Fox News reporter John Roberts reported on Monday, May 11, with some surprise, that U.S. President Donald Trump had commented to him in a Monday morning conversation, “John, I just want to tell you. I’m very serious about this. I’m serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state.” The country has $40 trillion in oil and “Venezuela loves Trump,” he claimed.
This is looking like the beginning of a drumbeat, Monday’s remarks being a stronger threat than a mid-March Truth Social post suggesting that since “good things are happening to Venezuela lately.… Statehood, #51, Anyone?”
No White House press spokesman rejected the President’s talk of annexing this South American nation and its 28.6 million people—which, we note, except for the tiny but rich elite who cuddle up to President Trump, by and large speak only Spanish. A coyly smiling White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Fox News: “This is a President who is famous for never accepting the status quo…. I won’t get ahead of the President on this,” but working with interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, things are “going incredibly well.” White House Assistant Press Secretary Olivia Whales told USA Today likewise, that the President has said that “relations between Venezuela and the United States have been extraordinary. Oil is starting to flow, and large amounts of money, unseen for many years, will soon be helping the great people of Venezuela.”
