• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Someone should’ve reminded him Puerto Rico is an American territory, and its residents are full fledged American citizens. While the island itself gets no electoral college votes, any of its citizens living in one of the 50 states get the same rights and privileges as the rest of us.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A lot of someones did remind him of that after Hurricane Maria, when he loudly bragged about getting on the phone with “the president of Puerto Rico” and was subsequently reminded that that was him.

      Honestly, that’s probably 90% of the reason he even went to Puerto Rico (and threw paper towel rolls at them).