House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that the Trump administration “has no real plan” for the future of Venezuela after the capture and indictment of its leader Nicolás Maduro. “But there’s no real plan that we’ve heard from the Trump administration as to how to ensure that the Venezuelan people will actually get…
The president reminded House Republicans he said “peacefully and patriotically” in his pre-coup rally and blamed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller doubled down on President Trump’s renewed threats to make Greenland a U.S. territory, but he dismissed the prospect that a military confrontation would be necessary to achieve that goal. In an interview on CNN’s “The Lead,” the top White House adviser reaffirmed the “formal position of the…
From “no new wars” to running a country? President Trump sure has flip-glopped on foreign military intervention.
European leaders backed Greenland’s sovereignty Tuesday amid President Trump’s continued interest in acquiring the island. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a joint statement that…
A group of senior Trump administration officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will brief all senators Wednesday morning on the situation in Venezuela and President Trump’s plans for managing the power vacuum after the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro. Rubio and Hegseth will join Attorney General Pam Bondi,…
The White House deputy chief of staff grew visibly frustrated Monday amid warranted questions about the future of Venezuela and the ousting of its leader.
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that President Trump’s musings about taking over Greenland pose a threat to the strength of the NATO alliance. “As for Greenland, every time he mentions this, Trump endangers the NATO alliance,” Bolton said in an interview on CNN’s “The Source,” when asked about the president’s threats to…
President Trump on Tuesday morning will meet with House Republicans at the Kennedy Center as part of the GOP retreat. His remarks come just days after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who have been indicted on narco-terrorism charges. Maduro pleaded not guilty on Monday during his first court appearance in…
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wants to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump. “I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe, the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, want to give it to him and share it with him,” Machado…
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Monday criticized White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller for musing about seizing Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. “This is really dumb. Greenland and Denmark are our allies. There is no up side to demeaning our friends. But, it is causing wounds that will take time to heal,”…
The Trump administration’s military action in Venezuela on Saturday continues to roil the government, and as Congress rolls back into town, the operation is drawing support, opposition and opinions in between. Some Republicans have expressed wariness over the Trump administration’s nation-building, and MAGA is on edge. A classified briefing on Monday night did little to…
President Trump on Monday dismissed comparisons between past U.S. involvement in Iraq and the recent military operation in Venezuela, saying the difference is that the Trump administration plans to keep the seized oil. “The difference between Iraq and this is that [former President George W. Bush] didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the…
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who’s been in hiding for more than 16 months, said Monday that she plans to return home “as soon as possible.” In an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity,” the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner told host Sean Hannity that she plans to continue serving her cause of fighting for…
He was the first president to try to remain in power despite losing reelection, but democracy advocates worry he may not be the last.
President Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is giving him an opportunity to redefine “America First” as pro-intervention — but risks fracturing the MAGA coalition. There was some predictable pushback to the strikes from some of the biggest isolationist voices in the Republican Party who have turned into Trump antagonists. Now-former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene…
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Households earning more than $150,000 now buy 43% of the new cars sold in the U.S., up from 30% in 2019.
The “Late Night” host made an example out of the president’s insistence that he was against foreign wars and regime changes.
The “Daily Show” host joked that Americans “can’t even be conspiracy theorists now” after Trump and friends shared the casus belli behind the strikes.
The upcoming meetings will be crucial to the administration’s hopes to boost crude oil production and exports from Venezuela.
The “Late Show” host teased how he would “go out on top” if he inhabited the president’s body.
The network’s data chief argued that interest in the U.S. military operation in Venezuela was fleeting.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller backed President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. will govern Venezuela in the wake of the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. “What the president said is true. The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition, that’s true,” Miller told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “The…
“It’s all unknowable. I have no idea,” one GOP senator said of President Donald Trump’s plan for Venezuela after U.S. forces captured its president.