Asked by the NY Post if “US troops [will] be on the ground helping run the country,” Trump said: “No, if Maduro’s vice president — if the vice president does what we want, we won’t have to do that.” nypost.com/2026/01/03/u...

FOX NEWS: What are your expectations when you get briefings from senior Trump administration officials in the coming days? GALLEGO: Well, they're just gonna lie

Incredibly embarrassing. Poster-podcaster government

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

How long before Trump aides start walking this back?

Don’t print lies in the newspaper

In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report). That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed. My assessment just published: www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...

NYT appropriately hoists this from the archives www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

As usual, the only element of this WaPo editorial worth reading is the AI summary of reader comments: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

"Far too many questions remain unanswered," what a powerful statement from the leader of the opposition, no wonder voters see Democrats in Congress as strong and principled

My headline: Trump claims US will run Venezuela and sell its oil, but there is no sign he has a plan for how

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

Trump said Venezuelan oil infrastructure was built by the U.S. “25 years ago.” Is he thinking about the nationalization of the oil industry in the 1970s? Does he think it’s the year 2000?

JFC.

Dan: You can cut words two and three of that sentence.

???

In the early hours, it looks like we’re going to “run a country” via Zoom apnews.com/live/trump-u...

Just want to note that this is by all appearances part of his prepared remarks

They seem to have no plan.

I mean, he clearly doesn’t give a shit about constructing a democracy in Venezuela as long as he can steal their oil. So it was sort of true.

Trump is falling asleep on his feet, he could topple over

AP: No sign in the Venezuelan capital that the U.S. had taken over. apnews.com/live/trump-u...

Was this in his script, or was it an ad lib, and therefore fantasy?

Trump talks about “our home region.” He sees himself as the emperor of the western hemisphere.

What in the world? We sent in a dozen (ish?) helicopters, which promptly left. Maduro's VP is giving press conferences. In no way is the US "running" Venuezuela. So is a serious invasion coming or are we just going to make-believe the whole thing?

Now he’s just babbling

Trump in 2017: “we will no longer use American military might to construct democracies in faraway lands, or try to rebuild other countries in our own image. Those days are now over.” trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...

“We’re going to run the country,” Trump says.

All administrations have lied. But it is an entirely new thing to not be able to believe them about *anything* to do with a military action.

As usual, the only element of this WaPo editorial worth reading is the AI summary of reader comments: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

NYT appropriately hoists this from the archives www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

decided to go smell the rotten milk in the back of the Washington Post fridge... I don't even know what to say about this

Carving up the world into bully state spheres of influence is where this is headed. It’s a dark turn. Also: Stand by for the unintended consequences and sleazy back channel deal phases of today’s operation. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-illeg...

“Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America’s domain just as Ukraine was under the Russian shadow. Vladimir Putin thinks the same of much of eastern Europe. Xi Jinping will draw his own conclusions.”

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'" - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

“They should say great job,” he said in an interview on Fox News. “They shouldn’t say ‘Oh, gee, maybe it’s not constitutional.’” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

they’re never going to air the CECOT segment

A13. In case you're wondering how newsy it is to have the President dead to rights.

CBS’s Bari Weiss Accused Trump of Using ‘Anti-Jewish Tropes’ In Resurfaced Interview www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

I truly cannot wait for these incredibly stupid people to find out what happens when you try to wave the flag harder than Fox News

NEW from me: Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham. Take that, elites! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“FBI says FBI thwarted FBI-inspired terror attacks”

"Many of those investigations, like the one that led to the charges against Sturdivant, involved undercover agents or officers offering encouragement and in some cases suggestions on carrying out those attacks." Then why give them the headlines they want???? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

What Weiss and Adam O'Neal at the Post are really signaling is that nothing like the 1619 Project will be produced under their leadership. 1619 was not unpatriotic, but called for America to live up to its ideals, not its history and practices.

I also love America and believe in its stated values. And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.

I suspect transgender rights and higher education are two issues where NYT leadership is as opposed to the progressive left's positions as the right's. So they lean into right-wing framing of those subjects to rebut broader liberal bias charges. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...