The Trump “Gold Card,” a new, fast-track U.S. residency program is finally launched. It allows wealthy foreigners to “gift” $1 million (or $2 million for corporations) to the government for expedited permanent residency and a path to citizenship. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated the program aims to attract “top of the best” immigrants who significantly help the economy, shifting focus from “below-average” individuals, and could generate billions for the U.S. Treasury.

It’s not surprising to see the administration with a billionaire president and another 11 billionaires at cabinet level positions to consider those who cannot spare a mere one million dollars for a residency visa as “below average”, and those who can, as “top of the best”. In their view, if you are not filthy rich then you are nobody. In fact, when Trump was so excited to have rediscovered the word groceries , saying that it was an ancient word that nobody was using it anymore and that he started using it again, he was exactly referring to this ideology. He considers you a “nobody” if you are someone who doesn’t have people to do grocery shopping for you, someone who has been using the word groceries their entire life.

But the interesting part is when you contrast this against the president’s own previous remarks, regarding why we allow immigrants from the “shithole” countries, and not the “good ones” like Norway. As if the people of Norway have lined up in front of the US embassy in Oslo, each holding their one million dollar donation in a Samsonite briefcase. Who do they really think will benefit from this new program? It will still be people from the same “shithole” countries, but now the ones in their ruling class, the corrupt government officials and billionaire oligarchs who are the true reasons for those countries to have become “shitholes.” Think about the people of Honduras who have been fleeing the atrocities of the drug cartels in their country, who are likely no longer eligible for asylum, and Honduras’s former president who was convicted of attempting to trafficking 400,000 tons of cocaine to this country and was serving a 40-year sentence, who was just pardoned by the president. Because, you know, a drug trafficking former president of a “shithole” country is “top of the best,” but the hardworking people of the same country fleeing for their lives are “below average.”