Tim Miller

I want to talk about Venezuela.

The Trump had this roundtable with oil executives last week to, I guess, gain some excitement for our imperialist effort to steal the oil from Venezuela.

One CEO at Exxon dissented.

Let's listen.

OK, so pretty clearly clear there from the Exxon guy is just like, why would I go into Venezuela?

Basically, like what changed?

They've seized my oil twice down there already since we went in there for the first time in the 1940s.

And now you're just like, trust me, we should go.

We should go into Venezuela.

It doesn't make a lot of sense for me.

Trump lashed out at him on that same plane gaggle and said he's inclined to keep Exxon Mobil out of Venezuela.

after the ceo's skeptical response so i just is that the president's job like does the president of the united states get to decide what companies invest in other countries i get apparently that's that's this is the new free market conservatism the dialed trump just you if you're a gas oil and gas ceo you got to suck up to trump

And he wants to control them more.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the U.S.

is thinking about taking ownership stakes in oil companies like they did in Intel.

This is like beyond Bernie Sanders level fantasies.

Like the whole thing is about controlling and manipulating these CEOs.

And I know that I'm a broken record on this and that good on the Exxon guy for speaking out and for a couple that we've seen on the Fed thing.

I just don't understand why these guys are going along with this.

The hair would be on so on fire.