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Trumpcard (Official US Government Website)
- tanduv 1y agois that eagle head following the cursor? that's hilarious!
- lawls 1y ago[flagged]
- CamperBob2 1y agoNo. How about judging people by their actions, instead, rather than by a number in a bank account?
- kylebenzle 1y agoYes. Amassing obscene wealth is anti-social and immoral. Hording wealth is an action. Anyone with much over $10,000,000 can be assumed to be evil on some level. You don't earn that kind of money, you exploit others for it.
- CamperBob2 1y agoWell, we'll see how you feel once you graduate.
- bigyabai 1y agoSeptuagenarian pastors around the world feel the same way: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
- card_zero 1y ago"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin."
- ycombigators 1y agoTheir actions? You mean like hoarding wealth?
- CamperBob2 1y agoIf you're here, you're richer than 99% of the people on Earth. Enjoy the upcoming class war; it may hold a few surprises for you.
- kg 1y agoI'll wager if you asked most people what they think "rich" is, the number they pick would not include the vast majority of people posting here on good ol' orange website. Class war is bad for everyone, yes, but it's a bit silly to generalize and pretend every tech worker is rich just because they pull down high five or low six figures. Doing well, certainly. Not millionaires.
- TehCorwiz 1y agoI don't have a yacht with a smaller yacht inside. I didn't buy a chair at my alma mater. My brother is deep in student loan debt. I skipped college because I couldn't afford to work and go to school. I keep a collection of screws because they're expensive otherwise. I can barely keep the lights on as a software dev. Sure, I eat better than someone from halfway around the world. But likewise we're both being taken advantage of by people of higher social and economic status and deprived of basic needs. We all desire an end to the hierarchy of abuse regardless of where on the totem of who-has-it-worse we are. Now go eat your rice, there are starving kids in Kentucky.
- ycombigators 1y agoAm I? The poorest member of the world's richest 1% has wealth starting from around $800,000 to $1 million USD. That's about 20 times my net wealth. This surprise - does it involve another tax cut for the super rich?
- freen 1y agoIn the 50’s (the GOP’s good old days) the top income tax bracket paid 90%+ of every dollar earned above $200k. (Roughly $3m in 2025 dollars) Billionaires are a policy choice that starves children and stunts economic growth.
- shuckles 1y agoI have a feeling people simply found other ways to be compensated instead of W2 income.
- CamperBob2 1y agoThat is, in fact, how it worked. Absolutely no one paid 90% income tax or anything close to it. Anyone who remembers how the Reagan tax cuts were sold to the public probably remembers that a key component of the campaign was a commitment to close countless tax loopholes.
- freen 1y agoAh yes, a feeling: even worse than an anecdote. Yes: they reinvested rather than pocketed revenue. Anyway, if did the research, you’d see the effective tax rate for the top income earners in US was 40% back then. Substantially higher than it is today. And that substantially larger portions of revenue were reinvested rather than recognized as profit: high taxes, oddly enough, incentivize investment. Do the math yourself: $1m in profit, 30% tax rate vs 1% tax rate: which rate incentivizes you to reinvest?
- TehCorwiz 1y agoIs hoarding wealth at the expense of everyone else not abusive behavior? Is paying your workers poverty wages and enriching yourself not exploitative? Why does "business" get a pass on socially acceptable behavior? "Oh, it involves money so it must be fair game." /s
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- upghost 1y agoI... what? Guys I think .gov got hacked. Cause the alternative is we are on the weird timeline. Can someone confirm we are not on the weird timeline?
- some_furry 1y agoThis is the weird and bad timeline.
- WorkerBee28474 1y agoI don't see any goatees.
- lostlogin 1y agoI misread this as ‘goatee’. Both work.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- tempodox 1y agoSatire has been defeated by reality once again.
- NaomiLehman 1y agoThis is some Baudrillardian meta-humor.
- ModernMech 1y agoThe books still say "Berenstain Bears" so yeah, it's the weird timeline.
