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Asharq Al-Awsat
10 hours ago
- Business
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Trump Unveils Website for $5 Million US Residency Visa
President Donald Trump touted a new website for his planned $5 million US residency permit on Wednesday, saying the waiting list for the golden visa has opened on "Thousands have been calling and asking how they can sign up to ride a beautiful road in gaining access to the Greatest Country and Market anywhere in the World," Trump wrote in a social media post, AFP reported. Trump unveiled the first such visa aboard Air Force One in April, holding a golden prototype that bore his face and promising the special permit would probably be available "in less than two weeks." The visas are not available yet, but the website announced Wednesday allows interested parties to submit their name, desired visa and email address under a header that says "The Trump Card is Coming." Trump previously said the new visa, a high-price version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could be used to reduce the US national deficit. The announcement comes as deportation raids are being ramped up across the country, prompting protests, and as Trump's administration faces ongoing lawsuits and accusations of rights violations over its anti-immigration blitz. Trump has said the new card would be a route to highly prized US citizenship. He said in February that his administration hoped to sell "maybe a million" of the cards and did not rule out that Russian oligarchs may be eligible.
News.com.au
11 hours ago
- Business
- News.com.au
Trump unveils website for $5 million US residency visa
President Donald Trump touted a new website for his planned $5 million US residency permit on Wednesday, saying the waiting list for the golden visa has opened on "Thousands have been calling and asking how they can sign up to ride a beautiful road in gaining access to the Greatest Country and Market anywhere in the World," Trump wrote in a social media post. Trump unveiled the first such visa aboard Air Force One in April, holding a golden prototype that bore his face and promising the special permit would probably be available "in less than two weeks." The visas are not available yet, but the website announced Wednesday allows interested parties to submit their name, desired visa and email address under a header that says "The Trump Card is Coming." Trump previously said the new visa, a high-price version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could be used to reduce the US national deficit. The announcement comes as deportation raids are being ramped up across the country, prompting protests, and as Trump's administration faces ongoing lawsuits and accusations of rights violations over its anti-immigration blitz. Trump has said the new card would be a route to highly prized US citizenship. He said in February that his administration hoped to sell "maybe a million" of the cards and did not rule out that Russian oligarchs may be eligible.
CNA
11 hours ago
- Business
- CNA
Trump unveils website for US$5 million US residency visa
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump touted a new website for his planned US$5 million United States residency permit on Wednesday (Jun 11), saying the waiting list for the golden visa has opened on "Thousands have been calling and asking how they can sign up to ride a beautiful road in gaining access to the Greatest Country and Market anywhere in the World," Trump wrote in a social media post. Trump unveiled the first such visa aboard Air Force One in April, holding a golden prototype that bore his face and promising the special permit would probably be available "in less than two weeks." The visas are not available yet, but the website announced on Wednesday allows interested parties to submit their name, desired visa and email address under a header that says "The Trump Card is Coming". Trump previously said the new visa, a high-priced version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could be used to reduce the US national deficit. The announcement comes as deportation raids are being ramped up across the country, prompting protests, and as Trump's administration faces ongoing lawsuits and accusations of rights violations over its anti-immigration blitz. Trump has said the new card would be a route to highly prized US citizenship. He said in February that his administration hoped to sell "maybe a million" of the cards and did not rule out that Russian oligarchs may be eligible.
