President Donald Trump said he watched the complex capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro play out in real time from a room in Mar-a-Lago alongside military generals.
“I was told by real military people that there’s no other country on Earth that can do such a maneuver,” Trump told Fox News in a phone interview. “If you would have seen what happened, I mean, I watched it literally, like I was watching a television show.”
“If you would have seen the, the speed, the violence, you know, they say that the speed, the violence, they use that term. It’s just, it was an amazing thing, amazing job that these people did. There’s nobody else could have done anything like it,” Trump added.
Trump, who has spent Christmas and New Year’s in Palm Beach at his private Mar-a-Lago club, said that he watched the US military capture Maduro, which included them breaking through steel doors.
“Well, we watched it from a room. We had a room, and we watched it, and we watched every aspect of it. We were surrounded by lots of people, including generals, and they knew everything that was happening. And it was very complex, extremely complex,” Trump said.
“Really, they just broke in, and they broke into places that were not really able to be, broke into steel doors that was were put there for just this reason, and they got taken out in a matter of seconds. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Trump continued.
Trump also said that the US had a “massive number” of aircraft on tap, including helicopters and fighter jets.