- noitpmeder 1y agoWhat in the world
- donohoe 1y agoHow is this not illegal?
- macintux 1y agoWhen the Department of Justice has been taken over by sycophants and the Supreme Court has surrendered, nothing is illegal for Trump.
- BirAdam 1y agos/Trump/Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho/g
- TehCorwiz 1y agoI used many words earlier to express just this. If only I were so elegant and concise.
- CamperBob2 1y agoExcept Camacho was actually trying to make things better.
- softwaredoug 1y agoIt’s certainly illegal. I believe the law allows administrative fees, etc to cover costs. It doesn’t authorize fees as a source of income. But who would have standing to challenge someone else’s visa in court? Maybe existing people trying to get a green card? Or other immigration rights activists?
- TehCorwiz 1y agoThe Burrito Supreme Court said that they and no other are the sole arbiter of what constitutes an "official act" by The President. And, that he is immune from prosecution for "official acts". Congress has simultaneously abdicated lawmaking and has decided to let the president make policy via executive orders. I think most people have forgotten E.O.s are merely directives to the executive branch departments about how to implement the laws congress passes. Or, at least they were. Now apparently they're royal decrees.
- bigyabai 1y agoThe AI chicken-headed eagle at the bottom is a new all-time low in web design.
- upghost 1y agoOk to be fair the eagle looks just as confused and distressed to be there as the rest of us
- daemonologist 1y agoYes, if you haven't scrolled to the bottom I highly recommend it.
- alright2565 1y agoLooks like the eagle is hundreds of PNG files on a javascript timer, and it's dropping frames.
- cozzyd 1y agoIf this was satire it would be too difficult to believe.
- TehCorwiz 1y agoIdiocracy was the good timeline. Where are you President Comancho? He at least knew when to let the smartest person in the room talk and had the best interest of his country at heart.
- edfletcher_t137 1y agoWhat The Actual Fuck
- dkalola 1y agoWhy call it the Trump card? Regardless of what side you are on, this country is bigger than one man. This branding seems flippant and unserious.
- kg 1y agoNothing about this administration is serious.
- TehCorwiz 1y agoOh, it's deadly serious. It sounds like you've never dealt with a true narcissist.
- kingkawn 1y agoHello, time traveler from 2010
- softwaredoug 1y agoA time traveler appearing from 2010 to today would be a hilarious premise for an absurdist TV show.
- krapp 1y ago> Regardless of what side you are on, this country is bigger than one man. Not anymore. It is now precisely the size, shape and texture of one man's ego. > This branding seems flippant and unserious. A groyper script kiddie named "Big Balls" had root access to the government's entire data infrastructure and just deleted shit at will, Trump's tariff policies were written by Grok using imaginary math, the head of the CDC doesn't think germs are real, the DOJ says Epstein never had a client list and Trump is definitely not a pedophile, the head of American intelligence is a Putin apologist, the Secretary of Defense is a lunatic podcaster trying to purge the military of "woke" and Trump is so much more rotten cabbage than man that he has to appear on tv by GenAI just so people still think he's a functioning human being. And he's definitely a pedophile. We passed "flippant and unserious" miles and miles back. Can't even see it in the rear view mirror anymore.
- ycombigators 1y agoTrump foreign dictator card.
- tengbretson 1y ago$1 million Doesn't even come with a Disney fast pass or NFL redzone. Pass.
- illustraitor 1y agoThis is hilarious. He's just trolling at this point, isn't he.
- TehCorwiz 1y agoThe US has one of the largest militaries in the world and has nearly 75 year of experience in force projection around the world. No one is escaping what happens. It's just that he's turned the beast on it s people first. When it's done gorging itself on "traitors" it'll turn to empire building soon enough. Greed cannot be satisfied.
- yusyusyus 1y agolol this still requires a chargeable visa. i imagine this won’t get so much traction then.
- softwaredoug 1y agoYeah but that takes away from immigrants of those countries going through non-Trump-meme immigration paths?
