Now, President Donald Trump wants Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro out of power. Maduro’s “days are numbered,” Trump told Politico in an interview released on Dec. 9. His Administration considers Maduro the head of a government-sponsored cocaine smuggling syndicate.

Months into a pressure campaign that has seen the US military move thousands of troops and a carrier strike group into the Caribbean and President Donald Trump issue repeated threats against Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro,

At the Libertarian Party’s May 2024 national convention, President Donald Trump asked for an endorsement and promised, “We believe that the job of the United States military is not to wage endless regime change wars around the globe, senseless wars.”