In Trump’s words, ‘we’re in the oil business’

In his embarrassingly incoherent press conference on Saturday after US forces apprehended Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Venezuela, President Trump asserted, “We’re in the oil business.”

He said, “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies … go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken … oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country.”

This brought to mind the words of Marine Major General Smedley Butler, two-time Medal of Honor recipient: “I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”