Donald Trump: “We’ll Run Venezuela” and Take the Oil

After U.S. special forces abducted the Venezuelan president, Donald Trump announced his administration will now “run the country” and “take back the oil.” He and Marco Rubio also suggested regime change in Cuba. Watch what they said.

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“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition, because we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in,” declared Donald Trump, President of the United States.

“And it has to be judicious, because that’s what we’re all about,” he added.

“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in,” Trump continued.

“We’re going to take back the oil that, frankly, we should have taken back a long time ago. A lot of money is coming out of the ground,” he said.

“We’ll be selling large amounts of oil to other countries, many of whom are using it now, but I would say many more will come,” the president stated.

“And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so. We were prepared to do a second wave,” Trump warned.

“The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a lot,” he said later.

“By a real lot. They now call it the Donroe document. I don’t know, it’s the Monroe Doctrine. We sort of forgot about it. It was very important, but we forgot about it. We don’t forget about it anymore,” Trump remarked.

Asked whether this was a message for Cuba and President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the U.S. president responded, “Well, Cuba is an interesting case. Cuba, as you know, is not doing very well right now.”

“I think Cuba is going to be something we will end up talking about,” he added.

“If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least a little bit,” said Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State.

“Well, the president already announced a week ago that anything that’s sanctioned, it’s sanctioned oil, it’s not going to be allowed to get there. That’s preexisting,” Rubio explained.

“The answer is yes. Yes,” Trump replied when pressed further.

Asked about the whereabouts of opposition leader María Corina Machado and whether there had been any contact with her, the president said, “No, we haven’t. I haven’t.”

“It would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country,” Trump stated.

“She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect,” he concluded.