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Trump has CATASTROPHIC SUNDAY as Plans SPIRAL Out OF CONTROL

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Trump has CATASTROPHIC SUNDAY as Plans SPIRAL Out OF CONTROL", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 4, 2026 (15 min, about 2,749 words). It mentions 13 people, works and ideas, including Maria Corina Machado, Delcy Rodríguez, María Elvira Salazar, Mario Díaz-Balart, Edmundo González.

What this episode is about

Donald Trump is facing backlash for his controversial statements regarding Venezuela, including his apparent support for the Maduro regime and intentions to exploit the country's oil resources. Critics argue that Trump's actions reflect a desire to maintain authoritarian control in Venezuela while sidelining democratic leaders, raising concerns about U.S. foreign policy motivations and collaboration with foreign powers like Russia.

Key takeaways

  • Trump's Sunday scuffle redefines 'oil painting'; Venezuela isn't a blank canvas for corporate brush strokes.
  • Who knew Maduro's dance moves could trigger international intrigue? Trump's tango with dictators is far less graceful.
  • Democracy: the ultimate backstage pass Trump chose to revoke while seeking Venezuela's oil spotlight.
  • Stakes in Venezuela: democracy hangs by a thread, or is it just Trump's red tie?
  • Maduro's friend, Trump's pick, Machado stuck—Venezuela's leadership puzzle is not quite an art of the deal.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: American corporations, US officials
  2. – 9:00: Donroe doctrine
  3. – 15:00: The Dignity Act, The Mail on Sunday

Notable quotes from "Trump has CATASTROPHIC SUNDAY as Plans SPIRAL Out OF CONTROL"

  • Control of Maduro's people with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations. then there's a lot of articles today how you…
    about American corporations · at
  • Fixed on a Maduro loyalist as Venezuela's new leader. Nicholas Maduro boked at a gilded exile. US officials then saw a more pliant option in his vice president Deli Rodriguez…
    about US officials · at
  • Maria Gorin Mach. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been posting images of himself saying the Donroe doctrine. He's holding like a bat or a club that says the Donro doctrine. This is…
    about Donroe doctrine · at
  • They're going to hone in on the criminals who arrived less than four years ago because I wrote the dignity act and I am the first one who understands that you have to give some…
    about The Dignity Act · at
  • Just take a look quickly at some of the headlines internationally. This is the Mail on Sunday. Trump now I'm running Venezuela. America on the war path.
    about The Mail on Sunday · at

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Full transcript with timestamps

Donald Trump is having an awful Sunday morning as people across the world and here in the United States are letting Donald Trump know what they really feel about him taking over Venezuela so he could seize the oil and keep other stooges from Maduro's regime still in power so that Donald Trump could work with the other authoritarians there to take the oil for himself. You know, the Venezuelan community in the United States, they were saying, "Did Donald Trump misspeak when he said he wants to work with the current vice president, now president of Venezuela, Maduro's right-hand, Deli Rodriguez?" And Donald Trump threw uh Machado, the opposition leader, under the bus. People said, "No, Donald Trump didn't really mean that."

He didn't mean that. He wants his own authoritarians in Venezuela. He doesn't want a democracy in there cuz he wants the oil for himself that he can share with Putin. Don't you realize that that's Donald Trump's plan right here? And you think Donald Trump could take that action without coordinating that with Putin? Come on, let's get real here. So, here's how it's being reported in The Economist. Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami could not believe it, insisting that Trump must have misspoken during his press conference. Do you think he was misspeaking when he said, "I want their oil." Like 20 times during that press conference. His plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the dayto-day control of Maduro's people with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations. Uh then there's a lot of articles today how you know highlighting

what we've highlighted here on the Midas Touch network. how uh Machado, the opposition leader who backed Elm Mundo Gonzalez, uh who most people believe won the July 2024 election with 70% of the vote that she basically said everything that Donald Trump wanted to hear. Miss Machado, that's the main opposition leader in Venezuela who all of the, you know, Trump bootlickers said Trump's going to put her in power and she's going to run Venezuela as a democracy. This is what's going to happen. Miss Machano had gone out of her way to please Trump, calling him a champion of freedom, mimicking his talking points on election fraud in the United States and even dedicating the Nobel Peace Prize to him. But it was all in vain how Trump fixed on a Maduro loyalist as Venezuela's new leader. Nicholas Maduro boked at a gilded exile. US officials then saw a more pliant option in his vice president Deli Rodriguez known for

stabilizing Venezuela's economy. So Trump went allin on basically Maduro's right hand or one of the people in the regime Deli Rodriguez and threw Machado under the bus. Um, the article goes on to talk about as well how Maduro's constant dancing was one of the reasons why Donald Trump decided to invade Venezuela and then White House settled on Deli as an acceptable candidate. Um, and they believe that she would be a good figure head for Trump to run the country with and that she would allow the oil companies to extract the oil for the United States. although she came out with a statement right away um saying that Maduro is the only president and she demonstrated swift defiance as the Times reports her swift defiance of Mr.

