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In May 2020, Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez announced the scheduling of a plebiscite in November on the issue of whether that U.S. territory should become a state. However, such a possibility remains unlikely during the presidency of Donald Trump, who has previously expressed that he is an absolute no on Puerto Rican statehood. As The Washington Post observed, Trump has long been feuding with that territory's government officials, whom he has branded as corrupt and incompetent: These events led to the circulation of a purported tweet from Trump in which he excoriated Governor Vázquez as incompetent, and disparaged Puerto Rico as a small island filled with savages, adding that There are more chances of me moving to North Korea than Puerto Rico becoming a state: This was not an authentic Trump tweet, however: It does not appear in the timeline of his Twitter account, nor was it recorded by any of the several databases that preserve deleted tweets. And if there were any lingering doubts, the watermark for the satirical Puerto Rico Departamento de Memes visible on the tweet image should be a giveaway.
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