{"id":40883,"date":"2026-01-08T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=40883"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:07:10","slug":"trump-says-only-time-will-tell-how-long-u-s-controls-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=40883","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says \u2018Only Time Will Tell\u2019 How Long U.S. Controls Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Trump Says \u2018Only Time Will Tell\u2019 How Long U.S. Controls Venezuela<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Trump Says \u2018Only Time Will Tell\u2019 How Long U.S. Controls Venezuela<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">President Trump did not say exactly how long the the United states would control Venezuela, but said that it could last years.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cHow Long do you think you\u2019ll be running Venezuela?\u201d \u201cOnly time will tell. Like three months. six months, a year, longer?\u201d \u201cI would say much longer than that.\u201d \u201cMuch longer, and, and \u2014\u201d \u201cWe have to rebuild. You have to rebuild the country, and we will rebuild it in a very profitable way. We\u2019re going to be using oil, and we\u2019re going to be taking oil. We\u2019re getting oil prices down, and we\u2019re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need. I would love to go, yeah. I think at some point, it will be safe.\u201d \u201cWhat would trigger a decision to send ground troops into Venezuela?\u201d \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to tell you that because I can\u2019t, I can\u2019t give up information like that to a reporter. As good as you may be, I just can\u2019t talk about that.\u201d \u201cWould you do it if you couldn\u2019t get at the oil? Would you do it \u2014\u201d \u201cIf they\u2019re treating us with great respect. As you know, we\u2019re getting along very well with the administration that is there right now.\u201d \u201cHave you spoken to Delcy Rodr\u00edguez?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t want to comment on that, but Marco speaks to her all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">President Trump did not say exactly how long the the United states would control Venezuela, but said that it could last years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>January 8, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Trump Says \u2018Only Time Will Tell\u2019 How Long U.S. Controls Venezuela transcript Back transcript Trump Says \u2018Only Time Will Tell\u2019 How Long U.S. Controls Venezuela President Trump did not say exactly how long the the United states would control Venezuela, but said that it could last years. \u201cHow Long do you think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1223,3483,286,81,811,4723],"class_list":{"0":"post-40883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-controls","9":"tag-long","10":"tag-time","11":"tag-trump","12":"tag-u-s","13":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}