Trump made clear that his plans to swoop into South American nation and run it as his own faced many more hurdles than he suggested. I just want to show you this right here quickly. This is when Donald Trump threw Machado under the bus and said that um she doesn't have the uh respect of the Venezuelan people. I just want to be clear, you can have different views about Machado and especially the fact that the way she's been behaving with Trump, things that she's been saying lately. Total totally. Um I think you could be very critical of it. Does seem though that when she backed in Mundo Gonzalez in the 2024 election, they won that election. Most people believe in Venezuela. So, the fact that Donald Trump said she doesn't have the respect. She's a nice lady, but doesn't have the respect of the Venezuelan people. Here, play this clip.

The US aware of the location of opposition leader Machado and have you been in contact with her?

No, we haven't. We haven't. Mr. President, Mr. President, on on Monday, I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman, but she doesn't have the respect to.

So then you have the kind of usual Trump bootlickers and here they are in Florida. You have MAGA Republican Congress member Diaz Bolard. He's standing next to Congresswoman Salazar and they're asked so I guess you all don't support Marina Corina Machado, right? because uh Maria Karina Machado because we all heard what Donald Trump said and you all said you support this this plan with Donald Trump 100%. So you all right and and and these are Cuban exiles. They represent uh their their family left Cuba and they represent uh the Cuban and Venezuelan communities uh in southern Florida. So watch what MAGA Republican Diaz Bolard says here. Play this clip. Why are you not willing to support Maria Korina to be

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa wait wait wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on a sec.

Let's talk about that first. You're talking to us? Yes. When have we ever not supported her?

No, no, no, no wait, wait, wait. But let's look. This these are serious issues. Do not put words in my mouth.

And do not No, no, no, wait. But you said us. You said us. You said us. Okay. But it's very I I will not tolerate

putting words in my mouth or my colleague's mouth. Yeah. We have been consistent from day one. And I am convinced there's going to be a transition. We already talked about that. And I'm convinced that when there are elections, whether there are new elections or there's a decision to take the old elections, the last elections, that the next democratically elected president of Venezuela is going to be Maria Gorin Mach. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been posting images of himself uh saying the Donroe doctrine. He's holding like a bat or a club that says the Donro doctrine. This is actually a post from Trump's official rapid response account. You see this photo? It says the Donro doctrine and it's Donald Trump stepping on Canada and South America um saying that basically this belongs to him. That's what Donald Trump is doing. And as as Donald Trump does that, he's getting criticized by the pope. And the pope, Pope Leo, said that

Venezuela must remain independent. He called for respect of human rights and basically said that, you know, the that he does not support an occupation of uh Venezuela by the United States and the Trump regime. He didn't use those specific words, but he talked about independence and avoiding occupations. Um I want to show you this now. Does Donald Trump sends his bootlickers. Trump's getting desperate this morning. So, um, he sends Marco Rubio, but what if Marco Rubio has a disastrous appearance? Rubio then talks about basically invading Cuba next. Rubio's like, "Yeah, Cuba's probably next. Here, play this clip. Go bonkers."

Is the Cuban government, the Trump administration's next target, Mr. Secretary, very quickly.

Well, the Cuban government is a is a huge problem. Yeah. The the the Cuban government is a huge problem. First of all, Cuba, but I don't think people fully appreciate I think they're in a lot of trouble. Yes, I'm not going to talk talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now in this regard. But I don't think it's any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime, who by the way are the ones that were propping up Maduro. His entire like internal security force, his internal security uh oper apparatus is entirely controlled by Cubans. One of the untold stories here is how in essence you talk about colonization because I think you said Deli Rodriguez mentioned that the ones who have sort of colonized at least inside the regime are Cubans. It was Cubans that guarded Maduro. He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards. He had Cuban bodyguards in

terms of their internal intelligence. Who spies on who inside to make sure there are no traitors? Those are all Cubans.

All right, Secretary. And then Marco Rubio is asked on Meet the Press. Will you seek congressional approval for any further action in Venezuela? And Rubio says, why would we need approval? This isn't a war. This is like a legal operation. We're just arresting a fugitive here. Play this clip. Th this was not an action that Yeah. This was not an action that required congressional approval. In fact, it couldn't require congressional approval because this was not an invasion. This is not an extended military operation. This was a very precise operation that involved a couple of hours of action. It was a very delicate operation, too. It was one that required all these conditions to be in place at the right time in the right place. You couldn't afford leaks. We couldn't afford anything out there that would have endangered the mission and gotten people killed or killed off the mission. and the optionality. We we

didn't even know if the mission was going to happen. Then you have Jim Jordan, MAGA Republican Congress member Jim Jordan, and all he wanted to talk about was China sending a spy balloon in the air that was during Biden's administration. Do you know how many spy balloons were there during the Trump administration, Trump's first administration? Way more than Biden's. Trump just covered it up. Do we know how many spy balloons right now exist? We don't know because Trump lies about everything and covers everything up. I mean, that's the reality of it is that we do know that China is doing its most aggressive um military training exercises by Taiwan right now. We do know that North Korea launched ballistic missiles again yesterday and they're testing their missiles again in a more aggressive posture than ever. We do know that China is not buying American soybeans. Still, we do know that we we do know that China

is treating Donald Trump like a pathetic little individual here. Play this clip of Jim Jordan

strength and takes decisive action. Think about contrast the president's actions. What took place two days ago. What took place with with uh you know midnight hammer when he stopped Iran. Contrast that with the previous administration. Contrast that with Joe Joe Biden let a Chinese spy balloon fly clear across the focus and then shut it down. Do you think President Trump would allow that? I think the American people appreciate the fact that he demonstrates strength and he and he and he takes decisive action for the benefit of Americans.

