Ever so often, the goofy side of the Donald Trump administration — where he’s constructing ludicrous ballrooms or writing mean captions beneath his predecessor’s presidential portraits — gives way to his more insidious agendas. In one of his latest Truth Social posts and a subsequent interview, Trump all but confirmed that he is looking to ensure a regime change in Venezuela in order to consolidate its vast oil reserves.
In the administration’s recent profile, where they were portrayed in an unflattering manner in more ways than one, Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, confirmed that the claim Venezuela is a thorn in their side because of drug trafficking was a misnomer. Wiles said of their plan, “He wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.”