- yusyusyus 1y agothe gold one, yeah. since it is an immigrant visa… but well situated applicants who want this done in a timely manner already have other options.
- leeoniya 1y agoweird they dont accept $Trump coin for this. it should be the only accepted form of payment, in fact.
- recroad 1y agoI feel embarrassed for the U.S.
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- Phil_Latio 1y agoI'll wait for the Trump Diamond Card
- freen 1y agoDidn’t they round up and handcuff a bunch of South Koreans who were legally allowed to work in the US? It’s really worth reading the South Korean perspective on the whole fiasco: https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_editorials/1218475.html https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_edit...
- softwaredoug 1y agoYeah it’s going to pretty badly screw up S Korean investment in US manufacturing. A pretty big own goal.
- freen 1y agoAlso, what dumbass is gonna drop a million on this? Literally the CIO of a $20b/year ARR company said to me: “I was gonna send my kids to school in the US. Now? Never in a million years. Even I won’t set foot there.“ You can’t win in the global economy AND nativist white supremacist politics at the same time.
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- allenrb 1y agoI’ll bid one no-trump.
- jensenbox 1y agoIs this real?
- freitasm 1y ago"If approved, an individual must make a gift of $1 million, which has been determined to provide sufficient evidence that the individual will substantially benefit the United States." So much winning... Seriously, what a joke.
- kgc 1y agoThe $5 million option gives you privileges even better than a US citizen since you do not pay taxes on foreign income while being a US resident. They should make it an annual fee.
- d--b 1y agoTechnically, these guys aren’t residents since they’re only allowed to stay 270 days a year. Not sure what the deal is though.
- baobun 1y agoSuppose you can stack them. Stay on $1M Gold by default then pop on the tax-free booster ahead of a major liquidity event.
- yencabulator 1y agoNormally, >6 months per year is the definition of residency. Any other country will consider these people US-resident.
- oliwarner 1y ago9 months residency. They seem like very different products to me.
- nkozyra 1y agoKind of incredible how fragile the scaffolding of American ideals was, in retrospect. The last eight months represent an unabated march to the most idiotic satirical version imaginable. No guardrails provided even the slightest of sanity or introspection, much less resistance.
- krapp 1y agoAnd we still have a little over three years to go. All this because eggs were expensive and a black woman in the White House was unthinkable.
- walls 1y ago> All this because eggs were expensive and a black woman in the White House was unthinkable. Well, that and decades of propaganda.
- TehCorwiz 1y agoDon't fret too much. This has been in the making since at least [1933](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot). Nixon moved it forward, but found enough conscience or fear to give in. Ford's pardon and the DoJ's failure to prosecute rounding out the idea of not actually holding our leaders materially accountable. Then Reagan comes in and torches the economic basis of the federal government, gutting its ability to audit the wealthy or effectively regulate white collar crime. He also quietly deregulates broadcast media leading to a massive consolidation throughout the 90's and oughts. Clinton, the centrist he was, let critical economic safeguards lapse. The gaslighting begins in earnest with Newt Gingrich leading. Then the world changed and a document written at least as far back as the 80s but never successfully adopted was renamed "The Patriot Act" and rammed through on an "emergency" basis and which laid the groundwork for the erosion of civil rights. "Free speech zones" enters the American lexicon, anywhere within 100 miles of the US international border is now subject to searches without a warrant. All the while media consolidation makes it possible for organization to push a fantastical right-wing agenda. The Overton window slides to the right. "Terrorism" becomes not just household but daily word. People became comfortable with the military, they were everywhere and in everything. And then the internet exploded in popularity and network connections and the meme wars began. The battle was lost because only one group understood the battle was occurring. We didn't start the fire.
- jensenbox 1y agohttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-gold-card-visa-00573494 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-gold-card-vis...
- jeffbee 1y agoBiden should have given the nukes to Mexico.
