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Trump THROWS OUT Press from SECRET MEETING with OIL EXECS

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Trump THROWS OUT Press from SECRET MEETING with OIL EXECS", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 10, 2026 (19 min, about 3,434 words). It mentions 3 people, works and ideas, including Donald Trump, Chevron Corp., Exxon.

What this episode is about

Donald Trump dismissed the press during a private meeting with oil executives at the White House to discuss plans for controlling Venezuelan oil in the wake of his administration's proposed invasion. He suggested a connection between their potential financial support for his extravagant Golden Ballroom project and their interests in Venezuela's oil resources.

Key takeaways

  • Trump's 'Golden Ballroom' hint to oil execs suggests a bizarre merger of diplomacy and real estate ambitions.
  • Kicking out the press for secret talks? Classic Trump—conveniently obscure while negotiating oil interests.
  • Referring to CEOs as 'Mr. Chevron' showcases Trump's disconnected charisma: big talk, no personal touch.
  • A Nobel Peace Prize exchange? Trump's bargaining chip reveals a perplexing grasp on international geopolitics.
  • Supporting Maduro's VP while claiming to help Venezuela? Just another Trump paradox wrapped in grandiose boasts.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Donald Trump, Chevron Corp.
  2. – 6:00: Donald Trump, Chevron Corp.
  3. – 9:00: Donald Trump
  4. – 12:00: Donald Trump
  5. – 15:00: Donald Trump
  6. – 18:00: Donald Trump

Notable quotes from "Trump THROWS OUT Press from SECRET MEETING with OIL EXECS"

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Full transcript with timestamps

Donald Trump just threw out the press during a disastrous meeting that he was holding in the White House with oil execs where they were discussing how they would carve up Venezuela after Donald Trump's invasion. Donald Trump told members of the press that he needed to then speak with the oil execs in secret so they can discuss how they were going to take the oil from Venezuela. Now during this disastrous meeting, Donald Trump also looked at the oil execs and said, "You see this area? This is where the Golden Ballroom is going to be built," referring to his unlawful ballroom after tearing down the East Wing. And he seemed to be insinuating that they better chip in for his golden ballroom if they want a piece of Venezuela, which is being carved up. So, let me show you what went down. You see Donald Trump here kind of staring at where the Golden Ballroom is going to be as he was shaking down the oil execs.

But here's where Donald Trump tells the press, "If you don't mind, I will ask the press to leave now cuz I'm going to speak with these oil execs about what we can do to carve up Venezuela." Listen to it yourself. Play this clip. So, if you don't mind, I'll ask the press to leave and we will see what kind of a deal we're going to make with these geniuses and uh I think you're going to come out very good. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you, Mr.

Then before that, Donald Trump looked out the window where he was standing in the White House and he's like, "You see this area?" He was speaking to the oil execs. This is where the Golden Ballroom is going to be. And now it's what, like 89,000 square ft. And they're talking about now building a second story to the west wing to deal with the asymmetrical problems caused by the massive east- wing golden ballroom. But here's what Trump says to the oil execs. Let's play it. Well, I got to look at this myself.

Wow. What a what a view. This is the door to the bar. Now, because Donald Trump does not know the names of the oil execs who he was meeting with, he didn't write it down or didn't even try to learn their names. He would refer to the oil executives by the companies that they led. So, he would refer to the Chevron exec as Mr. Chevron. He would refer to the Exxon exec as Mr. Exxon or Mr. Shell for the Shell exec. Watch this here. play this clip.

And if we didn't do what we did, China or Russia would have been in Venezuela. I think I can Where's Mr. Chevron? So, let me ask you, they would have been there if we didn't do this. Do you agree with that? And then also before Donald Trump kicked out the press, before he threw them out of the room to do the secret meeting, Marco Rubio would pass notes to Donald Trump and they were supposed to be private notes, but Donald Trump would then read the notes out loud like this note where Rubio writes, "Go back to Chevron. They want to discuss something." And Donald Trump's like, "Okay, go back to Chevron. You want to discuss something with me here? Watch this clip. Let's play it.

It's already been written off. It's been written off. All right. Thank you. You You'll make it back one way or the other. You're all going to do very well. I think really very well. Marco just gave me a note. Go back to Chevron. They want to discuss something. Go ahead. I'm going back to Chevron. Mark. Thank you, Marco.

