Katty Kay
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What do they think of the amount of time and attention Donald Trump is spending on these foreign ventures?
I mean, I don't know if most of them could find Venezuela on a map.
I'm not sure I could have found Venezuela on a map until Maduro came onto the picture.
Until recently, I actually did go to Caracas, I think, for Chavez's funeral.
So maybe hopefully after that, I could still find it on a map.
But most people, you know, Venezuela's far away.
It didn't impact most people.
Maduro did not impact most American voters.
Iran also.
I mean, it was...
Ironically, it was Donald Trump who said, Venezuela is close.
It's not a 20-hour flight away.
That's why we're not getting involved in the Middle East.
Then, of course, a couple of months later, he gets involved in the Middle East, and now he's going to China, which is a very important trip.
There are a lot of people nervous that he's going to undermine Taiwan's position.
I just had a text actually from Senator Chris Coons, who we spoke to when we were in Davos, who said that
He's concerned that Trump may well give away something substantial on either AI or Taiwan just to have a win as he sees it on trade at the summit because Trump's going to want to come away and say he got something out of it.
But Coons is saying also that he thinks Iran does significantly weaken Trump because of how he's mishandled it and because of the divisions that it's created with our allies.
Of course, Xi Jinping knows this and knows that Americans are worried about this.