- yalogin 1y agoWhy does it call it a donation and not a fee? Does it go to the trump organization ? Also is this a replacement for the green card?
- djohnston 1y agoYyyyyuck. I don’t even care about the program specifics but the aesthetic is so tacky.
- Meekro 1y agoThis kind of thing is not new in the US. Check out the EB-5 investor visa[1], which has been around for decades and offers a similar investment-for-visa arrangement. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa
- cardamomo 1y agoThis is new. The president's face is on it. That alone should scream, "Something's very much not right!"
- Meekro 1y agoThe permanent residency card they issue won't look like that. It's an ID, and will have your photo and other identifying information on it.
- cardamomo 1y agoI believe that's truly beside the point. The marketing is based on the name and tastes (gold, nationalistic imagery) of the current president.
- Meekro 1y agoIt sounds like the objection you're making is to the website and not the program. Do you think it's always inappropriate for executive branch websites to reflect the style of the person in office? I can understand the push for a more neutral style, but the level of shock-and-horror for something the next administration could easily redesign seems.. excessive?
- walls 1y ago"So what if Adolf is putting banners of his face up everywhere, the next admin can just take them down!"
- softwaredoug 1y ago
- davisonio 1y agoThis is a great idea, will attract wealthy people to live in the US.
- none2585 1y agoWho exactly is that good for?
- yencabulator 1y agoTrump.
- softwaredoug 1y agoMaybe it’s a great idea. But we make changes like this through laws. Not imperial fiat from dear leader.
- windows_hater_7 1y agoagasp
- Danjoe4 1y agoThis is good. The central claim here is: if you can afford to pay $1 million, then you are almost certainly going to be a net benefit to our society. That's a far better and more meritocratic vetting process than some lotto visa with a 10 year backlog.
- Meekro 1y agoAnother argument for why it's good: if you're rich, you can either pay lots of money to an immigration lawyer to make sure your visa gets approved, or you could cut out the middleman and pay the government directly. Why wouldn't they just cut out the middleman?
- TehCorwiz 1y agoSince congress didn't authorize this how is it legal? If it's not authorized by congress and there's no rules about where the money goes, where does it go? How is it being tracked and where will the details be published? These are the questions answered by legislation. Here, it's a black hole into a pocket with no oversight.
- softwaredoug 1y agoI have a feeling Trump has a lot of crooked buddies that can pay $1m and will get preferential treatment. And if it’s a good idea, make it a law so it’s harder for future administrations to undo.
- cardamomo 1y agoThis is bad. Borders should be open.
- virgildotcodes 1y agoWorth noting the eagle animation at the bottom of the page is powered by several hundred requests for individual images.
- recroad 1y agoMAGA - Make animations great again
- OutOfHere 1y agoCan I reuse the eagle animation on my own website, using trumpcard.gov to serve the images? A PoC would help.
- thrance 1y agoAnd it's clearly AI-generated. As if one couldn't find a video of a bald eagle.
- pekim 1y agoAs the animation loops it uses the same set of images over again. But as they all have a Cache-Control header with a value of "public, max-age=0, must-revalidate" the browser makes another request for every one of the images, every loop of the animation. It results in transfer of something of the order of 0.6MB/sec, with no end.
- forgotTheLast 1y agoHow do we know the frames aren't generated and streamed on-the-fly from mocap on a real live eagle?
- rubyn00bie 1y agoSo a genuine question here regarding the platinum card, as it applies to non-US income for 270 days: If a corporation decided to apply for this, using a foreign subsidiary that holds US income from abroad—- could that corporation claim personhood and theoretically bring that income into the US tax free? Alternatively, could they funnel funds through a foreign born person to bypass paying taxes on that income?
