Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
Q: Is it possible that the US ends up administering Venezuela for years?TRUMP: Well, you know, it won't cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial
FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Anybody who believes Trump’s account of what someone told him in a conversation is nuts. Quite apart from being a compulsive liar, Trump never listens to what other people are saying to him. He simply waits for them to pause so he can rant some more about whatever bee he has in his bonnet that day. He probably spent 10 minutes complaining to Rodriguez about the state of the Kennedy Center before he restored it.
I did appreciate the reference to World War 2. Watching a few helicopters fly over Caracas with occasional explosions, I couldn’t help thinking how much it resembed D-Day, or the final Russian assault on Berlin.
@Ken_L: Yeah, but “not witnessed since WWII”??? Oh yeah, that right, Bonespurs was too busy dodging STDs during Vietnam to be up on that war. And too self absorbed to have clear memories of our other military actions of the past 40 years.
Who’s on first…
The most powerful nation on earth has a mad king. If we had a Congress he would be impeached and removed for the good of the nation and the world.
Obviously this will end horribly, there is literally no way it ends well. Zero possibility of anything but an awful outcome.
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The most powerful military in history, commanded by a kayfabe barker who makes Joe Six-Pack look like Socrates.
Anybody who believes Trump’s account of what someone told him in a conversation is nuts. Quite apart from being a compulsive liar, Trump never listens to what other people are saying to him. He simply waits for them to pause so he can rant some more about whatever bee he has in his bonnet that day. He probably spent 10 minutes complaining to Rodriguez about the state of the Kennedy Center before he restored it.
I did appreciate the reference to World War 2. Watching a few helicopters fly over Caracas with occasional explosions, I couldn’t help thinking how much it resembed D-Day, or the final Russian assault on Berlin.
@Ken_L: Yeah, but “not witnessed since WWII”??? Oh yeah, that right, Bonespurs was too busy dodging STDs during Vietnam to be up on that war. And too self absorbed to have clear memories of our other military actions of the past 40 years.