In 2016, Trump was elected on a #GOP platform that advocated "the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state." [*]
After the Republicans took both houses of Congress and the Presidency, Mitch McConnell denounced proposals for #PuertoRico statehood as "full bore socialism."
[*] "Republican Platform 2016,"
p.30 https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL[1]-ben_1468872234.pdf