Shows how fucking stupid they are..... They are not running it even now!

US could run Venezuela for years, Trump says

“We will rebuild it in a very profitable way,” he said in an interview with The New York Times.

By Gregory Svirnovskiy

The U.S. government may head up Venezuela for years, President Donald Trump told The New York Times in an Oval Office interview Wednesday, as the White House works to sell its plans for the future of the country after a successful operation to capture Nicolás Maduro in Caracas over the weekend.

On the agenda, Trump said, is funneling sales of oil into meaningful development in Venezuela.

“We will rebuild it in a very profitable way,” Trump told the Times in the interview, which was published Thursday morning. “We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil. We’re getting oil prices down, and we’re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need.”

In the interview, Trump said “only time will tell” how long the administration would oversee Venezuela. But when asked for a time frame — three months, six months, a year or longer — Trump replied “I would say much longer.”

American forces captured Maduro on Saturday and brought him to the U.S., where he faces narco-terrorism charges. In the days since, the administration has been in touch with interim leader Delcy Rodríguez to plan what will come next for the oil-rich South American country.

Venezuela is far from the only Caribbean country on the president’s mind, as Trump pushes what he called the “Donroe Doctrine,” a play on the Monroe Doctrine that declares the U.S. as the dominant power in the hemisphere.

Trump on Wednesday spoke with Colombian President Gustavo Petro and invited him to the White House, appearing to cool tensions between the two leaders that have spiked since the Venezuela strike. The call took place with The New York Times reporters in the Oval Office, the paper reported, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.

Trump on Sunday suggested Colombia could be next on his agenda. Petro had remained defiant on social media, urging Colombians to “defend our national sovereignty” and defending his government’s role in prosecuting international drug trafficking in several posts on X.

Petro, the president wrote on Truth Social, “called to explain the situation of drugs and other disagreements that we have had.”

“I appreciated his call and tone, and look forward to meeting him in the near future,” Trump said.