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A quick clarification before the letter: I couldn’t find evidence that Micronesia or the Marshall Islands have actually been seized or brought under formal U.S. control. What happened is that on the night of Thursday, August 28, 2026, Trump posted an image on Truth Social titled “U.S. Territories” that grouped the flags of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands — both independent, UN-member nations — alongside real U.S. territories, and separately labeled the Strait of Hormuz “new.” The White House hasn’t explained the post. Separately, congressional testimony this year confirmed the administration is expanding U.S. military and intelligence footprint in the Compact states. I’ve written the letter around those verified facts rather than a completed takeover, since that’s what the record actually supports — it’s still plenty alarming on its own. Why Is the President Publicly Claiming Sovereign Pacific Nations as U.S. Territory? I am asking you to demand immediate clarification and accountability after the president publicly labeled two independent, UN-member nations as U.S. territories. On the night of August 28, 2026, the president posted an image on Truth Social titled “U.S. Territories” that grouped the flags of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands alongside actual U.S. territories like Guam and Puerto Rico, and labeled the Strait of Hormuz “new.” Both Pacific nations are sovereign states that ended U.S. trusteeship decades ago — the Marshall Islands in 1979, Micronesia in 1990 — and remain connected to the U.S. only through the Compact of Free Association, a treaty that explicitly preserves their independence. This fits a pattern: in his second term, the president has also floated annexing Greenland, making Venezuela “the 51st state,” and claiming “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz. Congressional testimony this year confirmed the administration is simultaneously expanding military and intelligence operations across the Compact states — building radar stations in Palau, testing missiles in the Marshall Islands — even as it leaves key diplomatic posts with these countries unstaffed. This isn’t just partisan alarm; Pacific policy experts across the spectrum have called the post either a dangerous blunder or a genuine threat, and it jeopardizes relationships built over eighty years. I don’t want my country represented as one that treats an ally’s sovereignty as negotiable on a whim. It undermines what we claim to stand for internationally and puts real people’s trust in us at risk. I am asking you to: • Demand the White House publicly clarify the post and reaffirm the Compact of Free Association’s guarantee of Micronesian and Marshall Islands sovereignty • Hold hearings on the military buildup in Compact states, since any change to their status requires congressional and treaty action, not presidential social media posts • Introduce a resolution affirming that the United States will not violate the UN Charter’s prohibition on threatening a member state’s territorial integrity No president has the constitutional authority to redraw the map with a Truth Social post. Thank you for standing up for that principle.