Trump outlined an agreement regarding a mineral rights deal with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, unveiled a $5 million gold immigration card, and signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum countering Chinese influence. Today’s show explains these three big wins.

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"I did not expect this to happen so rapidly," Crowder said.

According to NBC:

Ukraine and the U.S. have outlined an agreement in which they would jointly fund Ukraine’s future security and reconstruction using an investment fund powered by the country’s rare earth minerals, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday.

"This is an ongoing relationship that also serves American interest in Ukrainian sovereignty to a degree," Crowder said.

According to estimates, Ukraine is home to 5 percent of the world's "critical raw materials," including graphite, titanium, lithium, and other elements.

"This reduces our dependence on China," Crowder added. “The United States needs some of this.”

Putin also said he is willing to give access to rare minerals, which may potentially include Russian-occupied Ukraine.

"It gives everyone an incentive to stop the killing and to start the profiting," Crowder said.

Trump also announced the creation of a $5 million gold immigration card. The left is not happy about this.

According to NBC:

Trump floated the idea during an impromptu question-and-answer session at the Oval Office on Tuesday as he signed a series of other new executive orders.

"Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card," he said. "They’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it’s going to be extremely successful.”

"I prefer rich investors as opposed to people who don't benefit the American system," Crowder said. Truth be told, if you are really wealthy there are ways to get into this country right now because we want these people to come here."

The EB-5 visa program, created by Congress in 1990, is available to eligible investors who spend about $1 million on a company that employs at least 10 people. Participation on the program has sharply declined since 2016, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. From fiscal years 2016 through 2021, the government issued about 37,000 EB-5 visas.

The proposed "gold card" would essentially raise the price of admission for foreign investors, Lutnick said, and do away with "fraud" and “nonsense.”

According to the White House, Trump also signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum last week. This memo is “aimed at promoting foreign investment while protecting America’s national security interests, particularly from threats posed by foreign adversaries like the People’s Republic of China.”

China invested $210 billion in the United States from 2005 to 2024.

"Depending on where the investments are made, this absolutely can be a national security threat," Crowder said. ‘The only way China gets a leg up is if we give it to them and we have. That stops now.”