Trump: 'Absolute no' on statehood for Puerto Rico

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Trump: 'Absolute no' on statehood for Puerto Rico
 
By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times - Monday, September 24, 2018

President Trump said Monday that statehood for Puerto Rico is an “absolute no” as long as critics, such as the mayor of San Juan, are in office.

“With the mayor of San Juan as incompetent as she is and as bad as she is, Puerto Rico shouldn’t be talking about statehood until they get some people that really know what they’re doing,” Mr. Trump said in a radio interview with Geraldo Rivera.

He blasted Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of the capital city, as a “horror show” who was “so disrespectful” to military and Federal Emergency Management Agency responders in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which decimated the island a year ago. He accused her and other leaders on the island territory of botching FEMA deliveries.

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/24/donald-trump-absolute-no-on-statehood-for-puerto-r/

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   Did a search, could not find. 

   

[Applewood]

How about "no.  Period."

The US does not need more moochers to support.

[dfwgator]

Puerto Rico should be independent.

[goatprairie]

Puerto Rico should be independent.

They know where their bread ..er...pan is buttered.  Independence boosters in PR only get a tiny percent of the vote in referendums.

[dfwgator]

They know where their bread ..er...pan is buttered.  Independence boosters in PR only get a tiny percent of the vote in referendums.

Not my circus, not my monkeys....Let 'em loose.

[goatprairie]

Not my circus, not my monkeys....Let 'em loose.

I wouldn't lose any sleep. I'm just saying very few PRicans want independence.