- which 1y agoYou can buy Austrian citizenship for ~5M EUR. Cyprus and Malta offered similar schemes at much lower prices until recently. Italy incentivizes people to move their tax residence there by letting them pay a 200k EUR lump sum tax annually instead of the standard progressive rate. I don't really see why we shouldn't have programs like this if there is vetting, but I'm also curious under which US laws this can be justified. Who would have standing to contest this even if it wasn't legal? PS: Under 50 USC §3508, the CIA director or the Attorney General can bring in up to 100 aliens and their family per year for permanent residence without regard to any admissibility requirements. Perhaps to maximize revenue these spots can be auctioned off at a premium.
- OutOfHere 1y ago> I don't really see why we shouldn't have programs like this if there is vetting We should, but the program shouldn't be named after a current president. Note that it's an official .gov site, not a .com site. Also, the payment should of course go to the Treasury, not to Trump or his party.
- ourmandave 1y agoSame president that had to have his signature on the government issued Covid relief checks.
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- Meekro 1y agoThe payments are not going to Trump, personally. They're probably not going to the government, either; I bet this becomes like the EB-5 investor visa, where you make certain kinds of investments within the US. I admit that the text on the website doesn't make this clear, though.
- cjbenedikt 1y agoText explicitly calls it "donation". By definition that is not an investment.
- coloneltcb 1y agothis is revolting. Sure he’s an autocrat, blah blah blah, but he’s just so tacky
- arp242 1y agoIt's not that people like Ghadaffi or Sadam were known for their good taste haha. Trump's affinity for dictator chic is not entirely out of step.
- k310 1y agoHow does stuff like this come about? Graphic at imghost.online (jpeg) https://imghost.online/ib/mutN9e5l5Gdt5bj_1758079311.jpeg https://imghost.online/ib/mutN9e5l5Gdt5bj_1758079311.jpeg
- softwaredoug 1y agoMaybe it’s a good idea. Maybe it’s not. But the real issue is nobody had a policy debate about this in a legislative process. There’s no permanent law. It’s just Trump making stuff up. Congress makes laws. Executive implements them. Let’s get back to that please. Then it will last past this random-policy-of-the-week administration.
- zachncst 1y agoIs it April already?
- MitPitt 1y agoI like the font actually
- Gualdrapo 1y agoMe too. Reminds me of the Apple Garamond family Apple used to use in the 90s, though I'm too sleepy by now to check if they're the same. No idea why they stopped using it, it's beautiful.
- litoE 1y agowhois shows that the domain trumpcard.gov was created about 6 months ago. This is not something they just invented yesterday.
- infinite8s 1y agoHe's been talking about doing it since he was inaugurated.
- d--b 1y agoThe use of ´gift’ is extremely weird. I wanted to check what that was about, but there is no link to anything describing this in legalese. The website is exactly like a startup landing page that hasn’t built anything but wants to check engagement before proceeding. It’s only missing fake testimonies and clients. I am surprised though that they didn’t make it a requirement to pay in TrumpCoin. The design is so ridiculous, I could see these cards being used as collectibles by douchey crypto bros.
- rediguanayum 1y agoI think trumpcard.gov is legit: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-gold-card-visa-00573494 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-gold-card-vis... despite the website's parody nature.
- disqard 1y agoWhy is this flagged?
- mitchbob 1y agohttps://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-...
- jacknews 1y agoWhere does the 'gift' end up?
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoMore golden toilets.
- michaelhoney 1y agoevery day the US gets a little stupider. I look forward to when this is all over
- pacomerh 1y agoI remember watching the movie Idiocracy and laughing, thinking something like that could never happen to us. I can’t watch it anymore because it’s too close to reality
- mraniki 1y agoIs it the cheat code to avoid ICE and IRS combined?
- ethbr1 1y agoThe signature on the Trumpcard looks familiar... haven't I seen that somewhere, recently? Oh yeah, it was in the Epstein birthday book, bragging about secrets: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26086823-house-oversight-committee-epstein-documents-request-no-1/#document/p165 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26086823-house-overs...
- mizzao 1y agoIs the $1m / $5m going to the government or to Trump himself / his campaign / family business?
- rediguanayum 1y agoThis is real. Here's the executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/the-gold-card/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/the-...