Cool, so now he's just stealing other country's stuff. Got it.
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2026
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Heb genuinely, literally, wholly thinks he is a god.
This man would try to conquer the galaxy if he had the means. He is deranged and his hubris and greed know no fucking end
I would gladly pay my two cents in a crowdfunding to send him on his way in a rocket out to nowhere...
Oh absolutely. He is just the poster child for it.
I bet he could be convinced
God. I wish
It is only hubris if he gets an eagle to eat his liver or something. The sad fact is that we as a global species and community are too disorganized to stop the fucker. We are not eagles, we are poultry running around in the hen house, feathers everywhere. While the that senile fox kills at leisure. We could stop him. At a price granted, but that would mean we would have give a common response. If only there was a global organization, where we could organize that. Or even a global infrastructure. But I am just a sad old fowl dreaming. In the meanwhile the senile fox has realized my country too has oil :/
and some americans think it's fine because they wanted the oil and now they have it. literally that's it, I wanted it and now I have it and therefore everything about this is good and ok.
The great thing is that clearly we already have oil: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M
And that burning dino juice should drop in mid to long term from here out and not be the boom economic effect anyone thinks it is.
So Trump, the man who's declared bankruptcy multiple times, is gonna take care of the money from sales of Venezuelan oil.
Jfc. :(
This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America
This whole thing has been fairly confusing until you pointed this out. He’s been finagling his way through an absence of personal money. Now he has a huge fund to pull from. He invaded a country for oil, which isn’t unheard of, but essentially blackmailing another country to enrich the office of the president that he’s manning, that’s a very Reagan move. Also a very CIA move.
Edit: just mathed and it’s 1.7 billion dollars to singularly play with, minus tax. Even worse times potentially coming
Sweet! All of two days of US consumption. This was definitely worth violating another country's sovereignty and murdering a couple hundred people.
This is just an appetizer
50 million SOUNDS like a lot, but the US consumes 20 million a day:
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=33&t=6
So ooooh! A weekends worth! 😉
And all it cost was global destabilization
There are plenty of human lives as well
"By me". Not by the government, not by the USA but BY HIM. God that says it all
I'm having a hard time describing what this is, because it legitimately feels like piracy. Like privateers are after my barley and cane sugar.
Just good old fashioned colonialism like the brits intended
Oh and the profits go directly to Trump huh? That's fun.
Huge surprise there. Im only mildly surprised he said it out loud.
If Trump says it then I assume it isn't true.
This sounds like a lot of oil, but it's actually not that much. The U.S. strategic oil reserve is about 44 billion barrels, and they distribute more than 5 million barrels per day.
So stumbling on 50 million barrels is about 10 days worth of crude oil distribution. It will barely make a dent in gas prices at the pump.
Regardless, this is blatantly corrupt activity. Trump intends to profit personally off of stolen Venezuelan oil.
My first search was how much we used a day, and it came out to be 2-3 days. I'm sure it won't be the last seizure we see, it's going to be a rough year again
They know that most Americans won't check it, will see 50m and think "whoa that's a big number"
Oh nah, they're selling it at market rate, but the money goes into a PERSONAL ACCOUNT FOR TRUMP. Not into a government fund.
Dude just extorted about 2 billion bucks for himself, with more on the way if he keeps seizing tankers.
It's approximately a tanker's worth, I presume....
The current output of Venezuela less than 1 million a day. Even at their peak it was 3 million a day. Which will probably take a decade to get back to those numbers. This whole thing has nothing to do with their production and how much they will “give” the US. It’s about controlling the largest oil reserve on the planet they are sitting on.
After the rape comes the plunder
Just a reminder to those of us who did not vote.
You helped do this.
Very cute. Normies don't browse reddit / Lemmy though. You are talking to a wall.
And Europe will sanction USA oil as theft and illegal. /s
"Trump says"
Bullshit confirmed.
This is a stick-up
Not to mention that while the oil will be sold at market price, Venezuelans will be at the mercy of asshole-in-chief as he'll control "when" they get to spend it, and only on 'murican goods
Yeah, sure. He can say a lot of things.
Pirates of Penzance, but the Pirate King and the Modern Major General are running the government. Lose the empathy, but keep the ineptitude.