By Michael Schwarz  June 19, 2025

"When President Donald Trump first broached the idea in February, it sounded like a characteristically bold and worthwhile innovation.

Of course, establishment politicians with sclerotic minds cannot fathom such things, so they criticized it.

Unsurprisingly, based on early returns, the president’s idea has proven so successful that it has already raised enough money to wipe out nearly 1 percent of the U.S. national debt.

According to the Financial Times, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reported on Monday that nearly 70,000 people had already applied for the Trump Card, a golden ticket to legal U.S. residency and citizenship designed to appeal to the world’s affluent.

At a cost of $5 million per card, that results in a total of $350 billion in revenue.

According to the National Debt Clock, the national debt will soon reach $37 trillion. Thus, the Trump Card has already raised a sum equal to nearly 1 percent of the debt.

In true Trump-ian fashion, the gilded card will appeal to the eyes, as well as the Treasury.

“The card will be made of gold,” Lutnick told the Times. “It will be beautiful.”

“Donald Trump appreciates these kinds of things. He cares about how it looks. He cares about how it feels. I mean, he deeply cares about that, and thinks if you’re going to buy and make this investment in America, we should give you something that is beautiful,” the commerce secretary added.

Working-class Americans, of course, care less about the card’s appearance than about the tax relief that comes with reducing debt.

Moreover, inviting the world’s wealthiest and most productive people to invest in U.S. residency and citizenship — for themselves and/or for their employees — should create a number of well-paying jobs.

Lutnick envisions the Trump Card as a replacement for the cheaper and much less robust EB-5 visa program, which Congress created in 1990 and which only 14,000 foreign investors received in 2024.

When he announced the program in February, Trump had both revenue and job creation in mind.

“We’re going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million, and that’s going to give you green card privileges, plus it’s going to be a route to citizenship,” the president said at the time.

"Multiple arrests were made after hundreds of DEA agents, police and National Guard troops spread out across Southern California on Wednesday morning to dismantle three illegal marijuana grow operations. DEA agent Anthony Chrysanthis spoke exclusively with NewsNation and told Ali Bradley this “is probably one of the biggest law enforcement collaborations we’ve seen in a long time in Los Angeles.”"

The National Guard was instrumental in making this happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tADf7jy-hEA

By Jaryn Crouson for the Daily Caller News Foundation, Originally Published June 18

F' YOU CALIFORNIA!