President Donald Trump announced at a press conference on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 that the United States government had successfully captured Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, and would try him domestically for crime related to narco-terrorism against the U.S. Trump also announced that America is “going to run the country, essentially, until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition” to a new regime. Trump said members of his administration would be working with Venezuela’s new leadership to expand U.S. oil production in the country.
The president quickly ran into a few problems:
Venezuela’s new leader, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, called the U.S. an illegal invader and said she was not working with the Trump administration. She called Maduro the rightful leader and demanded he be released.
Invading a foreign country and kidnapping its president amounts to an act of war, which the president, per the Constitution, needs congressional approval for, but which he did not seek. Political pressure mounted against the president quickly on Saturday. (And presumably, invading Venezuela makes the government less likely to want to work with you on other reforms.)
By a 4:1 ratio, polls show the American people oppose the use of military force for regime change in Venezuela — including the strike that led to Maduro’s capture over the weekend.
Numbers one and two above will be both legal and political problems for Trump going forward. [snip]
Based on the public polling data, it’s clear that Trump’s invasion of, and intent to manage a petro-corporatocracy in, Venezuela is yet another example of him prioritizing the interests of his friends and a narrow coalition of voters over the majority of Americans. Most Americans, by a 25-50 point margin (depending on question wording), oppose war with Venezuela... (our emphasis)
The only good news about the events of the last 72 hours is that Americans aren't buying what the increasing desperate and unhinged Malignant Fascist and his toadies are selling. And when they hear this 👇, even more alarm bells start ringing.
Denmark's prime minister has told Donald Trump to "stop the threats" about taking over Greenland.
Mette Frederiksen said "it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland", adding: "The US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom".
Her remarks come after Katie Miller - the wife of one of Trump's aides, Stephen Miller - tweeted a map of Greenland in the colours of the American flag alongside the word "SOON".
Trump has repeatedly raised the possibility of Greenland becoming an annexed part of the US, citing its strategic location and mineral wealth.
In her statement, posted on the Danish government website, Frederiksen said she was addressing the US "very directly".
She said Denmark - "and thus Greenland" - was a Nato member and covered by the alliance's security guarantee. Denmark already had a defence agreement with the US that gave it access to Greenland, she said, and Denmark had upped its investment in security in the Arctic region.
"I would therefore strongly urge the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally and against another country and another people who have very clearly said that they are not for sale," she said.
Earlier the Danish ambassador to the US responded to the post by Ms Miller - a right-wing podcaster and former aide to Trump during his first term - with a "friendly reminder" that the two countries were allies and saying Denmark expected respect for its territorial integrity...
This is straight out of Putin's playbook into the Malignant Fascist's ear. Get his asset (or in this case, Peewee Goebbels' wife) to threaten a fellow NATO member, proving America to be not only an unreliable ally, but a dangerously unpredictable, imperialistic one. Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Denmark/Greenland -- all have received threats and/or been attacked in recent weeks by the MF and his regime. It's "gunboat diplomacy" without the diplomacy. It's not "America First," it's "America Worst."
The children of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman are asking President Trump to remove a video he reposted on social media Saturday alleging Gov. Tim Walz is behind their mother's assassination.
Walz responded to the president's Truth Social post, saying it is "dangerous, depraved behavior from the sitting president of the United States."
"In covering for an actual serial killer, he is going to get more innocent people killed. America is better than this," Walz said.
Hortman was shot and killed alongside her husband, Mark, and their dog, Gilbert, on June 14, 2025, inside the family's Brooklyn Park home. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot and wounded in their Champlin home 90 minutes earlier.
Vance Boelter, 58, faces federal charges for the shootings, including two counts of murder. He allegedly dressed as a police officer and managed to evade arrest for nearly 40 hours. According to prosecutors, Boelter had a hit list of lawmakers and other public officials, including staffers at Planned Parenthood. He pleaded not guilty in August.
Mr. Trump first reshared the video that states Boelter made the claim Walz ordered him to kill Hortman in a letter authorities say they found in his vehicle. Then-acting U.S. attorney Joe Thompson called the letter a "delusion" that seemed "designed to conceal his crimes."
The Hortmans' children, Sophie and Colin, on Sunday afternoon asked Mr. Trump to remove the post, saying it promotes a "false narrative."
"The video being shared by the president is another hurdle our family must overcome in grieving the loss of my parents, Mark and Melissa, and their beloved Gilbert," Sophie Hortman said. "I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced, and to honor the spirit of the holidays we have just spent without our parents by taking down the post on Truth Social."
Colin Hortman also debunked one of the claims made in the video shared by Mr. Trump regarding a vote his mother made shortly before her death to remove undocumented immigrant adults from the state's health care coverage program. Hortman was the sole Democrat to vote for it in the tied House chamber, clearing the way for its passage.
"When I called her after the legislative session ended, I asked why she voted for the bill mentioned in the video shared by President Trump, and she wept. That bill and her vote had nothing to do with fraud. She voted for that bill because it was the only way to avoid a government shutdown," Colin Hortman said. "She had never really voted against her conscience like that. It was emotional and extremely difficult."...
This is despicable even for someone known for being a sociopath without a heart or a conscience. The MF is grasping at every straw to distract from the Epstein-Trump files coverup, which he must understand to be so damaging to him that he's willing to start fires here and across the globe to get a smokescreen going. (The deranged MF was up in the middle of the night posting almost 100 messages on his failing social media platform in an hour. He must feel the walls closing in on him, making him more dangerous than ever.) Sadly, however, Gov. Walz has dropped out of his re-election race, because who could blame him?
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“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
If there's any space between that definition and what we've seen unfold in America in the past year, we can't see it.
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