CNN Panelists Crack Up at Lutnick’s Tacky ‘Gold Card’ Flop

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A group of CNN panelists couldn’t contain their laughter over the Trump administration’s desperate struggle to get the president’s controversial $1 million visa program off the ground.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-tacky-gold-card-is-failing-spectacularly/" rel="">confirmed Thursday that only one person has so far successfully applied for Donald Trump’s much-feted “gold card” visa.

The program grants high-net-worth foreigners the right to live and work in the United States, even as the president crusades to deport as many migrants from the country as possible.

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