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President Donald Trump issued a pointed warning to Venezuela’s new chief on Sunday, suggesting extreme penalties if she continues to withstand U.S. calls for following the American-led operation that resulted within the seize of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
In an interview with The Atlantic, Trump mentioned Delcy Rodríguez would “pay a really massive value, most likely larger than Maduro” if she fails to “do what’s proper,” including that his administration wouldn’t tolerate what he described as her defiant rejection of the U.S. intervention.
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A side-by-side picture of President Donald Trump and Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. (Joe Raedle/Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Photos)
Defending that method, Trump mentioned, “Rebuilding there and regime change, something you wish to name it, is best than what you could have proper now. Can’t get any worse,” he added.
The White Home didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Trump’s remarks adopted a shocking predawn announcement Saturday that U.S. operators had carried out a mission to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse.
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Talking at a information convention at Mar-a-Lago, Trump mentioned a U.S.-appointed workforce would “run Venezuela” till the nation’s political management was stabilized.
He additionally pledged a return of U.S. power funding to the cash-strapped Latin American nation which sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves.
Nicolas Maduro is led in handcuffs by means of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York workplace after his switch to U.S. custody, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (Obtained by Fox Information)
Trump framed his overseas coverage method, in line with The Atlantic, by means of what he described as a modernized model of the Monroe Doctrine, the Nineteenth-century coverage opposing European colonial affect within the Western Hemisphere.
Trump referred to his method because the “Donroe Doctrine.”
President Donald Trump mentioned the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela till the political setting within the nation stabilizes. (Alex Brandon/AP Photograph)
Trump additionally hinted that Venezuela wouldn’t be the final nation to face U.S. stress, elevating the prospect of extra interventions past Latin America.
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For example, he reiterated his long-standing curiosity in Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, a NATO ally.
“We do want Greenland, completely,” Trump instructed the journal, citing U.S. nationwide safety pursuits and strategic location.
