"Donald Trump's blitzkrieg since his 3 January seizure of the Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has been guided by his triumph of the will, as he told the New York Times. Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me I don't need international law. Trump treats the spectacle as a reality TV show in which he is both the executive producer and the host who ultimately declares himself the winner."
"At his 3 January press conference on the day of Maduro's seizure, Trump mentioned oil 27 times, money 13 times and democracy not once. He trashed the democratic opposition as lacking respect and support. The capture of Maduro was a decapitation, not regime change. Indeed, Trump served as a convenient agent of an internal coup of the existing powers, whom he declared an ally."
"Trump has dubbed his Venezuelan exploit as the Donroe Doctrine. It is of a piece with his rebranding of history, along with dropping mention of his impeachments from his picture caption at the National Portrait Gallery and coercing the Smithsonian not to focus on how bad slavery was. He told the Times that the civil rights movement of the 1960s resulted in white people being very badly treated."
Donald Trump orchestrated a seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on 3 January, framing the action as a personal triumph and prioritizing his own morality over international law. He presented the operation as a reality-TV spectacle in which he acted as executive producer and host, repeatedly emphasizing oil and money while omitting democracy. The capture functioned as a decapitation and as an enabler of an internal coup aligned with existing Venezuelan powers. Trump branded the move the Donroe Doctrine, invited oil CEOs, signaled intent to control Venezuelan finances and oil indefinitely, and revised historical narratives while minimizing political accountability.
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