Tim Miller

Tucker Carlson even said that he thought that the speech was going to be about declaring war on Venezuela.

Yeah.

They are now focused on this potential war in South America and the Caribbean.

Trump sent this bleat yesterday.

I just want to read some of it.

Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America.

It will only get bigger until such time as they return to the United States of America all the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us.

I'm ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela.

That is a deranged statement.

And setting the tone for at least laying the table for potentially a truly crazy policy that he didn't lay the predicate for at all during the campaign.

And it's unclear that even his own supporters would be in favor.

I'm going to disagree with you, Tim, that he didn't lay the predicate for this in his campaign.

Donald Trump has been talking about seizing the oil assets of other countries ever since he ran in 2016.

We've heard this 10,000 times from this man.

And what's really fascinating for somebody like me, who has, as you know, been been critical of Trump.

foreign policy objectives of both Democratic and Republican administrations.

He's saying, like, interestingly for me, he's saying a quiet thing out loud, right?

There's a way that whenever, you know, a new president comes into power, we always say, you know, America's open for business again.

Whatever, what happened before weakened America in the world.

And now we're going to lead with our strength.