{"id":508398,"date":"2026-05-22T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-president-is-mistaken-governor-of-puerto-rico-responds-to-trumps-stance-on-statehood-for-the-island\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:43:05","slug":"the-president-is-mistaken-governor-of-puerto-rico-responds-to-trumps-stance-on-statehood-for-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/the-president-is-mistaken-governor-of-puerto-rico-responds-to-trumps-stance-on-statehood-for-the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe president is mistaken\u201d: Governor of Puerto Rico responds to Trump&#8217;s stance on statehood for the Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Puerto Rico<\/strong>.- Governor Jenniffer Gonz\u00e1lez Col\u00f3n responded this Thursday to the recent statements by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who again rejected the possibility of Puerto Rico becoming the 51st state of the North American nation.\n\nTrump asserted that the annexation of the Island &#8220;<strong>would be a disaster<\/strong>&#8220;, a position that was criticized by the Puerto Rican president during an interview given to Noticentro, of WAPA TV.\n\n&#8220;**The president is mistaken about that. The reality is that President Reagan himself said it would be beneficial for the United States and for Puerto Rico to become a state,**&#8221; Gonz\u00e1lez Col\u00f3n maintained.\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/ejercito-de-ee-uu-despliega-tropas-desde-puerto-rico-en-medio-de-tension-con-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Army deploys troops from Puerto Rico amid tension with Cuba<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThe governor once again defended statehood as a political status formula for the Island and recalled that several American leaders have historically supported that alternative.\n\nTrump&#8217;s expressions revive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@deultimominutotv\/videos\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@deultimominutotv\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the <\/a>debate about the political future, a topic that continues to generate divisions both on the Island and in political sectors of the United States.\n\nSource: <strong>El Vocero<\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico.- Governor Jenniffer Gonz\u00e1lez Col\u00f3n responded this Thursday to the recent statements by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who again rejected the possibility of Puerto Rico becoming the 51st state of the North American nation. Trump asserted that the annexation of the Island &#8220;would be a disaster&#8220;, a position that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-28fY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}