Tuberville credits Trump as an idea guy with his ‘unusual’ gold card suggestion

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) credited President Donald Trump as “a business guy” when addressing the president’s plan to sell gold cards to wealthy immigrants but acknowledged that the idea is “very unusual.”

Trump touted the suggested revisions to the United States visa program this week, saying that these cards with “green card privileges” would be sold to immigrants for $5 million. The Alabama senator said that “only” Trump could come up with such an idea, adding that the president is “always” coming up with ideas to improve the country.

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