1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Hi, still searching for the perfect gift for your relatives 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,559 this holiday season, Well look no further. Trump's latest grift. 3 00:00:07,719 --> 00:00:10,480 It might be the perfect present. That's, of course, if 4 00:00:10,519 --> 00:00:14,080 you have a spare million or five million dollars lying around. 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,399 Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on our continued 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,760 journey to half a million subscribers. My friends, thanks to you, 7 00:00:21,039 --> 00:00:24,359 we are one thousand away from hitting our mark a 8 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:28,879 thousand subscribers. So do me a favor, hit subscribe, watch comment. 9 00:00:29,079 --> 00:00:32,119 Please keep the comments coming and share with family and friends. 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,640 Because this level of stupidity, this grift, it's got to 11 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,399 come to an end. So look Trump's grift, that's of course, 12 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:44,240 gift with an R was. It was literally amped up 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,320 a few notches just this week when he announced that 14 00:00:47,439 --> 00:00:52,200 his rumored gold card, the Trump Gold Card, we're officially 15 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,880 going on sale. What is the Trump Gold Card. That's 16 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:00,479 where individuals can pay one million dollars for legal status 17 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:04,159 here in the United States, and companies can pay a 18 00:01:04,159 --> 00:01:09,040 whopping two million dollars per employee. Now, if that's not 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,359 stupid enough, well enter Howard Lutnik, who made the rounds 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,680 this morning to promote the cards, something that Lutnik should 21 00:01:17,719 --> 00:01:20,920 keep in mind when he's making these ridiculous comments, is 22 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:25,000 that just because you're wealthy doesn't actually mean that you're smart. 23 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:26,120 Play the clip. 24 00:01:26,879 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 2: A lot of times I do not look immediately for 25 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:33,159 the downside to something, but I'm sure people are at 26 00:01:33,159 --> 00:01:36,920 this point. But if the President says Tim Cook has 27 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,000 actually pushed for this policy, I think that's a pretty 28 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,480 good endorsement that maybe we're the President's onto something here. 29 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,359 Speaker 3: So you've got to be able to bring in the 30 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:49,760 best and brightest to the country. You know this concept 31 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,519 where you just get online to come into the United 32 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,239 States of America and you just come on in. I mean, 33 00:01:55,319 --> 00:01:59,359 the average Green card holder in America makes one third 34 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:01,920 less than the average American. 35 00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:03,319 Speaker 1: We should be bringing in the. 36 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 3: Best in the brightest, and that's what Donald Trump is 37 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,800 changing about our immigration system. Let's expedite the best in 38 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,560 the brightest. Who are going to give a million dollars 39 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,719 to the United States to prove they're at the top 40 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,759 of the top of the list. 41 00:02:17,439 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: I guess just the optics of it is what bothers 42 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:21,759 me and work. 43 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, the optics, as I wrote in my sub stack 44 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,120 of this morning, you know who's going to be the 45 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,080 people paying a million dollars or two million dollars or 46 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:38,039 the five million dollars exclusive Trump Platinum card, sure drug dealers, 47 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:43,520 money launderers, Russian oligarchs. Who else is sitting with millions 48 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,439 of dollars just laying around in order to come to 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,520 the United States. Lutnick also made a comment about how 50 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:56,759 this will prevent people from coming into our country for free. Now, look, 51 00:02:56,879 --> 00:02:59,680 I don't think people crossing at our southern border, you know, 52 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:03,639 the instead of working in the fields doing construction things 53 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,360 like that, the manual labor that Americans just don't want 54 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,960 to use. I'm certain that they're not the same individuals 55 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:15,479 who can afford this Trump Gold card. Play the clip. 56 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:16,000 This is a. 57 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 3: Fifteen thousand dollars vetting to make sure we have absolutely 58 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,120 the best people. And then they make a gift to 59 00:03:22,159 --> 00:03:25,039 the United States of a million dollars. So finally, instead 60 00:03:25,039 --> 00:03:27,759 of coming in for free and just getting online and 61 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,240 coming for free, now these people make a gift to 62 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,039 the United States of America a million dollars. So you know, 63 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:36,840 these are the best people coming in. They're economically capable 64 00:03:36,879 --> 00:03:40,159 of driving our economy, and they're really being better and 65 00:03:40,319 --> 00:03:42,840 so this is sort of raising the value of the 66 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:44,199 people coming into this country. 67 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: It's so freaking delusional. I mean, look, I know Howard 68 00:03:47,639 --> 00:03:51,479 a long time. Howard's not a stupid guy. He's no genius, 69 00:03:51,719 --> 00:03:55,199 but he's not stupid. This could be the stupidest idea 70 00:03:55,439 --> 00:03:58,360 other than, of course, having a gold card with Trump's 71 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,039 face on it, something that and of course appeals to 72 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:04,400 the big Guy. Now the White House. They've also put 73 00:04:04,439 --> 00:04:06,840 out a message for the people coming in for free. 74 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,960 Here's what they posted on Instagram. Let me show you 75 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:20,519 here illegally the deportation express. Nice. Nice for the holiday season. Well, 76 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:25,000 time to go. You've enjoyed your holiday long enough. Merry 77 00:04:25,079 --> 00:04:27,279 Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. 