UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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Boy I can't wait forTaylor'sTommy's 25 minute monologue about this to open next season's Landman @playahaitian
f**k I hope not. I didn't even think of that sh*t.
Knowing Sheridan though? I KNOW he don't support THIS bullsh*t in real life. And F**k a show character's perspective. I don't think he would put that in his work
But we will see.
If ONLY he had this energy back when other progressives were running! Lets see if he'll go on Bill Mahers' show and say this same statement!
...what does Puerto Rico have again?
Drugs and guns
Yooooo i just noticed that he's dressed exactly the same as Obama was in that pic.. I almost never see this fool without a tie on...
Fred Trump...why did you neglect your child so much??
Sorry ass bitches
Nigga please , you one of the reason we have Trump
Exactly! No one is going to anything because it's the United States and Trump knows this. That's why he does whatever the fuck he wants because our Congress which suppose to have checks and balances will do absolutely nothing as well. Smh!
Every episode has to include some political commentaryBoy I can't wait forTaylor'sTommy's 25 minute monologue about this to open next season's Landman @playahaitian
You been talking like this for 10 years and nothing ever happens. Don’t you ever get tired of being worried all the time?
That dude may not even make it past 2026.
Gavin Newsom 2028 ·
Rockaway Primetime Reporting ·
They’re not even pretending anymore: Donald Trump didn’t say “democracy” — he literally said oil, and then he said the U.S. would "run" Venezuela
Jan 3, 2026
The industry was “a bust,” he said. American companies would go in, rebuild the infrastructure, and start making money. It was said plainly, casually, like the business case for a takeover that had already been approved.
This wasn’t framed as diplomacy. It wasn’t framed as defense. It was framed as management. Venezuela, in Trump’s telling, is a failed operation sitting on an incredibly valuable asset, and the United States is stepping in to run it better.
Oil wasn’t buried in the fine print. It was right there at the top, driving the logic of the entire intervention.
Venezuela happens to hold the largest proven oil reserves in the world. That fact has hovered over U.S. policy for decades, usually unspoken, always decisive. What’s different now is the lack of pretense.
Trump didn’t bother with the old language about democracy or liberation. He talked about infrastructure, investment, profit. He talked about “boots on the ground” not as a last resort, but as a tool to secure the deal.
Lawmakers reacted with alarm, and not just because of Trump’s tone. Democratic members of Congress condemned the move as an illegal act of regime change, pointing out that Congress never authorized war and that openly linking military force to control of natural resources violates both U.S. law and international norms.
But even that criticism feels almost secondary to what Trump revealed himself.
He described the United States “running” another sovereign nation as if it were temporary custodianship, a necessary fix until things are profitable and orderly again.
That framing should be chilling. It assumes the right to decide when a country is finished being occupied. It assumes ownership over resources that belong to people who were never asked.
For years, Americans have been told that the era of oil wars is over, that lessons were learned in Iraq, that the U.S. no longer topples governments for resources.
And yet here we are, with a president openly explaining that the problem with Venezuela is that its oil isn’t being pumped efficiently — and that America is here to fix that.
If you’re wondering why this feels so brazen, it’s because it is. Usually, the extraction comes later, after the speeches, after the occupation is normalized. This time, the extraction was the headline.
You don’t need to support Nicolás Maduro to recognize what’s happening. You don’t need to defend his government to understand that saying “we will run your country and take care of your oil” is not liberation. It’s empire, stated without apology.
Oil was never the side issue.
It was always the point.
And now they aren’t even pretending otherwise.
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