Nancy Pelosi

It's why he's obsessed with the idea that the U.S.

is now going to take their oil.

It's a fantasy he's been fixated on for almost 40 years, seizing oil wherever the U.S.

can flex its military might.

Okay, so Trump has clearly fantasized about doing this for a very, very long time.

That goes back many, many years.

Well, tonight in a post-untruth social, Trump announced that Venezuela would be turning over between 30 to 50 million barrels of, quote, high-quality sanctioned oil to the United States of America.

And that money from that oil will be, in his words, controlled by him.

Now, there's so many questions here.

For context, though, 30 to 50 million barrels of oil is roughly equivalent to the amount of oil the U.S.

produces every three to four days.

So this is not exactly a huge windfall to start with.

But setting that aside, how is this supposed to work?

What legal basis does the U.S.

have to seize any country's oil?

What does he mean when he says it will be controlled by him?

And what does Venezuela get in return, which I expect a lot of national security reporters are looking into right now?

None of this feels particularly well thought out.

Lots of questions.

Trump doesn't care, though, because just like with everything else he does, once the high of the announcement wears off, there is no plan for what comes next.