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LMAO Trump "named" the legally designated successor in case of emergencies President? Does Trump also "name" the sun as rising every morning?
Don't give them ideas
Give libs a year or two and they will literally be worshipping Trump as Amon Ra
They'll still hate Russia and Putin tho
Trump didn't name anyone wtf is this weird coping by the US media. She is literally the VP.
Yes, but what they meant is that Trump unilaterally declared regime change and want her to loot Venezuela with him "Interim President and a US Partner in Governing the Country". He generally made a really crass and open bribe proposition on a national scale.
Wait for the "hand picked successor" headlines in a few days.
Rodriguez was literally Marudo’s VP the fuck do you mean Trump “named” her president?
there was a public statement from him or one of the lackeys. i think they meant to name a new 
and fucked up
excuse me, Guaido is president
Trump is revisionist
It was on the tv state media earlier tonight.. Trump apparently "warned her" against saying such things
God forbid a woman have a hobby
Gotta love that not even Trump is paying any attention to the new Guaido who has been praying for an invasion of Venezuela for years.
I find it funny how Guaido himself has been forgotten about
Historians in the future will have fun digging through geological layers of forgotten "Venezuelan governments in exile"
Didn't he say something along the lines of she doesn't have the required respect or support 
They gave her the Nobel Peace Prize instead of him. He's salty about that.
No wait not like that!
Or whatever.
axios is running this story claiming rodriguez changed her tune after being threatened with further bombing, paywalled tho
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/04/trump-venezuela-delcy-rodriguez-maduro-atlantic-interview
Seems like fake news, she is just repeating what Maduro said, that the US and Venezuela should cooexist peacefully, and that if the US wants Venezuelan Oil they'll have to pay the same price as everyone else, but she also said (like maduro) that if the US wants they can work together in extracting and processing the oil (Biden had promised to send Venezuela new parts after the Barbados Agreement).
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