Trump Makes A Wild Claim About Venezuela Becoming 51st State - After A Baseball Game

President Trump has suggested that Venezuela could go nan 51st state, aft nan state defeated Italy astatine nan World Baseball Classic past night.

Throughout his 2nd word successful office, Trump has threatened to return power complete respective different countries and regions, including Greenland and Canada.

The president made nan latest annexation proposal connected Truth Social soon aft Venezuela’s triumph astatine nan WBC.

“Wow!” he exclaimed. “Venezuela defeated Italy tonight, 4-2, successful nan WBC (Baseball!) Semifinal. They are looking really great.

“Good things are happening to Venezuela lately!” he continued. “I wonderment what this magic is each about? STATEHOOD, #51, ANYONE? President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Venezuela’s triumph successful nan semi-final has propelled them to a tense rematch pinch nan United States. The 2 nations faced each different successful 2023, pinch nan United States comfortably beating its opponent.

A focus connected Venezuelan affairs has been a cornerstone of nan U.S.’s overseas argumentation during Trump’s 2nd presidency.

In January, nan United States launched a high-stakes cognition that resulted successful nan seizure of Nicolás Maduro, nan petrostate’s erstwhile president. That followed weeks of airstrikes connected boats allegedly carrying narcotics from Venezuela.

In nan days aft Maduro was captured, Trump announced nan lipid companies would flood finance into Venezuela in bid to modernise nan country’s power sector.

However, successful caller weeks, nan president has turned his attraction to a spiralling situation successful nan Middle East.

The U.S. and Israel launched an onslaught connected Iran connected February 28, sidesplitting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successful nan process.

Trump said that nan attacks were launched pinch nan extremity of achieving regime change successful Iran, but he has besides claimed that nan state was weeks away from processing a atomic weapon.

The value of lipid has besides skyrocketed amid nan conflict. According to GasBuddy, state prices deed $3.68 connected Sunday contempt being arsenic debased arsenic $2.88 successful mid-February.

On Truth Social, Trump bragged that rising gas prices will mean that nan U.S. will “make a batch of money” contempt promising to trim power costs during nan 2024 statesmanlike campaign.

Earlier this year, he caused outrage successful Europe by many times threatening Greenland, which is portion of nan Kingdom of Denmark.

Trump claimed that nan U.S. needed nan island for “national security” reasons. The president made a akin declare astir Canada soon aft taking office, promising to transform it into a “cherished” 51st state.

Although nan wave of his threats against Canada has diminished, he referred to nan country’s existent premier minister, Mark Carney, arsenic nan “future Governor of Canada” connected Truth Social as precocious arsenic past week.