President Trump threatens this ruthless dictator in a move that’s sending shockwaves around the world
Trump isn’t messing around. He’s not afraid to show his strength.
And President Trump threatened this ruthless dictator in a move that’s sending shockwaves around the world.
Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure on Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, declaring that the tyrant’s grip on power is slipping away fast as America unleashes the most massive military presence in the Caribbean since the Reagan era.
In a hard-hitting 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday, Trump laid out how Maduro’s corrupt regime is flooding the U.S. with drugs, crime, and unwanted migrants, turning our borders into a dumping ground for Venezuela’s worst elements.
“They’ve been treating us very badly, not only on drugs. They’ve dumped hundreds of thousands of people into our country that we didn’t want — people from prisons. They emptied their prisons into our country,” he stated.
“They also, if you take a look, they emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums into the United States of America.”
Ruthless gangs like Tren de Aragua and Cartel de Los Soles have infiltrated American cities, bringing a wave of robberies and drug peddling right along with the flood of Venezuelan refugees.
Trump isn’t just talking tough—he’s deploying serious muscle, including the mighty USS Gerald Ford, the planet’s largest aircraft carrier, backed by nuclear subs, destroyers, cruisers, and thousands of troops to send a clear message.
Maduro has clung to power in Venezuela since 2013, stealing elections in 2019 and 2023 that he probably lost by huge margins, according to watchdogs who saw through his fraud.
Even as his country crumbles under economic ruin, crippling sanctions, and global shunning, Maduro stays arrogant and unyielding.
Venezuelan freedom fighter and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado shared with the New York Post her hope that ousting Maduro would bring back millions of exiles eager to rebuild their homeland.
“This regime systematically and intentionally looked to expel millions of Venezuelans. Imagine if one-third of the US population had to flee? This is devastating for us,” she said last month.
“The day Maduro goes, you will see hundreds of thousands of Venezuela from all over the world and the US coming back home.”
Right now, eight U.S. warships patrol the area, based on open Pentagon records, but that’s set to surge to 14 vessels and over 10,000 troops with the arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group.
The Ford, flanked by guided-missile destroyers like the USS Mahan, USS Winston S. Churchill, USS Bainbridge, USS Mitscher, and USS Forrest Sherman, departed Europe last week and should hit the Caribbean by week’s end.
This powerhouse buildup kicked off over two months ago when Trump ordered seven warships, including destroyers and a nuclear sub, with 4,500 personnel to Venezuelan waters on August 29.
Those forces have already hammered at least 14 drug boats from Venezuela, taking out more than 60 narco-thugs in strikes that Trump called a stroke of luck for America when speaking on 60 Minutes.
“Every one of those boats that you see shot down — and I agree it’s a terrible thing — but every one of those boats k*lls 25,000 Americans,” the president stated.
Adding to the naval punch, swarms of aircraft from F-35 fighters to B-52 bombers are dominating the skies, all coordinated from the revitalized Roosevelt Roads base in Puerto Rico, a Cold War relic now reborn as the hub of this operation.
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