You talk about and next Jim Jordan is asked on CNN. He says, "Well, how does this make sense?" So you're saying that you're one of the reasons you went after Maduro is that because he's a narot terrorist, but then Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, the one of the biggest narot terrorists in history who worked with El Chapo to bring in huge quantities of cocaine to kill Americans. So you pardon the biggest drug cartel narot terrorist benefactor and Juan Orlando Juan Orlando Hernandez. How does this make sense to you, Jim? Here, play this clip. to something that President Trump did after the former president of Honduras went through the American judicial process was found guilty was sentenced for a whole bunch of really bad things with regard to uh sending drugs into the US poisoning American children as you would say. Uh the president pardoned him. How is that consistent with going

President's clear about this I think in his press press conference. The pardon power by the way is exclusive to the president. They can exercise whatever they darn want. should he exercised that way and he said he thought that the Biden administration treated this individual the former president in an unfair fashion and so he chose to pardon him. President Biden is pardons President Biden issued pardons for

next Jim Jordan as all these MAGA Republicans this morning are asked well what's next? What happens next here? And Jim Jordan says well I just trust whatever Donald Trump says. That's it. Whatever Donald Trump says I I trust. Here play this clip right here. But the question is, but the question is what's next and what is the American

and what I'm saying is we'll see. But I trust this administration taxpayer on the hook.

I trust Secretary Rubio. I trust Secretary H. I trust President Trump in in his making decisions that again are in the best interest of the American people and frankly I trust our military.

And I just want to remind you when I showed you that press conference I showed you Congress member Diaz Balard but I just want to quickly remind you of Congresswoman Salazar. Now, Congresswoman Maria Salazar is also a Congress lady from southern uh the southern Florida, South Florida area. And I just want to remind you what she said back on November 11th, 2024, that because she's been guaranteeing this to the to her communities there, to the immigrant communities that she represents, that Donald Trump would only go after criminals with ICE and Border Patrol. That was her promise to everybody. You know, she constantly is bringing her community and just throwing them under the bus. And she promises, tell you, I promise you, it's all one big misunderstanding. Donald, Donald Donald promises us that he's going to do this. And it's just one big lie and grift after another. Here's what you said November 11th, 2024. Here, play

this clip. 200,000 undocumented in your community. Is that what you're saying? that I am sure that we're not that the Trump administration is not going to be targeting those people who have been here for more than five years that have American kids that don't have criminal records that have been working in the economy and paying taxes. I am sure that they're going to hone in on the criminals who arrived less than four years ago because I wrote the dignity act and I am the first one who understands that you have to give some type of dignity to those who have been here for more than 5 years. people who have roots in the country, not people who are coming to commit crimes.

If if I can just clarify from you, have you received those kinds of of details from anyone in a potential Trump administration? Because so far what we've heard is proposal for mass deportations. We have about 30 seconds left. Have you gotten those assurances?

Mass deportation to those who are committing crimes who have been here for less than 5 years. you understand that you have th millions of undocumented who are contributing with the economy and are helping our country to be a better one.

Just take a look quickly at some of the headlines internationally. This is the Mail on Sunday. Trump now I'm running Venezuela. America on the war path. America on the war path. That's how uh this is being described internationally. America on the war path with a deranged, demented individual like Donald Trump doing this. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thanks so much for watching and have a good day. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest Pro Democracy sticker packs t-shirts hats sweatshirts and more. All at store.mitus.com.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Trump has CATASTROPHIC SUNDAY as Plans SPIRAL Out OF CONTROL"?

Ben Meiselas (Host), Donald Trump (Guest), Mario Díaz-Balart (Guest), María Elvira Salazar (Guest), Marco Rubio (Guest), Jim Jordan (Guest), Unidentified reporters/interviewers (Guest).

What is "Trump has CATASTROPHIC SUNDAY as Plans SPIRAL Out OF CONTROL" about?

Donald Trump is facing backlash for his controversial statements regarding Venezuela, including his apparent support for the Maduro regime and intentions to exploit the country's oil resources. Critics argue that Trump's actions reflect a desire to maintain authoritarian control in Venezuela while sidelining democratic leaders, raising concerns about U.S. foreign policy motivations and…

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

13 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Maria Corina Machado, Delcy Rodríguez, María Elvira Salazar, Mario Díaz-Balart, Edmundo González, American corporations. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Trump has CATASTROPHIC SUNDAY as Plans SPIRAL Out OF CONTROL"?

The episode runs 15 min; the transcript is about 2,749 words in 31 timestamped sections.

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