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a lot of puerto ricans don’t want statehood

Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths is my favorite version of this.

And also get to vote and have representation in the house and senate?

Well, they are already arresting and deporting US citizens, so...

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

To be fair, "he fucked...", but probably isnt doing it now. Probably?

In the medieval or classical age he would have been served a poison chalice long ago

...born just in time to be on television.

Come on, now, if you really think his ideal is "warlord", you've been paying more attention to what conservatives fantasize than who he actually is. Trump is a theater kid. An Andrew Lloyd Webber stan. He has the soundtrack to Cats on hand at all times. His favorite part of the presidency is that he gets to be on TV whenever he so chooses.

I would pay good money to see Donald Trump direct a battle, he's not one for tactics, or subtlety, or contingency plans.

What a moron. He really is the worst president in American history

As a Canadian, I'm offended. Two-timing jerk, I thought we were the 51st state. /s

As many as they need to get a 51st 51st state.

We are getting ChatGPT to count.

They need this carefully crafted image in the media of a stupid and crazy maniac.
His adversaries can underestimate him and he can get out of difficult questions simply by talking gibberish.
More importantly:
In the short term he's president he can act like a loose cannon, make wild moves that wouldn't be possible under a rational president.
Even against partner vassal countries.
And in 2 years they can blame it all on him, of course they will not (be able to) change the beneficial things for the powers behind the curtain.
The next face will definitely apologize for stealing oil from Venezuela, etc but explain the situation is changed now, contracts with oil companies signed and more excuses to keep this situation in place.

Every 3rd rate celebrity has people to manage their many social media accounts.
Do people actually believe he's coming up with all the crazy tweets or messages?
The 'I have all the cards' one is obvious.
They chose this game specifically.
As if there's nobody in his media team that knows how to play UNO and would let it pass.
I am not buying the act.

I dunno, maybe because he's the chief executive of the US federal government?

The same thing he distracts from every night, Pinky. The fact that he's in the Epstein files.

I swear that his time with Venezuela didn't mean anything. It was just real quick, in and out. It was just his first land grab. Ya know to get it out of the way.

The next one will be better. He'll take his time, light candles, and make it nice.

Only place on Earth that would cheer the arrival of a 7.25 USD minimum wage

Venezuelan minimum wage for the US.

He can barely speak it.

Making Venezuela a state means they could travel freely throughout the US, without restrictions. Tens of millions of them. It's the dumbest thing this guy has said in a while really (maybe,) because as you say, his base would reject that strongly based on the mass migration.

It’s already far too late. Even if it happens tomorrow it wasn’t early enough.

I mean even pragmatically there's literally no reason to do this. Not having to do that is the whole reason neocolonialism is a thing, and that's a game the US are already masters at. Really it's just the dementia again.

It wouldn't be 'their' economy then would it?
How about americans stop sanctioning them (and other countries) and stop stealing their resources,