Is there was there a question, Mr. President? Yes. Go ahead, Marco. What was What are you saying here,

Mark? So then Donald Trump was asked by CNN that if Maria Karina Machado, the pro- opposition leader, gave you her Nobel Peace Prize, would you allow her to become the leader of Venezuela? And Donald Trump's like, we'll see. You know, no one deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than me. And it's great that she wants to give me her Nobel Peace Prize. So if she does that, maybe she'll have a role. What are you talking about? You've also just anointed Deli Rodriguez or you're supporting Deli Rodriguez who was Maduro's VP. She's an authoritarian.

She used to work in Venezuelan's intelligence services backed by the KGB, backed by Russia. Um, she also is there with this guy named Diodos Cabo, the enforcer for Maduro. So, Donald Trump's just supporting an extension of the Maduro regime right now. But here, Donald Trump says, "Well, if Machado gives him a Nobel Peace Prize, then maybe he'll give her some role." Like, you think Machado is going to work with Deli Rodriguez? Like, do you even understand what's going on in Venezuela right now? He doesn't. Here, play this clip.

Mr. President, thank you so much. I have a question for you on Minneapolis, but on Venezuela and your meeting with Machado next week, if she gives you her Nobel Peace Prize, will that change your view about her running that country?

Well, I have to speak to her. I mean, I'm going to have to speak to her. She might be involved in some aspect of it. I will have to speak to her. I think it's very nice that she wants to come in and that's what I understand the reason is because Norway uh is very embarrassed by what took place. I mean, they're getting decimated. Look, whether people like Trump or don't like Trump, I settled eight wars, big ones. Some going on for 36 years, 32 years, 31 years, 28 years, 25 years. some just getting ready to start like India and Pakistan where already eight jets were shot out of the air and I got it done in rapid order without nuclear weapons. Uh I can't think of anybody in history that should get the Nobel Prize more than me and I don't want to be bragging but nobody else settled wars. Obama got the Nobel Prize. He had no idea why. He still has no idea. He walks around. He says, "I got the Nobel Prize." Why did he get a

Nobel Prize? He got it almost immediately upon attaining office and he didn't do anything and he was a bad president. So, uh I mean you you should get the Nobel Prize for every war you stopped. These were major wars. These were wars that nobody thought could be stopped. President Putin called me and he said about two of the wars that he's been trying to stop them for 10 years. He wasn't able to do it. He couldn't believe it. So, in theory, you should get the Nobel Prize for every war you stopped. Every one of them was major.

But uh and by the way, you can transfer the Nobel Peace Prize in the will of Nobel. It says the prize is non-transferable as he predicted that these types of situations would happen where authoritarians would want to be traded the Nobel Peace Prize to themselves. So he said it's non-transferable. In any event, then the Exxon CEO or who Donald Trump refers to as Mr. Exxon actually gave some facts here about Venezuela. And Mr. Exxon said, "If you look at the commercial constructs of Venezuela, it is quote uninvestable right now under the current circumstances, unless of course the United States subsidizes the oil companies to the tune of like 50 to 100 billion or the United States puts boots on the ground to protect the facilities and the capital expenditures that the oil companies would need to invest in."

The Exxon guy is telling the truth. Like, how do you expect us to invest in Venezuela when it's such an unstable place right now led by an authoritarian regime that you support and you're trading favors about giving you Nobel Peace prizes to then say like what are you doing here? Play this clip.

With respect to Venezuela in particular, we have a very long history in Venezuela. In fact, uh we first got into Venezuela back in 19 1940s. uh we've had our assets seized there twice and so you can imagine to reenter a third time uh would require some pretty significant changes from what we've historically seen here and what is currently the state. If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, uh today it's uninvestable and so significant changes have to be made to those commercial uh frameworks, the legal system. There has to be durable investment protections and there has to be a change to the hydrocarbon uh laws in the country.

