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Sogo

(7,213 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:29 PM Monday

Venezuela is his planned escape hatch.

He'll be on a plane to Venezuela as soon as noon on January 20, 2029.

He wants all the oil for himself, and he wants to be the leader of Venezuela so that when the US seeks to have him extradited back to the US to face trial for his crimes here, he can just say no.

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UpInArms

(55,019 posts)
4. Well, that's not a problem
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:33 PM
Monday

As he left a blueprint for taking out the Venezuelan leadership

chicoescuela

(3,106 posts)
5. 100%. Oil $ will fund his lifestyle for the remainder of his shitty life.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:34 PM
Monday

Melania is on her own

Fiendish Thingy

(23,316 posts)
6. That's silly
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:35 PM
Monday

Trump isn’t going to flee the US- his ego won’t let him, and his real estate and assets would be seized by either his creditors or the government if he did.

Sogo

(7,213 posts)
7. You didn't hear what he said today?
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:40 PM
Monday

Words to the effect that: After I'm done with this, I'll go to Venezuela and be elected President there. I'm polling higher than any politician there. I'll have to learn Spanish but that will be very easy. Language is easy for me.

It was reported that he was "joking" about this. I'd bet the farm he wasn't joking. Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia....Trump can't resist the idea of having that as his own.

haele

(15,418 posts)
10. He doesn't joke.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:54 PM
Monday

He never joked. He just says the outrageous things he's thinking about and only says it joking when he gets caught.

pcdb

(118 posts)
11. He was obviously joking
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:21 PM
Monday

Also, how would Trump get the oil after he leaves office? Is someone going to just give it to him?

Fiendish Thingy

(23,316 posts)
17. And I'd bet my pension he will never flee the country
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 11:20 PM
Monday

And I’d bet my pension and your farm that he will never be president of Venezuela.

Emrys

(9,115 posts)
8. Nah. Trump can't be leader of Venezuela even if he flees there.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:52 PM
Monday

In a neat twist for irony fans, their president must be Venezuelan by birth and hold no other nationality, and must also never have been convicted of any crimes.

Emrys

(9,115 posts)
14. I'd rather spend my time and attention on things that have actually happened and are happening,
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:34 PM
Monday

not things that will never happen except in the diseased imagination of a certifiable loon with far too many people hanging on his every word.

If people let Trump keep yanking their chains, they'll exhaust themselves. And meanwhile, he'll be up to his latest shenanigans in real life.

wnylib

(26,110 posts)
9. He's pissed off so many people in so many countries that
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:54 PM
Monday

one of them might send him to St. Peter before he could reach Venezuela.

But St. Peter could teach him Spanish, starting with "Mi casa no es tu casa."

usonian

(25,553 posts)
15. He'll fly to me, Argentina.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:34 PM
Monday

FABULOUS golf resorts.
Our tax money will buy him one, two, maybe ALL of them.


Wow!

Und Freundlich!!!



But when he spouts evil, I take him at his word.

P.S. Could you adjust the date to April 7, 2026?

peppertree

(23,372 posts)
18. Plus - they're currently governed by a Nazi sympathizer - his (narco-linked) pal Milei
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:40 PM
1 hr ago

Milei shares a lawyer (with power-of-attorney) with the country's top convicted narco, Fred Machado.

The only real problem? With his approval (like Trump's) in the 30s and falling, Milei will probably lose re-election in '27.

And the top contender to replace him? A left-wing Jew, Axel Kicillof - the "Bernie Sanders of the Pampas."



Stay tuned...

EdmondDantes_

(1,832 posts)
19. So your theory is he's going to walk into a country where the current government hates him
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 03:14 PM
46 min ago

The law doesn't allow him to run, he wouldn't have the US military to back him, and he can't even pretend to speak the language and the country is just going to vote for him?

Trump spews a lot of nonsense that has zero bearing on reality.

If he were to flee, Venezuela would be pretty low on the list.

Russia, Argentina, Hungary if Orban maintains control, Belarus, maybe Saudi Arabia. Not many places would want him.

Johonny

(26,251 posts)
20. I assume they'd hang him as soon as he arrived
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 03:30 PM
29 min ago

His popularity there is only in his imagination

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