Trump: "Venezuela right now is a dead country. We have to bring it back. We're gonna have to have big investments by the oil companies." pic.twitter.com/2Rs56fgWih
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2026
President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Venezuela is a “dead” country that he is giving over to oil companies, after his illegal invasion and kidnapping of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela, right now, is a dead country. We have to bring it back. We’re going to have to have big investments from the oil companies to rebuild the infrastructure. The oil companies are ready to go. They’re going to go in. They’re going to build the infrastructure. We built it to start off with many years ago. They took it away. You can’t do that.
(Source: News Nation)