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“Maduro / Venezuela” said in 63 of 270 transcripts, 174 times.
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Feb 18, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Black History Month Reception 1 time
…and you saw that with our attack a few weeks ago on Venezuela. We have the greatest military in the world. We make the greatest…
Feb 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to Fort Bragg Military Families 3 times
…of you were involved in that—and what we did recently in Venezuela. Nobody ever saw anything like that happen. A Venezuelan general who was…
…right here—to ever live, frankly, successfully captured the outlaw dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and brought him back to face American justice, where he's…
Feb 11, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Champion of Coal Event 1 time
…that we're very close to—become very close to, and that's called Venezuela, where we're taking in, in this case, oil. We had 50 million…
Feb 5, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at National Prayer Breakfast 3 times
…2 bombers in Iran and—and you saw it with—recently, with Venezuela, where we're getting along fantastically with leadership. But— —become a great relations…
…we get it. In his very quiet manner, he's brutal. Just ask Venezuela. Ask Iran. They're negotiating now. They don't want to—they don't want…
…say it when we give the okay for, like, the attack on Venezuela or the attack on Iran. He says, I say, we all say…
Feb 3, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump signs Bill to Reopen the Government 1 time
…to do that, and we will. We're getting along very well in Venezuela with the leadership. Very, very well. You know, we took in 50…
Feb 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…it's a failed nation now, and they're not getting any money from Venezuela, and they're not getting any money from anywhere. It's a failed nation…
…have a—— ——a tremendous force going there, just like we did in Venezuela. Even bigger. And they'll be there soon, and I'd like to see…
Jan 30, 2026 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…heading toward Iran right now. Even larger than what we had in Venezuela. It's still in front of Venezuela. The Venezuelan situation—the leadership is…
…They murdered people. We had 11,888 murderers. We had prisons, including Venezuela—but Venezuela opened its prisons. So did the Congo. The Congo, in…
Jan 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks in Iowa 4 times
…over the world, they're open up—the Congo, all over South America, Venezuela, they opened up their jails. We've got to get them out. I…
…won—if they win, that group, that ideology wins, you will be Venezuela on steroids. It's—and I've said it for years. And you know…
…have a country. And just weeks ago, at a spectacular operation in Venezuela, we brought the outlaw dictator Nicolás Maduro to face American justice—in…
Jan 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…bad here. If they killed people in their country, whether it was Venezuela or the Congo or any of the countries where they came. In…
Jan 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum 7 times
…a day. And last week, we picked up 50 million barrels from Venezuela alone. Venezuela has been an amazing place for so many years, but…
…they'll be making more money than they've made in a long time. Venezuela is going to do fantastically well. We appreciate all of the cooperation…
…they said, "Let's make a deal." More people should do that. But Venezuela's going to make more money in the next 6 months than they've…
Jan 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in Southern Boulevard Dedication Ceremony 6 times
…have gotten in, this country would have been a place known as "Venezuela on steroids." It would have been in big trouble. So we did…
…the roughest people—Tren de Aragua. The jails are emptied out from Venezuela. Now, I like Venezuela very much. I say good things. I don't…
…at Mar-a-Lago, we apprehended the outlaw known as dictator Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela for his crimes against the United States and the rest…
Jan 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Health Roundtable 3 times
…where we came up with a little concept about a place called Venezuela. How did that work out? And this is going to be the…
…is so big. It's going to work just like that. What is—Venezuela was so amazing, but I equate that to other things, because we…
…likes MAGA. So we want to make this precision just like a Venezuela; just like the attack on the Iran nuclear weapons, which wiped that…
Jan 14, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in a signing ceremony 3 times
…found and is in jail right now. And that's the leaker on Venezuela. We had a very bad leaker. So there could be some others…
…there's everything we can do. You found that out last week with Venezuela. There's everything we can do about things such as that. Not going…
…lot of things. And I think we're getting along very well with Venezuela. Yes, please. Yes. He's fantastic. The person is fantastic. It's a he…
Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 11 times
…all I'm doing is spewing off what the hell we've done. Even Venezuela wasn't too bad, was it? Huh? But you have people—Democrats—they…
…1 year ago, we would have been, as I have often said, Venezuela on steroids. Now I'm Venezuela's biggest fan. We're working with them. But…
…to a disaster—you know, a disaster. And we would have been Venezuela on steroids. And we're bringing Venezuela back, and we're going to be…
Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 6 times
…highest quality printer in the—and you have a woman, "Huh, free Maduro." And the sign is before we even did the attack. You know…
…we did such a great job on the border. By the way, Venezuela—everyone, they're marching in the streets. They love it. Except in New…
…come in from prisons from all over the world—but in particular, Venezuela, Tren de Aragua. Tren de Aragua comes in. And Tren de Aragua…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 8 times
…Please. No. No. Anywhere. Anywhere drugs are pouring in. Anywhere. Not just Venezuela. No. Yes. Yes. Going to do with what? We're going to keep…
…the ships also. Yes, please. Yes. I have— We're talking about with Venezuela? Well, you had a different kind of a President before me. They…
…mind drugs pouring into our country. They didn't mind the jails of Venezuela and Tren de Aragua being emptied into the U.S., where they take…
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…in that shouldn't be here. They came from the jails—all over Venezuela, all over the world—the Congo. And now, when they come in…
Dec 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…you know, a lot of bad people from all over the world. Venezuela emptied their prisons into our country. We had Tren de Aragua, which…
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 6 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…
…blowing up cartel 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…
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 3 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…
…States military to destroy Venezuelan terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicolás Maduro. To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of…
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…