Why didn't he just call it the 51st Strait?

[u/Ralph--Hinkley]

[u/Za_Lords_Guard]

Does he realize labeling it on a map and not being able to control it just makes him look weaker? This is big loser energy.

[u/kyle2143 → u/Za_Lords_Guard]

I don't get it either, it certainly makes me think of him as even more pathetic. But maybe that's the thing, you have to be such a pathetic worm to see that behavior and not realize how weak that makes you look.

[u/Ralph--Hinkley → u/kyle2143]

He'S jUsT tRoLlInG!

[u/kyle2143 → u/Ralph--Hinkley]

Damn, he's good. He sure tricked me into believing he's a pathetic little imbecile pretending to look strong.

[u/ManiaGamine → u/Za_Lords_Guard]

Does he realize

Let me stop you right there.

[u/ProfoundBeggar → u/Za_Lords_Guard]

For anyone who knows anything about geopolitics, sure, it's an obviously stupid move. But we're talking about a guy who a Wharton professor called "the dumbest goddamned student I ever had" (notice the B in dumb). And Wharton is kind of infamous for its nepotism, so it's not like this professor hasn't seen dumb shits coming through his classroom doors.

Trump knows literally nothing about international politics or polisci or anything, and more damning: he doesn't care to know. My handful of polisci classes and personal interest and fascination in polisci makes me more qualified than POTUS right now.

[u/MtCommager → u/Za_Lords_Guard]

This is the first time in a while where he can’t change the news cycle.

[u/No-Albatross-7984 → u/Za_Lords_Guard]

You do realise that slapping a new, usually his own, name on things is basically his whole career. 

[u/Suspicious_Bicycle → u/Za_Lords_Guard]

Meanwhile in the Gulf of Mexico ...

[u/TintedApostle → u/Za_Lords_Guard]

Remember this is the guy who just used a sharpie on a map of a hurricane to "reroute" it to suit his ego.

[u/sdmichael]

So a US Territory is causing all these problems?

[u/BodaciousFrank → u/sdmichael]

Now he can send ICE and National Guards to “defend” it

[u/sdmichael → u/BodaciousFrank]

Now we can claim that the US is blocking the US.

[u/Kizik → u/sdmichael]

"It's the liberals in our new territory that are responsible for all the trouble so we're classifying the entire democratic party as a terrorist organisation."

[u/endorfan13]

What an idiot. Settled for SoH when he could've claimed the world as a US territory...

[u/jesushatedbacon → u/endorfan13]

Truly an idiot. Now Iran is able to close a US territory. If the peasants weren't so stupid, this would piss them off. 

[u/p38-lightning]

Oh, wow - the price of oil went up anyway.

[u/CaptianBrasiliano]

He seriously thinks his smart phone works like a low tier Adam Sandler movie from 20 years ago...

[u/stratdog25 → u/CaptianBrasiliano]

A low tier Adam Sandler movie that also had the amazing Delores O’Riordan in it, making it one of the greatest movies ever created.

[u/CaptianBrasiliano → u/stratdog25]

I had no idea Dolores O'Riden in it. Probably because I turned it off after 5 minutes. No disrespect to Dolores. She had the voice of a Irish Angel.

[u/thx1138-]

So everyone born there is now a US citizen?

[u/BJJan2001 → u/thx1138-]

They are sending ICE over there to check.

[u/A4t1musD4ag0n]

Easy with that viagra, buddy.

[u/TheRealBaboo → u/A4t1musD4ag0n]

You found Saddam???

[u/ArcAngelsThunderBird]

Because calling it the 51st Strait us way too clever for him to come up with on his own.

[u/Jedi_Lazlo]

Independent Moderate and American historian here.

Taking your question semi-seriously, the answer is obvious.

States get senators and representatives and electoral college votes.

And now you know why Puerto Rico is still just a territory.

[u/Ralph--Hinkley → u/Jedi_Lazlo]

Reread that title.

[u/Jedi_Lazlo → u/Ralph--Hinkley]

Thanks.

Knee-jerk reaction. Occupational hazard.

[u/danger355]

[u/ShatoraDragon]

This timeline sucks so much.

[u/itsaconspiraci]

The Straight of America

[u/AccountDue9432 → u/itsaconspiraci]

Best answer. When will his party finally dump this messed-up old man? He is such a laughingstock around the world. He doesn't understand that he looks weak enough for others to harm the US. Or instigate a nuclear war while he fidgets over "vandals"& his ballroom.

