wonderful, three percent, it should be able to
be twenty or twenty five percent. I don't know why
it can't be. You shouldn't kill it. And so we
hope that if this country announced its great results, because
you didn't see great results over the next couple of years.
All these plans and I'm not just talking about AI.
We have the biggest number of auto plants planned. Toyota
just announced ten billion dollars in plans.
Speaker 1: Okay, ten billion. Let me sort of maybe give him
an economics lesson. Let me start by telling you that
our GDP in America, which is two and a half
times the size of that of number two China, is
twenty eight point two trillion dollars. He wants to achieve
I don't know, let's say.
Speaker 3: A four.
Speaker 1: Point eight a six trillion dollar or twenty five percent,
which you're talking about, you know, six or eight percent
increase or eight trillion dollars more. You do realize that
countries like England are like eleven trillion in total, or
Saudi Arabia, which is even less than that. But he
wants to do that as an annual growth, and based
upon what, based upon the fact that Tyota wants to
invest ten billion or twenty billion, or even fifty billion
into building more cars, do you realize just how ridiculous
a statement, that is, how economically challenged somebody is to
make even a statement like that. Who the hell is
standing next to him, Howard Lutnik and feeding him this
sort of bullshit? It's insulting. Actually, now, look, as we know,
the gold card back to that nonsense. It's purely a
grift to flatter wealthy foreigners, and Trump is of course
no stranger to that. Let me show you what he
posted on Instagram. In it, he writes, most influential man
in Europe. Mind you all right? That is on the
White House Instagram account. I do also want to show
you that being on the White House account fourteen thousand,
nine hundred likes my Instagram. In fact, I get even more.
He also told reporters that Boeing not surprisingly named him
the greatest salesman ever. Let me show you that click.
Speaker 4: So it was a big turnaround in ten months. The
eighteen trillion dollars, it's a record. There's never been a
country that's gotten anywhere near that. In the Middle East.
When I left the Middle East, we brought back three
trillion dollars and lots of Boeing airplanes like three hundred
and Boeing gave me the award for the greatest salesman
in the history of Boeing, which was a nice little award.
I've a liplaged the greatest. I think I've sawn one
thousand Boeing plans. Can you believe now all they have
to do is make them? Okay, they got a makeum,
but they will.
Speaker 1: But we have made historic Can I also remind each
and every one of you that the United States government,
the American taxpayer, does not own Boeing. It's a publicly
traded company. In fact, their CEO pays less than his house,
than his housekeepers or people who are working in the farms.
Trump also claimed that without the United States, there is
no world because certainly the best way to get foreigner
is to pay us millions of dollars is to shit
on their countries and called them shitholes. Play the clip
he did.
Speaker 4: A rather, I would say a rather small number that
could have been doubled, at least doubled and That's the
other thing. I think the rates for the United States,
they're always the lowest in the world because without us,
there is no world. Without this economy, there's no world.
You know, you could go to some of these wonderful
countries that you think are so great. Well, one of
the reasons they're great is because we allowed.
Speaker 1: Them to.
Speaker 4: Get rich off of us. We didn't judge them anything.
You look at some of the deals.
Speaker 1: I do have to say it could be one of
the most obnoxious things that he said, not just this year,
but in his first administration as well. Let me be
crystal clear, while he's playing around and screwing over for example,
are farmers with these nonsensical tariffs to China? They went
ahead and what did they do? They decided to replace
their soy needs through Argentina. Oh yeah, the same company
that this genius just decided to give fifty billion dollars
to bail them out of an economic hole. But that's okay,
that's okay. All of this makes perfect sense. In fact,
you know what the world is doing. They're moving on
without us because they've had it. They've absolutely had it.
Our allies, he considers our adversaries, our adversaries think that
he's insane, and they remain adversarial allies in his mind.
I don't even know how to put this as two
and two together equally four, because it certainly doesn't. And finally,
because Trump loves to lie about the money that he's
bringing into the United States, twenty trillion, twenty seven trillion,
twenty nine trillion, all of that's sitting on some imaginary
tariff shelf. I want to end with a clip of
him talking about where the money from these gold cards,
from the Trump gold card grift is going to go.
Play the clip many.
Speaker 4: Where as you know, they used to send people up
to Canada and other places of the countries. So we
solve that. And the other thing is it'll take in
we think probably billions of dollars. Then we'll go to
the Treasury of the United States. We'll go to an
account where we can do things positive for the country.
So it'll be a great thing. We'll take it. I think,
you know, billions of dollars, many billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Even so, billions don't do anything. It's a rounding number
towards our GDP. When you have a defense department with
a one trillion dollar budget. Just think about how infantismal
even a billion dollars is. And I'm going to guarantee
each and every one of you we do not see
a billion dollars worth of Trump gold card for visas,
because I'm not certain that there's a thousand people in
this world that have a million dollars in cash laying
around simply to buy themselves a visa. It's just stupid,
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