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“Venezuela” said in 45 of 239 transcripts, 104 times.
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Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 3 times
…worst—most violent criminals anywhere on Earth—from many countries, not just Venezuela. Venezuela emptied their jails into our country, but others have also. The…
…pathetic man who was run by Tren de Aragua. The criminals from Venezuela took over sections of Colorado, and he was afraid to do anything…
Dec 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Bill Signing Ceremony 2 times
…don't want to say that. But it's not only land strikes on Venezuela, it's land strikes on horrible people that are bringing in drugs and…
…and that's what's happening. So it doesn't necessarily have to be in Venezuela. It's people that are bringing in drugs to our country are targets…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 3 times
…11,888 murderers come into our country. Many of them are from Venezuela. We had thousands of Tren de Aragua, the gang, come in from…
…the most violent gang. That comes out of—from the prisons of Venezuela. It came out of the prisons of Venezuela. So it has to…
Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela—a large tanker, very large. Largest one ever seized, actually. And other…
Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 2 times
…war. The Congo, their entire prison population was sent into our country. Venezuela, their entire prison population was dumped into our country. And now we…
…knocks the crap out of them, that—with the drug dealers from Venezuela and others. That same missile, think of it, from hundreds of miles…
Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 2 times
…told him a couple of things. We'll see what happens with that. Venezuela sends us drugs, but Venezuela sends us people that they shouldn't be…
Nov 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Presidential Turkey Pardon 2 times
…700 people—career criminals and people that came to this city from Venezuela and many other places. They were let out of prisons and they…
…were Tren de Aragua—a lot of Tren de Aragua. That's from Venezuela. And we got them all the hell out of our country or…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 5 times
…are hell-bent on turning America into a communist Cuba or socialist Venezuela, and you see what happened to those places. For generations, Miami has…
…people from prisons. We don't want prisons dumped into our country like Venezuela did. They emptied their prisons into our country. We don't want that…
…terrorists and—we're blowing them up—linked to the Maduro regime in Venezuela and others. Look, it's not just—it's not just Venezuela. But a…
Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 5 times
…No, it's not accurate. No. It's false. But we're not happy with Venezuela for a lot of reasons, drugs being one of them. But also…
…years ago when everybody was pouring in. But we're very unhappy with Venezuela because of what they've done. They've emptied their prisons into our country…
…had running our country: very stupid people. So we're not happy with Venezuela, I will tell you. Yes. Yes, please. Go ahead. Are you okay…
Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 4 times
…they were literally emptying out insane asylums into our country. This is Venezuela, but other countries also, not only Venezuela. And speaking of Venezuela, we've…
…and drugs coming into this country, a lot of them coming from Venezuela. A lot of them come from Mexico and Colombia too, in all…
Oct 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 1 time
…along the way. She—they've—they need a lot of help in Venezuela. It's a basic disaster. So—and you could also say it was…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…South America. No, but from all over. A lot came in from Venezuela. Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country. That's why they have…
…had that problem. It's very interesting. It's amazing. It's just like in Venezuela—you've seen the boats going. "We can't find any more boats." They're…
…any more boats on the ocean. You don't see any boats around Venezuela. There's nothing. As President, I will never hesitate to defend our people…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 2 times
…There aren't too many boats that are traveling on the seas by Venezuela. They tend not to want to travel very quickly anymore. And we…
…world—MS–13 and Tren de Aragua. Tren de Aragua is from Venezuela, by the way. Such organizations torture, maim, mutilate, and murder with impunity…
Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…in 25 million people that—look, many criminals. Jails were open from Venezuela, from many other countries, and they were let out of jail and…
Sep 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…world, they were—entered our country, from jails. The prison population of Venezuela was emptied out into our country, and that's what we're doing now…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…the individual instance. You know, we don't want drugs coming in from Venezuela or anybody else or anyplace else, and we'll be tough on that…
…that billions of dollars of drugs are pouring into our country from Venezuela. The prisons of Venezuela have been opened up to our country. They've…
…of dollars and—billions of dollars of drugs are pouring out of Venezuela and other countries. Look, China—what they're doing with fentanyl is a…
Sep 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…in for a long time. And we just—these came out of Venezuela, and coming out very heavily from Venezuela—a lot of things are…
Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…came from Africa. They came from Asia. They came from South America. Venezuela, in particular, they were coming in—Tren de Aragua and the toughest…
Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…country from all over the world—not just South America but from Venezuela—but from all over the world, they came, and they came by…
Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…the Congo. They came from South America. A lot of—came from Venezuela. They emptied their jails into our country. Can you imagine they allowed…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…members, drug dealers, people—oh, jails being emptied out into our country. Venezuela emptied out its— almost its entire prison population into our country. But…
Jun 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a "pack." Some of these packs come out of the jails of Venezuela. They come from places that you don't want to know about. They're…
Jun 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…people that we don't want to—we have prisoners. They emptied out—Venezuela and many countries, they emptied out their prisons into the United States…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…jails of countries from all over the world—from the Congo, from Venezuela, from all over the place. They emptied out. There's just—many of…
May 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and terrorists and people from jails. They emptied out jails. You know, Venezuela, their crime is down 72 percent because they took all the criminals…
Apr 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…that these vicious gangs have been sent by the foreign regime in Venezuela to foment violence and instability in the United States of America. Can't…
Apr 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…They came in from mental institutions. They came in from gangs in Venezuela and other countries all over the world, not just South America. They…
Apr 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…allowed open borders and people to come in—if you look at Venezuela, their crime is down by 72 percent. You know why? They took…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…of the sanctions. They—nobody could buy oil. We did that to Venezuela just recently, and we'll do it to other countries if we have…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…take over; they want these people coming back. Tren de Aragua from Venezuela, the Venezuela jails, that cut off the fingers of a man in…
Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…if I thought he wasn't doing the job. I did it with Venezuela—secondary tariffs—and you know what happened? Every boat left the harbor…
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…day. But today, as you know, we did something with respect to Venezuela. You heard about that. And that will be quite important. We'll be…
…case, call me. Yes. That's right. If they buy their oil from Venezuela, then they have to pay a 25-percent tariff to do business…
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…international, in that sense. They're a group of thugs. They come from Venezuela. They come from the prisons of Venezuela. They're very, very dangerous people…
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and charged with this heinous crime are two illegal alien monsters from Venezuela, released into America by the last administration through their ridiculous open border…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…that during the Biden administration. They never said it during my administration. Venezuela has taken them back. They were all—Colombia has taking them back…
Feb 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…countries. Yes, go ahead, please. Yes. Sure. Well, you know, we had Venezuela on the run, and it looked like that was going to be…
…Government—in the United States Government that are involved in that. And Venezuela is a little bit early. But you know, we were not buying…
…gold—we have more than anybody—they started paying a fortune to Venezuela. And we're looking at that actually. Why did they do that? Why…
Feb 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…country—this is what they're doing. When you allow gang members from Venezuela, but many other countries, coming into our country. We're getting them all…
Feb 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…from all over the country but really from all over the world. Venezuela let out so many people. You know, their crime rate is down…
Feb 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…things to me. They said they wouldn't take the—anybody back in Venezuela, and right now they're flying them right back into Venezuela, and lot…
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…whatever may be existing. Yep. No, we want to do something with Venezuela. We've been—I've been a very big opponent of Venezuela and Maduro…
…lot of different people. But we're—we are for the people of Venezuela. We're for the Venezuelan Americans. If you look at it, we have…
…around the Doral area. That's where—that's really— they call it "Little Venezuela," right? And they voted for me close to a hundred percent. So…
Jan 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…everybody that's bad is going to be thrown—if you look at Venezuela, Venezuela's crime is down 77 percent because they've taken their gang members…
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…You'll see crime all over the country dry up. Essentially, that's what Venezuela and other countries are doing. They're getting rid of their criminals and…
Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…going down by 10 and 15 and 20 percent every 6 months? Venezuela, their crime rate is down by 74.2 percent because they took…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…Stranger things have happened. Say it? Well, we're going to see on Venezuela. We're looking at Venezuela very strongly. It's a country I know very…
…about that too, because we're going to probably stop buying oil from Venezuela. We don't need their oil. Well, it could be, but we don't…
…oil. We have plenty of oil for ourselves, so—— That will change Venezuela quite a bit. No. No. I can't imagine even being called that…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…streets of Venezuelan and deposit in our country, and many—not just Venezuela. You know, crime in Venezuela is down 74 percent because they took…