Posted on 01/03/2026 9:22:56 AM PST by DFG
President Donald Trump said during a Saturday press conference that the United States would “run” Venezuela until a “judicious” transition could take place in the country.
Trump announced in a Saturday morning post to Truth Social that U.S. military forces carried out a law enforcement operation capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas early Saturday morning. During his press conference later that day, Trump said that the United States would also seek to repair the infrastructure of Venezuela’s oil industry.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So, we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years,” Trump said. “So, we are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition, and it has to be judicious because that’s what we’re all about.”
“We want peace, liberty and justice for the great people of Venezuela and that includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the United States and want to go back to their country. It’s their homeland,” Trump continued.
Many Congressional Democrats accused Trump of illegally engaging in a “regime change” operation. Trump said that Venezuela could be “making money” once its infrastructure was repaired.
“We’re there now and what people don’t understand, but they understand as I say this, we’re there now, but we’re going to stay until such time as the proper transition can take place,” Trump said during the press conference. “So we’re going to stay until such time we’re going to run it essentially until such time as a proper transition can take place.”
“As everyone knows the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust for a long period of time. They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they could have been pumping and what could have taken place,” Trump continued. “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country.”
Well, at least they’re not Muslims. That alone makes it 10X easier.
Do Commiefornia next!
Venezuela’s Silver vaults were emptied just hours before the strikes.
Russia got their cut.
Chicoms got their cut.
US gets the oil.
Puerto Rico aint going to be our 51 st State Venezuela is
The USA now has all the venusala infrastructure that ran the election fraud in our and 71 other countries.
The USA now has the info of compromised politicians all over America.
This is the thread that will unravel and imprison the deep state
Martial law not now needed.
This is the king pin to all the fraud, crime and treason.
This was a master stroke in the nick of time to save our Republic and the freedom of the citizens of Central and South America.
Our hemisphere is now in much better shape than yesterday.
The left and media and un and Europe and China are all going to spew their poison atvolume 11.
Running the country drives the criminals out since they can’t take the proceeds of the economy.
The reason Iraq had a civil war was oil proceeds were turned over to the Iraqis prematurely. So they had a civil war over the proceeds.
I’m a big Trump supporter, but I think running the country is a huge mistake. Let the Venezuelan people take over now. There is little need or benefit for the US to try and manage the country.
We liberated them.
It’s our oil now.
No worries though, we’ll cut them in...
“The USA now has all the Venezuela infrastructure that ran the election fraud in our and 71 other countries”
Hmmmm, hopefully it will expose Mamdani’s recent fraudulent election.
I really don’t want to see it that way. I would rather let them run things and perhaps, in return, they can give us more favorable terms on the oil from Lake Maracaibo.
Marco Rubio, el president of Venezuela
I didn’t vote for this!
It’s a bonus.
Oh boy! Nation building time. We ought to get out for less than a cool trillion. The oil company will get their contracts, Jared Kushner will get a cut, and we’re gonna have to do a lot of nation building.
Invading a country is like unprotected sex with a stripper. Great fun till you knock her up and you’re looking at 18 years of child support.
Their last election was stolen.
Who do you suggest we put in charge?
This needs time to be sorted out.
Monroe Doctrine MAGA
There’ll be no insurgency or “hearts and minds” campaign, so no worries. Trump isn’t Bush
You belong on du , Marxist loving scum.
AMERICA! F____ YEAH!
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