Daily Mail
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Woke Daily Show host says getting US citizenship makes him feel like he's joined an 'evil empire'
A Daily Show host compared becoming a US citizen to joining an 'evil empire' during a podcast appearance. Ronny Chieng, 39, made the remark while discussing his decision to move to to the US from Malaysia to pursue his comedy career on Variety's Awards Circuit Podcast this past Friday. Chieng filed for citizenship 10 years ago, but only received it recently, he revealed, The Daily Show correspondent hailed the development as being decades in the making, before using it to pan the US's politics. The stand-up star said 'it was a weird time [for it happen]' considering he filed back when Barack Obama was still president. 'So it's weird to join,' he said. 'It's like you're joining this evil empire, but that's not why you joined it,' the left-leaning late night host continued in an apparent swipe at the Trump administration. 'It just so happened, the evil empire had some really nice TV shows, and they do stand and they do stand-up comedy in The Death Star.' 'I've been trying to come back to America since I left in '93 when I was seven years old,' Chieng added at another point, recalling a visit to the states that he said spurred his career. The comic is seen here with his father and sister outside the White House before that trip back overseas 'I've been trying to come back to America since I left in '93 when I was seven years old,' Chieng added at another point, recalling a visit to the States that he said spurred his career. 'I've been trying to come back to do stand-up comedy, and I finally got to come back in 2015, 10 years ago, and then citizenship nine years later,' he said. 'So, this Trump thing is all I've known. 'This isn't that new, to be honest,' Chieng said, referring to the media circuses that have surfaced during the conservative's two terms. 'Since I came to America, his shadow has been looming or in charge,' he recalled. The satirist then said Trump's second term has been 'outlandish' - comparing it to a 'car wreck [that occurs] every day'. He also likened his and his coworkers' continued coverage of the presidency to those of surgeons in 'an emergency room.' 'You kind of get numb to it,' the comic melodramatically explained. 'It's something new coming in, and it's something you have to comment on. 'It seems outlandish, but at the same time, it's been outlandish for nine years.' 'So is it outlandish?' he asked himself, before offering an answer. 'That's the feeling,' 'Anyone can apply for US citizenship under Obama,' the comedian joked at another point. 'That's easy, Golden Age. Great. 'If you really wanted it, [you did] it [then]. And that's what I did!' DHS announced last week that in Trump's first 100 days over 152,000 migrants were deported, many of them to prisons in El Salvador, Cuba and Panama. The Trump administration also announced a program that would pay migrants to self-deport. Border czar Tom Homan has warned protesters who impede ICE operations will face consequences. 'They can trespass, they'll be arrested,' 'If they impede, they will be arrested,' He told Fox News. 'If they knowingly harbor and conceal, they'll be arrested [too].' Trump's migrant deportations have proven popular among voters after years of unfettered and uncontrolled illegal immigration under President Biden. But the Trump administration has also faced criticism for failing to follow due process and has been accused of wrongly identifying innocent asylum seekers as dangerous gangsters, then shipping them to a terrifying El Salvadorean super prison. Chieng is married to Hannah Pham. The two met while studying studying commerce and law at the University of Melbourne.
Fox News
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
'Daily Show' star who recently became US citizen says becoming American is like joining 'evil empire'
Ronny Chieng, host of "The Daily Show," compared becoming a U.S. citizen to joining an "evil empire" during an appearance on Variety's "Awards Circuit" podcast on Friday. Chieng, who was born in Malaysia and moved to the U.S. as a child before returning to Malaysia at age seven, described his eventual return to America in 2015 as "30 years in the making." He said he came back to the U.S. to pursue his career in stand-up comedy and that it was a "weird time" to become an American. "I turn down offers to tour overseas all the time," Chieng said. "I've got no interest in it, because I came from there. I've been trying to come here… so it makes sense for me to get citizenship, because if I do leave the country, I know I can come back in to the stuff that I've been building here." Chieng told Variety that the type of things that attracted him to America were "Back to the Future" and "Seinfeld" and not "the Iraq War." "It's like you're joining this evil empire, but that's not why you joined it. It just so happened, the evil empire had some really nice TV shows, and they do stand-up comedy in The Death Star," he said. Beginning his tenure on the "Daily Show" in 2015, Chieng noted that "this Trump thing" is all he's known, saying that since he came to America, President Donald Trump's "shadow has been looming or in charge." "He's [Trump's] been talking s--- for a long time now. We're used to him talking s---," he explained. "He's been throwing chaos in the mix for a long time now. So in that sense, it doesn't feel like anything new in terms of coverage." Chieng also compared covering Trump's second term on the "Daily Show" to "being in an emergency room," describing the non-stop coverage of the president as "outlandish." "You kind of get numb to it, because it's always a car wreck every day. It's something new coming in, and it's something you have to comment on," Chieng said. "It seems outlandish, but at the same time, it's been outlandish for nine years. So is it outlandish? That's the feeling."
