Trump 'Seriously Considering Making Venezuela the 51st State,' Fox News Reports

[LilElf70]

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-seriously-considering-making-venezuela-the-51st-state-fox-news-reports/

Toopid is as toopid does.

Unbelievable.

[Prairie Gates]

1. Is that how it works

Trump announces something?

[Bluetus]

15. Of course not. He also has to post it on Truth Social before it is official

[Ocelot II]

2. What happened to Canada and Greenland?

[Irish_Dem]

16. They all merge into one 51st state.

VenCanGreenland.

[KentuckyWoman]

26. Snort laughed

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Oh please. One lie after another. I can't wait until he is gone!!!

[Whip-poor-will]

4. delusional dementia

He's F#@*ing nuts

[rampartd]

5. Article IV, Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

trump would say "i am a republican form of government" and i could not disagree.

[Johonny]

6. The word Seriously doing a lot of heavy work there

[newdeal2]

13. For a second I thought they used the word "thinking"

Which would be a new one for him.

Considering sounds equally unlikely with Trump though.

[SSJVegeta]

7. If he gets his way it might become an actual territory

But how would MAGA feel about automatically making all those Venezuelans he deported US citizens?

[LilElf70]

20. He hasn't

even thought that far yet.

[Initech]

8. That's not how our constitution works. We do not have a king who decrees things.

Fuck you Donny!

[calimary]

9. Fox "News" "Reports".

[Mister Ed]

10. Fat chance. Venezuelans are brown-ish, and they speak Spanish.

Can't have any of that in 'Murka.

Unless maybe they were then "deported" somewhere else...

[ananda]

11. Trump just wants something to take over and own.

That's his agenda in every aspect of his life.

[ColoringFool]

21. 100%. Insightful.

[struggle4progress]

29. He plans to deport the current Venezuelans to Sudan

because we need lebensraum

[Vinca]

12. I've got a better idea. Let's give the red states to Venezuela.

[GreenWave]

17. Make them hike in from Amazonas,. Show us how tough they are.

[IcyPeas]

14. Hey Pedo, go take care of the existing 50 states first.

[LilElf70]

19. So far,

He has taken little interested in us. Damn, remember all those lies he campaigned on and how he was going to make America First? The more I think about that lie in particular, the more often I get that reflex.

[The Madcap]

18. We already have too many states.

It would just make this country into even more of a "hodgepodge. "

[RT Atlanta]

22. ruling by 'edict' and 'declarations' now?

The republican ass-lickers in congress have absolutely, unequivocally failed in their duties and sworn oath to the Constitution.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:5%20section:3331%20edition:prelim)

"I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

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to whom are the republicans bearing 'true faith and allegiance?'

support and defend the Constitution also includes affirming and 3 co-equal branches of government (Articles 1-3).

[LudwigPastorius]

23. On the bright side,...

all of Trump's worrying about his "legacy" might mean he really is about to fuck off this mortal coil soon.

[Norrrm]

24. Making them citizens.

[themaguffin]

25. LOL like it's his decision

[DFW]

28. Well, he's certainly not going to ask the Venezuelans

First of all, he doesn’t speak Spanish, and besides, they might say no.

[Bayard]

27. Which would mean taking on their debt, and all their other problems

But, hey--its just OUR money.

He is so jones-ing to add another state to the U.S.....Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba. How about making Puerto Rico one first?

[Polybius]

30. Cool

Two more Democratic Senators.