President Donald Trump seemed deranged enough when he responded online to Venezuela’s 3-2 victory over the United States in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday.

“STATEHOOD!!!” he wrote.

He seemed even crazier when you remember that while fear-mongering his way to a second term, he repeated a groundless charge that Venezuela was emptying its prisons and psychiatric facilities into the United States.

Back in office, he demanded that Venezuela take back these supposed “worst of the worst.”

“We want Venezuela to immediately accept all of the prisoners, and people from mental institutions, which includes the Worst in the World Insane Asylums, that Venezuelan ‘Leadership’ has forced into the USA,” Trump posted on Sept. 20 of last year.

“GET THEM THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, RIGHT NOW OR THE PRICE YOU PAY WILL BE INCALCULABLE!” the president continued.

It is worth noting that of the 240 Venezuelans the U.S. already had deported without due process to the horrific CECOT prison in El Salvador, only 36 had a criminal record.

Nine, or just 4 percent of the supposed “worst of the worst,” had been charged with a violent crime.

However many of these purported monsters actually exist, statehood would make all of them American citizens, along with the roughly 28 million people who live there. That would include the ones in its prisons and psychiatric........

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