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In an interview with The Atlantic, Donald Trump said rebuilding and regime change in Venezuela "is better than what you have right now."

Donald Trump laid out a stark warning to Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodríguez, telling The Atlantic that “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”

Rodríguez had been serving as Venezuela’s vice president under President Nicolás Maduro, and the country’s supreme court declared that she would immediately assume the role of acting president after U.S. forces captured Maduro and brought him to the U.S.

Trump’s comments mark a shift in rhetoric from a day earlier, when he told reporters that Rodríguez had a “gracious” conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A US official told the paper: “I’ve been watching her career for a long time, so I have some sense of who she is and what she’s about … she’s certainly someone we think we can work at a much more professional level than we were able to do with him [Maduro].” Whether she knew it or not, Rodríguez appears to have been part of Trump’s plan for Venezuela for months.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/latin-america/article/delcy-rodriguez-venezuela-vice-president-maduro-trump-5gdd6fl7n

So basically the left hand has no fucking clue what the right hand is doing. No, scratch that, the right index finger has no idea what the right middle finger is doing.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Trump's handlers have him well under control behind the scenes, but they have to put him in front of cameras and good knows what he'll spit out. Imagine trying to keep up with that.