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.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. MaddowBlog-Trump adds yet another foreign country to his list of possible new U.S. states

The point isn’t that Venezuela is poised to become a state. Rather, this is about the president changing the nature of a broader debate.

Link to tweet

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-adds-yet-another-foreign-country-to-his-list-of-possible-new-u-s-states

Earlier this year, on the first anniversary of his second inaugural, Donald Trump posted an item to his social media platform that raised eyebrows here and abroad. It showed the Republican president in the Oval Office alongside a large image showing much of the Western Hemisphere, including the entirety of Canada and Greenland covered in American flags, as if they were part of the United States.

But those who looked closely might have noticed that there was another country, farther down in the image, that was also covered in the red, white and blue: Venezuela, which Trump had bombed two weeks earlier.

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-20T06:09:46.203Z

.....This week, he made clear that the idea remains on his mind. USA Today reported:

More than five months after the United States captured now-former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has again suggested that his administration would try to annex the oil-rich country.

The president told Fox News correspondent John Roberts on Monday, May 11, that he was now “seriously considering a move to make Venezuela the 51st state.”

His serious considerations notwithstanding, there’s no reason whatsoever to think this is likely to happen. Indeed, Delcy Rodríguez, the acting leader of Venezuela, wasted little time in pushing back against Trump’s reported comments, telling reporters that Venezuela would “never” consider the idea of statehood because the country loves its independence and would continue to defend it.....

Since getting elected to a second term, Trump has repeatedly talked about trying to make Canada the 51st state. There was related talk about making Greenland a state, too. Now, evidently, the incumbent American president has related ambitions about Venezuela.

Those who hear such talk and shrug it off as nonsense are right to be skeptical, but I’m struck by the fact that in GOP circles, it’s not uncommon to hear Republicans condemn Democratic talk about making the District of Columbia and/or Puerto Rico states. Indeed, just last week, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin mentioned this during an on-air interview as if it were part of his own personal nightmare.

And that’s precisely why I’m interested in Trump’s incessant talk about adding to the United States: The more the president focuses on this, the more this becomes less of a debate about whether to add new states and more about which states to add.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

32. trump is nuts

[Jersey Devil]

33. He could combine it with Cuba and Puerto Rico, maybe even Greenland

Green Cubaricozuela. It has a nice ring to it.

[MineralMan]

34. Theyll have to wait.

It's sill Canada's time in Trump's barrel.