If anything, Trump is understating the end goal. The US will eventually run this hemisphere. South America will fall like dominoes.
Yes, he tends to stake a huge claim, then, if he doesn’t win at that point, it becomes a strong negotiating position leading to an acceptable outcome.
The concept of Rubio and a small crew of wonks waltzing back in to Venezuela, say, in the middle of next week, hip checking the Venezuela federalis to one side, and announcing to the assembled press that we will now begin “running” Venezuela, without ever having conquered it? That has to be the mother of all huge claims staked by PDJT!