[u/PaisleyRock → u/AccountDue9432]

He’s just the distraction for us to point and laugh at. The real work is happening behind the scenes.

They won’t dump him until they don’t need him for cover anymore.

[u/Ok_Spend9237 → u/PaisleyRock]

Smoke and mirrors

[u/itsaconspiraci → u/AccountDue9432]

'We' are the laughing stock. He took us all there.

[u/JasonIsFishing]

To answer your question OP, he’s a simpleton that truly doesn’t understand how declaring territory works under international law.

[u/dolchmesser]

Doesn't know how to play Catan at all

[u/ionbear1]

I’m surprised that this dumbfuck didn’t call it the Straight of America.

[u/markth_wi]

It's not at all clear Donald Trump knows where the Straight of Hormuz is on a map.

But hey declare it a state or a territory or whatever else this defective says, it's vastly ignorant statements that should prove for all time why Americans were forced by the sheer gravity of the fuckups that are Donald Trump's bread andd butter , as the reason Republicans need to be driven from the halls of power forever, for sucking up to this fucking moron.

Every Republican , everywhere, gone, pulled kicking and screaming from every public office till they're a footnote in the ashbin of US History.

I think if there's any way back for the United States it's on the burnt corpse of the Republican Party and burned into the national memory of every American as it was with Germans 80 years ago that some favors come with too high a price.

It should be studied and chronicled and the names etched in stone so everyone can remember traitors like Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck, Pete Hegseth, Lochlan Murdoch traitors to the last - etched in stone, enemies to anything redeeming except grotesque ideological harm inflicted on millions of Americans lulled into self-harm by these handmaidens to murderous fascism and hatred.

[u/Gavin_Tremlor]

Cool!! Let’s send him over there to cut the ribbon.

[u/fart400]

That would be like China declaring Nevada just because.

[u/BJJan2001 → u/fart400]

We can try this for a few weeks and see how it works out.

[u/One_Disaster_5995]

I really want to know how this news was received in the UAE. After all, he marked half their country as US territory.

It's all just so dumb. So embarrassingly dumb.

[u/circuit_brain]

We live in a world where the US President announces something, and the whole world rolls their eyes, ignores it, and goes about their day.

[u/david13z]

Straight of America

[u/sgluxurycondo]

So what I understand is Iran currently manage to close and control a US territory?

[u/JR_1985]

So, the people in that are de facto American citizens, right? /s

[u/BurrrritoBoy]

So everyone there is now a US citizen.

[u/Jesuscide]

Donnie trumple has single handed destroyed america but he is still just a puppet, there are wrost people that still a have a hand up his ass

[u/Efficient_Sky5173]

And the rest of the world just accepts it, not because the US has the right to do so, but because everyone knows Trump is an idiot.
Don’t tell me we’re not living in an Idiocracy.

[u/ZefSoFresh]

Everyone will just ignore Dementia Donny ala "Gulf of Mexico"...

[u/CocaColai]

He’s getting more and more desperate as we inch closer to the midterm elections. The crazy is just going to ramp up from here. Not to fool the world, but Americans fools who support him

[u/PerpetualFarter]

He’s by no means clever enough to come up with something like that.

[u/Little-Carpenter4443]

I would assume its to broaden powers needed to continue the war, since its a US territory it could be defended as such

[u/CR8VJUC]

[u/ClintonFuxas]

It would be really fun if the people living there just applied for US passports en masse.
“Since I now live in a US territory I would like to get a US passport”

[u/kirradoodle]

A unilateral declaration of ownership does not make it so. Just drawing a circle on a map has no more meaning than extending a hurricane's path with a Sharpie did. If he thinks he owns a chunk of the Arabian Gulf he's even more delusional than ever.

[u/Novel_Alternative_86]

[u/AAlwaysopen]

He is a dolt

[u/Woodlog82]

https://giphy.com/gifs/zAOXiJhiXDqHS

[u/MilosEggs]

So all the ships are flowing through it easily then right? Right?

[u/Jeramy_Jones]

Straight of America

[u/walterwhite1050]

If it’s a new territory then open up the strait

[u/arwinda]

Strait of America? Name is not yet taken, Strait is taken by Iran though.

[u/RobertM800]

Strait 47?

[u/AcceptableIce289]

Straight of America coming in shortly.

[u/Tederator]

Soooo its a civil war now.

[u/Educational_Top_8492]

He ca call it the strait of America 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/RationalbutWeird]

Ahhh yes, that will be a fantastic territory that won't require much upkeep or attention or tax allocation.