78 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 3: Now. 79 00:04:28,439 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: Look, like I said, just because you're rich, it doesn't 80 00:04:31,519 --> 00:04:34,000 mean that you're the best. It certainly doesn't mean that 81 00:04:34,079 --> 00:04:37,439 you're the brightest. Trump made that clear while talking to 82 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,079 the press yesterday when he asked what he would be 83 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:46,160 doing with the Venezuelan oil tanker that was seized. Trump 84 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,000 of course claimed that he would keep it. I guess 85 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,639 tell you one thing that I wasn't certain of. Keep 86 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,639 it for America, keep it for the world, or keep 87 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,360 it for himself the clip. 88 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,319 Speaker 4: What happens to the world, Well, we keep it. 89 00:05:05,399 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: I guess. 90 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 5: When you have to follow the tanker. You know you're 91 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:14,480 a good nursement Just follow the tanker. Follow, follow it, 92 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,000 get a helicopter, follow the tanker. But we're going to 93 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:19,160 I assume we're going. 94 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 4: To keep the. 95 00:05:21,399 --> 00:05:25,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's called piracy. By the way, it's an international law. 96 00:05:26,439 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 4: Right. 97 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,319 Speaker 1: Just the other day he was talking about how the 98 00:05:28,439 --> 00:05:31,480 Somalians the only thing that they're good for is taking 99 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,480 over boats aka piracy. Well, what do you think it 100 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,519 is that when a vote a boat is, for example, 101 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,480 in the middle of Venezuelan boat is in the middle 102 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:46,199 of international waters and Americans descend down from the helicopters 103 00:05:46,439 --> 00:05:49,399 and seize the vessel and now want to keep this 104 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,399 keep whatever is on it. This case, it happens to 105 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:57,680 be oil piracy. He also goes on and tells reporters 106 00:05:57,879 --> 00:06:02,480 he didn't understand why the United States couldn't achieve twenty 107 00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:06,040 five percent. Let me say this again, because this, to 108 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:12,160 me is just shockingly stupid. President of the United States 109 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:18,240 cannot understand why we as a country, the United States 110 00:06:18,319 --> 00:06:24,240 of America, cannot achieve a twenty five percent annual economic growth, 111 00:06:26,399 --> 00:06:28,319 Sure play the clip. 112 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 4: Instead of four percent GDP or three percent, which I said, 113 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,399 it's so wonderful, three percent, it should be able to 114 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:38,480 be twenty or twenty five percent. I don't know why 115 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:43,000 it can't be. You shouldn't kill it. And so we 116 00:06:43,199 --> 00:06:47,839 hope that if this country announced its great results, because 117 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,199 you didn't see great results over the next couple of years. 118 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:53,720 All these plans and I'm not just talking about AI. 119 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:58,800 We have the biggest number of auto plants planned. Toyota 120 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:01,800 just announced ten billion dollars in plans. 121 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: Okay, ten billion. Let me sort of maybe give him 122 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:09,839 an economics lesson. Let me start by telling you that 123 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,399 our GDP in America, which is two and a half 124 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:16,800 times the size of that of number two China, is 125 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,800 twenty eight point two trillion dollars. He wants to achieve 126 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:22,800 I don't know, let's say. 127 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,199 Speaker 3: A four. 128 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: Point eight a six trillion dollar or twenty five percent, 129 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:38,360 which you're talking about, you know, six or eight percent 130 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,519 increase or eight trillion dollars more. You do realize that 131 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:48,319 countries like England are like eleven trillion in total, or 132 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:51,959 Saudi Arabia, which is even less than that. But he 133 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,199 wants to do that as an annual growth, and based 134 00:07:55,279 --> 00:07:58,959 upon what, based upon the fact that Tyota wants to 135 00:07:59,079 --> 00:08:02,759 invest ten billion or twenty billion, or even fifty billion 136 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 into building more cars, do you realize just how ridiculous 137 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,680 a statement, that is, how economically challenged somebody is to 138 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,439 make even a statement like that. Who the hell is 139 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,560 standing next to him, Howard Lutnik and feeding him this 140 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:26,040 sort of bullshit? It's insulting. Actually, now, look, as we know, 141 00:08:26,519 --> 00:08:30,439 the gold card back to that nonsense. It's purely a 142 00:08:30,639 --> 00:08:35,000 grift to flatter wealthy foreigners, and Trump is of course 143 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,840 no stranger to that. Let me show you what he 144 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:43,159 posted on Instagram. In it, he writes, most influential man 145 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:48,120 in Europe. Mind you all right? That is on the 146 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,279 White House Instagram account. I do also want to show 147 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:58,960 you that being on the White House account fourteen thousand, 148 00:08:59,279 --> 00:09:03,799 nine hundred likes my Instagram. In fact, I get even more. 149 00:09:04,799 --> 00:09:09,240 He also told reporters that Boeing not surprisingly named him 150 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,759 the greatest salesman ever. Let me show you that click. 