We're confident that with this administration and President Trump working uh handinhand with the Venezuelan government that those changes can be put in place. and Donald Trump with zero sense of irony says that you know the problem is Venezuela's really been taken advantage of while Donald Trump and the oil executives do a secret meeting about taking advantage of Venezuela play this clip few other things could ever be you don't there's so much there's so much uh Venezuela's been uh really taken advantage of by a lot of people because they drill very little I mean as as much as you hear they have they drill very very little, very small percentage. But now that'll change and it'll change very rapidly because these are the biggest people and it'll change very rapidly. So then within minutes of Donald Trump saying that nobody deserves a Nobel Peace Prize more than him, he then threatens to invade Greenland. Play this clip.

Thank you. Thank you. And uh the policy question, how much money are you thinking of giving people in Greenland to get them on board with a possible US I'm not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that, but right now uh we are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not. Uh because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor. Okay? I would I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way, but if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way.

And I'm a man. And by the way, I'm a fan of Denmark, too. I have to tell you. And I'm And you know, they've been very nice to me. Uh I'm a big fan. But you know, the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land. Uh I'm sure we had lots of boats go there also. But we need that because if you take a look outside of Greenland right now, there are Russian destroyers. There are Chinese destroyers and bigger. There are Russian submarines all over the place. We're not gonna have Russia or China occupy Greenland. And that's what they're going to do if we don't. So, we're going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult way. Then Donald Trump is asked about the pin that he's wearing. And Donald Trump says that he's wearing a happy Trump pin. He goes, "This is the happy Trump pin." He says, "I'm very rarely happy, but they gave me

a happy Trump pin. Here, play this clip." Middle be democracy, Peter. I I have a policy question, President Trump, but I'm having a hard time seeing here. I see the American flag lapel pin. What is the other lapel pin on your

Somebody gave me this. You know what that is? That's called a happy Trump. And considering the fact that I'm never happy. I'm never satisfied. I will never be satisfied until we make America great again. But we're getting pretty close. I'll tell you what. This is called a happy Trump. Somebody gave it to me. I put it on. Thank you. Thank you. And uh then during this meeting with the oil execs in front of the press before Trump threw the press out, Donald Trump says, you know, Venezuela oil is very, very good. Great oil. Okay. But then in 20, which it's not though, by the way. And then in 2023, Donald Trump says their oil is garbage in Venezuela. Garbage oil. Watch Trump in 2023 versus 2026. We spliced it for you here. Play this clip. But now we're buying oil from Venezuela. So we're making a dictator very rich. Can you believe this? Nobody can believe it.

You know where the oil, you know, their oil is garbage. It's horrible. The worst you can get, tar. It's like tar. And to refine it, you need special plants. And these Venezuelan oil, which is a heavy oil, very good oil, great oil. It's fantastic for certain things like asphalt roads. Best there is in the world for asphalt roads and other things. Next, Donald Trump is asked why he posted the job data early, unlawfully early. Trump posted the jobs report and kind of misrepresented it, but he posted the data last night at 8:20 p.m. when it was not allowed to be posted until this morning. So, he's getting the numbers.

Is he manipulating the numbers? And then he released it the night of and moved the market before you're allowed to release it. He says, "But if people give me things, I just post it." Here, play this clip.

First off, can you respond to the manufacturing? Let's give CNN a chance. You know, I've been fighting so hard to get back into the mainstream.

Mr. President, you posted some numbers actually on Truth Social last night. People saying you posted the job data early when you're not supposed to obviously share it till the next morning. Did Did you do that on purpose?

No. No, I don't know if they posted them. I said, "Post them whenever you get a chance." I don't know. They gave me some numbers. I I po When people give me things, I post them. But the numbers the numbers are amazing. Then Donald Trump was shocked that a reporter from Italy a asked him a question about Iran. Let's play it.

Gentleman with the glasses. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. With those very big glasses, actually.

Yeah. Ferrari, actually. Um, Mr. President, I have two question. Um what do you want the European Union to do in Ukraine? The the European leaders seem pretty divided on Ukraine. And then if you can reiterate this trade message that you have to to the Iranian leader to come the message that you have

you're talking about Iran. Iran. Yeah. What is Iran to do? I'm sorry. Where are you from?

Italy. Oh, nice place. Yeah. Okay. The first question. So what are you asking about Iran for? Well, if you can answer um about Europe and what you think the Europeans should do on Ukraine and then a message.

