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Donald Trump on Monday casually floated turning Venezuela into the 51st state.
The presdident’s pondering was reported by Fox News anchor John Roberts, who spoke with Trump on the cellphone Monday. “Just got off the phone with @realDonaldTrump… he told me he is seriously considering a move to make Venezuela the 51st state…,” Roberts wrote on X.
Fox News Reporter Bill Melugin added that Trump likes the thought of including the South American nation to the union because “there is $40 trillion in oil there and ‘Venezuela loves Trump.’”
Venezuela is now the latest international territory or sovereign nation that he has publicly said he wished to change into an American state, following Canada and Greenland.
The nation is being run by Delcy Rodriguez, who grew to become Venezuela’s interim president after Nicolas Maduro was kidnapped from his palace by U.S. troopers in the center of the night time earlier this yr.
During a press convention following the assault in Caracas, Trump told reporters that the U.S. authorities would run Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.”
Critics accused Trump of launching an invasion merely to gain control of the nation’s oil. Just three days after the operation, the president announced that “interim authorities” could be turning over “between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America.”
“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!” he wrote on Truth Social. “I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately. It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States.”
Trump would need Congress and the approval of Venezuelans to get his wish, but he also hasn’t ruled out military intervention in his expansion ambitions before, previously implying boots on the ground operations in Greenland.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy had built up one of the largest fleets in the Caribbean Sea in decades and continues to launch bombing operations against alleged drug-trafficking boats.
Recent statements by Rodriguez is also stoking concerns that the original plan to return Venezuela into a functional democracy has been abandoned. Speaking at the Hague, the interim president could not give a date for elections.
She simply told reporters that elections will happen “some time.”
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