151 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 4: So it was a big turnaround in ten months. The 152 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,519 eighteen trillion dollars, it's a record. There's never been a 153 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,360 country that's gotten anywhere near that. In the Middle East. 154 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:26,120 When I left the Middle East, we brought back three 155 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,200 trillion dollars and lots of Boeing airplanes like three hundred 156 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,240 and Boeing gave me the award for the greatest salesman 157 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,120 in the history of Boeing, which was a nice little award. 158 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:37,440 I've a liplaged the greatest. I think I've sawn one 159 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,480 thousand Boeing plans. Can you believe now all they have 160 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,159 to do is make them? Okay, they got a makeum, 161 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:43,720 but they will. 162 00:09:45,159 --> 00:09:49,519 Speaker 1: But we have made historic Can I also remind each 163 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,879 and every one of you that the United States government, 164 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:58,440 the American taxpayer, does not own Boeing. It's a publicly 165 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:04,440 traded company. In fact, their CEO pays less than his house, 166 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,840 than his housekeepers or people who are working in the farms. 167 00:10:11,159 --> 00:10:14,360 Trump also claimed that without the United States, there is 168 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,639 no world because certainly the best way to get foreigner 169 00:10:18,639 --> 00:10:21,480 is to pay us millions of dollars is to shit 170 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,919 on their countries and called them shitholes. Play the clip 171 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:27,480 he did. 172 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:32,159 Speaker 4: A rather, I would say a rather small number that 173 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,600 could have been doubled, at least doubled and That's the 174 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:36,840 other thing. I think the rates for the United States, 175 00:10:36,879 --> 00:10:39,120 they're always the lowest in the world because without us, 176 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,679 there is no world. Without this economy, there's no world. 177 00:10:43,639 --> 00:10:45,320 You know, you could go to some of these wonderful 178 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,240 countries that you think are so great. Well, one of 179 00:10:47,279 --> 00:10:49,480 the reasons they're great is because we allowed. 180 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: Them to. 181 00:10:51,799 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 4: Get rich off of us. We didn't judge them anything. 182 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,519 You look at some of the deals. 183 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,639 Speaker 1: I do have to say it could be one of 184 00:10:59,759 --> 00:11:03,519 the most obnoxious things that he said, not just this year, 185 00:11:03,799 --> 00:11:07,200 but in his first administration as well. Let me be 186 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:12,879 crystal clear, while he's playing around and screwing over for example, 187 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,200 are farmers with these nonsensical tariffs to China? They went 188 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,519 ahead and what did they do? They decided to replace 189 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:26,399 their soy needs through Argentina. Oh yeah, the same company 190 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:29,879 that this genius just decided to give fifty billion dollars 191 00:11:30,159 --> 00:11:33,679 to bail them out of an economic hole. But that's okay, 192 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,320 that's okay. All of this makes perfect sense. In fact, 193 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:39,320 you know what the world is doing. They're moving on 194 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:43,159 without us because they've had it. They've absolutely had it. 195 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:47,720 Our allies, he considers our adversaries, our adversaries think that 196 00:11:47,799 --> 00:11:52,720 he's insane, and they remain adversarial allies in his mind. 197 00:11:53,519 --> 00:11:55,840 I don't even know how to put this as two 198 00:11:55,919 --> 00:12:01,240 and two together equally four, because it certainly doesn't. And finally, 199 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,360 because Trump loves to lie about the money that he's 200 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:08,559 bringing into the United States, twenty trillion, twenty seven trillion, 201 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,240 twenty nine trillion, all of that's sitting on some imaginary 202 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,960 tariff shelf. I want to end with a clip of 203 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:19,360 him talking about where the money from these gold cards, 204 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,759 from the Trump gold card grift is going to go. 205 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:24,000 Play the clip many. 206 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 4: Where as you know, they used to send people up 207 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,480 to Canada and other places of the countries. So we 208 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,240 solve that. And the other thing is it'll take in 209 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,679 we think probably billions of dollars. Then we'll go to 210 00:12:34,799 --> 00:12:37,960 the Treasury of the United States. We'll go to an 211 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,080 account where we can do things positive for the country. 212 00:12:42,159 --> 00:12:43,799 So it'll be a great thing. We'll take it. I think, 213 00:12:44,639 --> 00:12:49,200 you know, billions of dollars, many billions of dollars. 214 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:54,159 Speaker 1: Even so, billions don't do anything. It's a rounding number 215 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:59,240 towards our GDP. When you have a defense department with 216 00:12:59,399 --> 00:13:04,960 a one trillion dollar budget. Just think about how infantismal 217 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,120 even a billion dollars is. And I'm going to guarantee 218 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,720 each and every one of you we do not see 219 00:13:10,879 --> 00:13:15,360 a billion dollars worth of Trump gold card for visas, 220 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:19,360 because I'm not certain that there's a thousand people in 221 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,399 this world that have a million dollars in cash laying 222 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:29,159 around simply to buy themselves a visa. It's just stupid, 223 00:13:30,279 --> 00:13:34,320 And as always, thanks for listening. 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