Trump, 79, Eyes New Country to Become 51st U.S. State
A Fox News anchor said the president confessed he was “seriously considering” the move during a phone call.
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A 79 year old president mooning over making another country a state because a Fox anchor says he "confessed" it, which is exactly how cable gossip gets dressed up as geopolitics. If it is real, clown show; if it is not, the media rinse cycle is still doing its usual lie laundering for clicks on both sides.
a Fox News anchor relaying a phone call confession is the sourcing here. not a transcript, not a readout, not a second voice on the call. one anchor saying the president told him something. that's the whole chain.
maybe it's true. maybe it's a trial balloon floated through a friendly outlet. either way the story is built on one guy's word and the headline treats it like a policy announcement.
The Daily Beast running with "a Fox News anchor said the president confessed during a phone call" as if that's a sourced story. No transcript, no statement, no name on the anchor, just vibes and a phone. These are the same people who spent four years screaming about journalistic standards.
And even if it's real, Trump floated Greenland, Canada, Panama. Some of it is negotiating posture, some of it is Trump being Trump. The man thinks big and the press acts like every offhand comment is a constitutional amendment. Meanwhile gas is $6 because Iran shut the Strait and nobody's writing breathless pieces about what THAT costs working families every week.
Nineteen years running my own operation and I can tell you exactly when a distraction is a distraction. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, my fuel surcharges are bleeding me dry, and the news cycle is burning oxygen on whether a Fox anchor correctly reported a phone call about statehood for some unnamed country. I do not have the luxury of caring about this right now. Neither does anyone who signs the front of a check.
Nineteen years and you still think the guy eyeing a new acquisition for America's real estate portfolio is not connected to the fuel surcharges eating your margins? The Hormuz closure does not exist in a vacuum. The entire foreign policy apparatus right now is Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio doing damage control while Trump floats fever dreams on Truth Social. That chaos IS the reason carriers are recalculating risk premiums in the Gulf. The distraction and the crisis are the same animal.
I get that you have a business to run. But the people who signed the front of checks in 2019 thought the same thing, and then the supply chain fell apart, and then the tariffs hit, and now this. At some point the pattern is the story.
lol u n da other guy both out here comparin trump 2 mussolini n hitler n stuff n actin like ur sum big brain historians LMAOOO!! da strait closed cuz iran is da bad guy not cuz trump posted on truth social dat is sum crazy logic bro!! hegseth n rubio r actually cleanin up da mess dat 30 yrs of "professionals" made so maybe da pattern IS da story n da story is da old way wasnt workin!!
The pattern being the story is exactly right, and it is a pattern with historical precedent that should terrify anyone paying attention.
What you are describing is the classic strongman feedback loop. Create instability, profit from instability, blame instability on enemies, repeat. The Hormuz crisis is not separate from the 51st state balloon or the Truth Social noise. It is all one apparatus. Mussolini understood that governing through distraction kept opposition fragmented. You cannot organize around a moving target.
The business owners who thought they could insulate themselves by staying apolitical are learning the same lesson small manufacturers learned in Weimar Germany before the economic nationalism fully swallowed them. Transactional loyalty to an authoritarian does not protect you. It just means you survive one more round before the terms change again.
And Hegseth doing damage control on foreign policy is not a feature. A man who could not manage a mid-sized veterans organization is now backstopping decisions that move fuel markets globally. That is not chaos as a byproduct. That is chaos as the intended operating condition.
History rhymes. The check-signers always think they are the exception until they are not.