Trump Says He’s Selling American Citizenship to Foreign Bidders Because He’s ‘America First’

Charlie NashMar 19th, 2025, 8:04 pm

President Donald Trump defended his decision to sell U.S. citizenship to wealthy foreign bidders on Wednesday by claiming the policy was “America First.”

During an interview with the president, Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked, “$5 million investment from a foreigner coming into the United States. Why should our citizenship be purchased for any amount of money? Especially given the fact that you are America First.”

“That’s why, because I’m America First,” replied Trump. “Because at $5 million, you’re getting a lot of things, but you’re getting $5 million. Let’s say we sell a million of them. That’s $5 trillion. We are now an unbelievably successful country paying down tremendous amounts of debt. It’s all going to pay down debt. We’re going to have very little debt.”

He continued:

If you did $5 million, now, generally people that can pay $5 million are going to be job producers, okay? They’re going to be successful, they’re going to produce jobs. But here’s another thing. Apple comes to me, a lot of companies come to me, they say, “Sir, we just made a deal to hire the number one student at the Wharton School of Finance or at Harvard Business School or anything else or MIT or Stanford or any of them, but they are going to throw them out of the country the day after graduation.” They’ll buy these.

As Ingraham tried to interrogate Trump further, he quickly dodged by saying, “I will tell you what my people want to call it. It will drive you crazy. It will drive the left crazy. They want to call it the Trump Card because the Trump Card sells much better than the Gold Card.”

“So you’re not worried about any unsavory people coming in?” asked Ingraham.

Trump responded, “Yeah, I’m worried about unsavory, in which case we’re gonna give them the money back and they get out.”

After Ingraham pressed, “They’ll be properly vetted?” Trump concluded, “Oh, they’re gonna be properly vetted but, you know, we’re talking about a lot of people. I think it’s going to be very successful.”

Trump announced last month that his administration would soon start selling a $5 million “Gold Card” to wealthy foreign nationals.

“We’re going to be selling a Gold Card. You have a green card. This is a gold card,” he said. “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.”

Watch above via Fox News.