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Americans have overwhelmingly rejected Donald Trump's repeated threats to swallow up neighboring countries as the 51st state, soundly opposing the absorption of Venezuela, Greenland, and Cuba in an exclusive Daily Mail/JL Partners poll.
Voters were quizzed on Venezuela, Greenland, and Cuba, the three countries Trump has floated annexing to the United States.
Venezuela - the only country Trump has actually attacked to capture President Nicolás Maduro - received the harshest reception, with 60 percent somewhat or strongly opposing making it the 51st state.
Even among Republican voters, just 19 percent expressed support.
Greenland fared better, but voters still rejected statehood by a 20-point margin.
While 42 percent of GOP voters backed annexing the Danish territory, 63 percent of Democrats opposed it.
Cuban statehood was nearly as unpopular as Venezuelan, with 56 percent of all respondents opposing while only 22 percent approved, even as Trump threatens to invade.
The poll of 1,003 registered voters was conducted from May 15 to 18.
US Special Forces Operators during a training mission at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, on May 9, 2023
Venezuela, the country voters least want to absorb, is the one Trump has already moved on, with US forces seizing socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro in a dramatic predawn raid on January 3.
After the country's baseball team defeated Italy in an international baseball tournament in March, Trump wrote 'STATEHOOD, #51, ANYONE?' on Truth Social.
Trump has floated the acquisition of Greenland since 2019, but he has been continuously rebuffed by Denmark, which governs the island territory, and Greenlanders themselves.
The President sparked uproar in January when he declined to rule out using military force to obtain Greenland and threatened to tariff European nations that did not support his intentions before backing off at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The opening of a new US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland's capital, saw protests on Thursday.
Trump has not explicitly called for Cuban statehood, but he has repeatedly floated taking the island as part of his pressure campaign against the Communist regime.
'All my life, I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba. When will the United States do it?' Trump said at an Oval Office press conference in March.
'I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba.'
'Whether I free it, take it, I can do anything I want with it,' he added. 'They're a very weakened nation.'
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