U.S. \u200cPresident Donald Trump \u2060on \u200cSunday said Venezuelan \u200dVice President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez may \u200dpay \u200ca bigger price than ousted leader \u200cNicolas Maduro “if she doesn’t do what’s right,” \u200caccording \u200dto an \u2060interview with The Atlantic magazine. Trump made it clear in the interview that he does not intend to accept Rodriguez’s defiant opposition to the American military intervention that led to Maduro’s capture.<\/p>\n
Trump, in a telephone interview with journalist Michael Scherer, reaffirmed that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention. “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” he said, describing the island \u2013 a sovereign territory of NATO member Denmark \u2013 as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.” <\/p>\n
Trump made it clear in the interview that he does not intend to accept Rodriguez’s defiant opposition to the American military intervention that led to Maduro’s capture.<\/p>\n
In discussing Venezuela’s future, Trump signaled a clear shift away from his previous distaste for regime change and nation-building, saying, “You know, rebuilding there and regime change, anything you want to call it, is better than what you have right now. Can’t get any worse,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. \u200cPresident Donald Trump \u2060on \u200cSunday said Venezuelan \u200dVice President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez may \u200dpay \u200ca bigger price than…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":493280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17835,372,69,86232,4783,4784,99,119115,30578,13192,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-493279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-2025-israel-iran-war","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-hamas-hostages","12":"tag-hezbollah","13":"tag-idf","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-israel-u-s","16":"tag-israel-gaza-war","17":"tag-lebanon","18":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115840545200210479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}