'As long as we get in': Puerto Rican leader hopes Trump will grant statehood

Alternet

Left

Factuality

Ownership

'As long as we get in': Puerto Rican leader hopes Trump will grant statehood

Looking at President Donald Trump’s promises to expand the U.S. by claiming Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, some leaders from Puerto Rico — a US territory — hope to gain statehood, NOTUS reported Tuesday. Trump has said multiple times that Canada, for example, should become a state. “If people wanted to play the game right, it would be 100% certain that they’d become a state,” he said recently. George Laws García, the Puerto Rico Stateh…