President Trump has shaken the globalists to their core by moving to acquire Greenland and retaking control of the Panama Canal. But what about cutting the apron strings to some other US territories?
Since DOGE has been working to drastically reduce indefensible waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money, a lot of other people in DC have been thinking about ways to cut costs and save even more cash. There’s a draft executive order being circulated in the White House and Congress right now that would finally cut the apron strings of Puerto Rico and allow it to become its own sovereign country.
No one is sure where this executive order originated, but it outlines a plan to save the taxpayers $617 billion by declaring Puerto Rico an independent country. Copies of the order have been sent to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Several Republican Members of Congress also have a copy of it and provided it to the Daily Mail, so the proposal is real.
The question is whether President Trump will sign it. He hasn’t really talked about Puerto Rico yet this term.
It would make a lot of sense to finally let Puerto Rico spread its wings and leave the nest. Despite Puerto Ricans being born with US citizenship, they don’t consider themselves American. They have their own distinct culture and language. They send their own separate teams to the Olympics and their own models to beauty pageants. It definitely doesn’t feel like you’re in America if you visit Puerto Rico.
There’s been a strong pro-independence movement in Puerto Rico ever since it became a US territory. They sent teams of terrorists to try to topple the US government in the 1950s.
Two Puerto Rican secessionists tried to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950. They had a big gunfight with the Secret Service as Truman watched out the window of the Blair House in Washington, DC. (The Secret Service won.)
A group of Puerto Rican pro-independence terrorists also staged the only mass shooting that’s ever happened inside the US Capitol. They shot five Members of Congress on the House floor in 1954. Jimmy Carter later commuted their sentences and let them out of prison. (Because of course he did.)
The US government has “officially” sent Ukraine around $150 billion of our tax dollars, although the real figure is probably twice that much. Americans are rightly furious about that. Guess how much of our tax dollars the Biden regime sent to Puerto Rico over the past four years?
$185 billion.
That’s despite the fact that Puerto Rico’s population is only one-tenth the size of Ukraine’s and we’re not fighting a proxy war against Russia using the Puerto Ricans. What the hell is the Puerto Rican government spending that money on? They only have a population of 3 million people!
Compare that to Guam, another US territory. They speak English on Guam and we have a US military base there. The most we’ve ever spent on Guam was $5 billion after a big storm they had there in 2020. They usually receive less than $1 billion. And unlike the Puerto Ricans and Vladimir Zelensky, the people of Guam are grateful for it.
If Trump signs the executive order, Puerto Rico would become an independent nation over the next two years. Starting in 2026, anyone born in Puerto Rico would not have US citizenship. The order also calls for $36 billion per year for the next 20 years to allow Puerto Rico to become financially independent from the US taxpayers.
That would still be $720 billion over 20 years, but it would save us $618 billion in the long run. Puerto Rico is expected to suck approximately $1.3 trillion out of our pockets over the next 50 years. The order would also appoint an administrator of the funds who is not a member of the corrupt Puerto Rican government, so the money wouldn’t just end up in the pockets of politicians like our foreign aid does in every other Latin American country.
The executive order has a blank space on it for President Trump’s signature and it’s dated March 2025. We don’t know yet whether the president will sign it, but multiple members of his Cabinet have copies of the order.
