tacoplease@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 29 days agoTrump 'considering' Venezuela as 51st state, acting president respondswww.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoYou assume by state he means state and not territory. Because let’s be honest, they wouldn’t get any representation at the federal level.
minus-squarepanthera_@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoLook at the title of the post. It says Trump is ‘considering’ Venezuela as 51st state.
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoYou give him too much credit to understand what statehood means when compared to making it a territory. He is also only considering it to keep the news focused away from the Epstine files, and everything else he is actually doing.
You assume by state he means state and not territory. Because let’s be honest, they wouldn’t get any representation at the federal level.
Look at the title of the post. It says Trump is ‘considering’ Venezuela as 51st state.
You give him too much credit to understand what statehood means when compared to making it a territory.
He is also only considering it to keep the news focused away from the Epstine files, and everything else he is actually doing.