Trump Claimed to Run Venezuela. After Earthquakes, He’s Walking That Back.

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/25/trump-venezuela-earthquakes-aid-sanctions/

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Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 74 pts · 77d (1 reply)

Is he at least going to hand out paper towels?

daychilde@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 76d

Speaking of which: fuck the president of Puerto Rico. Heh

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 57 pts · 77d (1 reply)

"I run Venezuela" (when there is oil money to be taken)

"I don't run Venezuela" (when they need literally any governance or humanitarian help)

HubertManne@piefed.social · 29 pts · 77d

sounds like the way he runs the us. oh we need more farm aid and it totally is not something that snap benefits would effect.

bradinutah@thelemmy.club · 29 pts · 77d (2 replies)

If he could have bowed out during COVID, he would have done that too. He's like the Levite that walks by in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Heartless.

daychilde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d (1 reply)

Heh. I like that. He certainly does appear in the Bible in certain places, just not the places he would like you to think he does. LOL

bradinutah@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 76d

"Make Israel Great Again!" - Donald the Heartless Levite

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 77d (1 reply)

Isn't it weird how bad things happen when that dumb fucker steals an election? I mean, gets elected by fucking morons?

COVID, el nino, earthquakes, screwworms...

lennybird@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 77d

The abolition of USAID has already led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths:

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

Predicted 14 million by 2030, 4 million being children. There's no excuse for this. At best it's negligent mass homicide.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 77d

Trump can't run anything, except shit into his Depends.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 7 pts · 77d

Trump:

Steals Venezuela oil tankers

Bombs it

Arrests their president from his bed at night

Leaves

Maduro's VP:

Works with US companies to establish his own grip on power

Trump:

"I'm in charge"

Me:

Lmao

Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 76d

I wonder, if President Maduro is aware, and what he must be thinking, if he is.

I haven't seen him in the news since he's been kidnapped.