Well, look, Europe has been doing so much for Ukraine, but uh it hasn't been enough. And obviously that I would say that President Putin is not afraid of Europe. He's afraid of the United States of America is led by me. Then Donald Trump says that the that Venezuela stole America's assets like we were babies. People steal from babies. Or are you saying who who are the babies here? What are you even talking about? But that's why Donald Trump's like one of the reasons we invaded is cuz they treated us like babies. They stole from us like babies. Are you stealing from babies, Donald? Like what does it even mean?

Play this clip. But they stole our assets like we were babies. And the United States did absolutely nothing about it. So now we're doing everything about it. Now we're doing 500% about it. But uh it's it's a long time after the act took place. So they stole from us and it was taken by socialists and communists at the time and Venezuela was going bad, really bad. And as much oil as they have, they're producing almost nothing. Almost nothing, which is just a system. So we're really, if you look at it, we're taking back what was taken from us. They took our oil industry.

rebuilt that entire oil industry started long time ago but they took it and they uh they were very ungracious to this country. Then Donald Trump claims that he won Minnesota three times which he did not. So he spreads lies about the elections. Play this clip. It's a very corrupt state. I feel that I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. It Nobody's won it for since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion and it's a corrupt state, a corrupt voting state and the Republicans ought to get smart and demand on voter ID. They ought to demand maybe same day voting and all of the other things that you have to have to safe election. But I won Minnesota three times and I didn't get credit for it. I did so well in that state every time. The people were they were crying every time after. That's a crooked state. California is a crooked state. many crooked states. We have a

very very dishonest voting system. The last time I won uh 24, the one that just took place, I won because it was too big to rig. You couldn't rig it. It was too big. But I won the state of Minnesota. It's a corrupt voting system with an incompetent governor. A very incompetent governor. Trump is then asked why or if he agrees with J. D. advance referring to Renee Nicole Good who was murdered in cold blood by Donald Trump's SS by Trump's paramilitary by Trump's Gestapo. JD Van said that Renee Nicole Good is a domestic terrorist and part of a left-wing terrorist network. So the reporters asked Donald Trump, "Do you agree with that?" And Trump's like, "Whatever Van says, I'm sure I agree with." Play this clip. on on Minnesota.

The vice president yesterday suggested that Renee Good, who was killed by this ICE officer, was part of a broadle left-wing network. What has your team told you about this broadle left-wing network? Who is in charge of it? Who's part of it? What What's it called?

Well, I haven't seen the vice president's statement, but he's generally very accurate. I hate to say. Uh look uh I watched that yesterday and there are a lot of lot of different forms to it but there was a woman screaming shame shame shame shame. She was a agitator probably a paid agitator but in my opinion she was an agitator a very high level agitator so professional she wouldn't stop screaming I said this isn't a normal situation this is a professional troublemaker because you heard it and I had it. Now, I I will say this. The news sort of turned her down, turned her off because you're trying to watch. She was so loud and so crazy and just not normal. When somebody sees something like that, they don't go screaming and screaming and the same words. So, I guess you could say professional, but I didn't think she did a very good job. You have agitators and we will always be protecting ICE and

we're always going to be protecting our border patrol and our law enforcement. Yes. And then randomly Tucker Carlson is here. Play this clip. Well, there you have it, folks. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 6 million. And thanks for watching. Love this video? Support independent media and unlock exclusive content. Add free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Trump THROWS OUT Press from SECRET MEETING with OIL EXECS"?

Donald Trump (Guest), Marco Rubio (Guest), Mr. Chevron (Guest), Mr. Exxon (Guest), Tucker Carlson (Guest).

What is "Trump THROWS OUT Press from SECRET MEETING with OIL EXECS" about?

Donald Trump dismissed the press during a private meeting with oil executives at the White House to discuss plans for controlling Venezuelan oil in the wake of his administration's proposed invasion. He suggested a connection between their potential financial support for his extravagant Golden Ballroom project and their interests in Venezuela's oil resources.

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

3 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Chevron Corp., Exxon. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Trump THROWS OUT Press from SECRET MEETING with OIL EXECS"?

The episode runs 19 min; the transcript is about 3,434 words in 36 timestamped sections.

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