Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, posted on social media that the widely promoted “Trump Gold Card” visa program may not actually exist.

Stone, a Republican operative known for his decades-long relationship with Trump, served as an informal adviser to the President during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. Stone was convicted in 2019 on seven felony counts before Trump pardoned him in 2020. Stone remains closely tied to Trump’s inner circle.

The post raised eyebrows because it appeared to contradict months of statements from top administration officials and Trump himself, who had promoted the so-called Gold Card—a fast-track to U.S. citizenship that would be offered to wealthy foreign nationals for a $5 million payment, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.

In May, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Axios co-founder Mike Allen that a government website—trumpcard.gov—would launch “within weeks,” offering registration for what Lutnick described as “a path to citizenship” for the world’s wealthiest job creators.

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“The details of that will come soon after, but people can start to register. And all that will come over a matter of the next weeks—not months, weeks,” Lutnick said during the streamed event. He added that the administration believed the program could generate up to $1 trillion in revenue if 200,000 people bought in.

Trump has repeatedly touted the program as a new cornerstone of his immigration policy. “FOR FIVE MILLION $DOLLARS, THE TRUMP CARD IS COMING!” he posted on Truth Social on June 11, 2025. He reportedly said 15,000 people had signed up in the first 24 hours, claiming that would bring in $75 billion.

Lutnick followed on X, writing, “The wait is over,” and promoted trumpcard.gov as the central hub for the initiative.

An image on the site shows a gold card with Trump’s headshot, signature, and the number 5,000,000. However, as of July 25, the website still only offers a field for visitors to submit their email addresses to receive notifications about future updates.

Lutnick told Fox News that all applicants would be “deeply vetted” and that recipients would “bring entrepreneurial spirit, capacity and growth to America.”

“This is huge money for America,” Lutnick said in the interview with Fox News Chief Political Anchor Bret Baier, adding that recipients would pay U.S. taxes and create jobs.

However, immigration policy figures, such as Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, have raised red flags, warning that the plan could invite fraud. In a March statement to Fox News Digital, Ries said, “Any immigration benefit draws fraud. … People are willing to do anything and say just about anything to come to the U.S.”

Despite months of fanfare and repeated endorsements from Trump and senior officials, no specific legal authority or statutory mechanism has been outlined publicly that would allow the U.S. government to exchange money for citizenship through a program like the Gold Card.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.