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“Venezuela” said in 187 of 667 transcripts, 660 times.
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Jan 9, 2026 Other 2 times
…hundreds of billions of dollars and drilling oil, and it's good for Venezuela and it's great for the United States. A lot of money is…
…some people would say it's a miracle, actually, what we've done. And Venezuela is happy. I think they're all going to be happy. Thank you…
Jan 9, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Oil & Gas Executives 45 times
…we're doing really well. We had a situation 3 days ago with Venezuela, and we're getting along extremely well with the people of Venezuela—both…
…going to discuss how these great American companies can help rapidly rebuild Venezuela's dilapidated oil industry and bring millions of barrels of oil production to…
…do you hear that, Peter?—of oil was given to us by Venezuela. That's a lot of oil. It's about $4 billion worth, and it's…
Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 4 times
…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…
…had Kamala come in, I believe that our country would have been Venezuela on steroids. I used to say that during the campaign, "If I…
Jan 4, 2026 Other 14 times
…you know, what you're talking. We have to do one thing in Venezuela: bring it back. It's a dead country right now. It's a country…
…I had lost the election, we would have been a dead country. Venezuela—we would have been Venezuela on steroids. Venezuela right now is a…
…and they're going to do a great job for the people of Venezuela, and they're going to represent us well. But you know, the infrastructure…
Jan 3, 2026 Press conference Kalshi: Trump holds press conference on Venezuela 35 times
…States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela. Overwhelming American military power—air, land, and sea—was used to launch…
…out 97 percent. And those drugs mostly come from a place called Venezuela. We're going to run the country until such time as we can…
…about. We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela, and that includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 7 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…
Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 3 times
…selling it into our country is subject to attack. No. Not just Venezuela, no. Venezuela has been very bad. Venezuela has been really bad in…
Dec 1, 2025 Tele-rally Kalshi: Trump holds Telerally for Matt Van Epps 1 time
…country from all over the world. From the Congo they came, from Venezuela. And, as you know, we're doing a hell of a job getting…
Nov 30, 2025 Other 1 time
…a good chance we can make a deal. Yes, because we consider Venezuela to be not a very friendly country. They sent millions of people…
Nov 25, 2025 Other 1 time
…that with their—with the different staffs. But we might talk, on Venezuela. Say it again? What? Yes. Right. If we can save lives, if…
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 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a meeting on the World Cup 5 times
…I don't rule out anything. We just have to take care of Venezuela. They dumped hundreds of thousands of people into our country from prisons…
…of people pouring through our border, and many of them came from Venezuela, including Tren de Aragua, the gang. And I guess what I'm hearing…
…a dumping ground. So I'm not in love with the people running Venezuela. I love Venezuela. I love the people of Venezuela. But what they've…
Nov 16, 2025 Other 5 times
…and others that do that. Okay? Any questions? No. No, update on Venezuela. It allows us to do that, but we haven't said we're going…
…a deflection from the tremendous success that we're having as a party. Venezuela would like to talk. What does it mean? You tell me. I…
…not letting drugs come through Mexico. We're not letting them come through Venezuela. And let Congress know about it." We don't have to get their…
Nov 14, 2025 Other 1 time
…you what it is, but we made a lot of progress with Venezuela in terms of stopping drugs from pouring in. But we have a…
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…
Nov 2, 2025 Other 5 times
…deadlines. I do what I do, but I don't set—whether it's Venezuela or anything else, I don't set deadlines. Well, how could I answer…
…kind of a question is it? Look, we'll see what happens with Venezuela. Venezuela sent us thousands and thousands—hundreds of thousands of people from…
…Anybody that they didn't want, they sent them through our country. And Venezuela was one of the worst abusers, no question about it. Well, all…
Oct 26, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…Go ahead, please. Yes. I don't think we're going to be discussing Venezuela. They're not involved with Venezuela. They're not dealing with Venezuela. You know…
Oct 24, 2025 Other 1 time
…say that. Okay. Go ahead, please. Well, we're going to see with Venezuela. I can tell you one thing: We stopped all drugs virtually from…
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 17, 2025 Other 1 time
…coming in from prisons, from jails, from all over the place, from Venezuela, many countries. We're not going to do that. So the shutdown continues…
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 15, 2025 Press conference Kalshi: Trump Press Conference 3 times
…that probably not—many, many countries have done it, but not like Venezuela. They were down and dirty. And the other thing are drugs. We…
…it be a ridiculous question for me to answer? But I think Venezuela is feeling heat, but I think a lot of other countries are…
Oct 14, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Bilateral meeting with President of Argentina 5 times
…was very successful at one point, and it can be again, like Venezuela. Venezuela was very, very successful, and now it's a dictatorship. So we…
…very bad gangs. You know, it's no different than other countries. Like Venezuela sent their gangs into us, and we took care of those gangs…
…loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina. Okay? Well, Venezuela has done a couple of things very badly. Number one, we get…
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 30, 2025 Other 3 times
…have actual peace in the Middle East. We'll see what happens with Venezuela. Venezuela has been very dangerous with drugs and with other things. And…
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 21, 2025 Other 1 time
…don't even find cruise liners anymore. There's nothing in the water near Venezuela. It's actually strange. You know that means? That means there are no…
Sep 21, 2025 Other 1 time
…Well, I don't want to say, but we'll see what happens with Venezuela. I don't want to say— . Yes, I would. I will. What is…
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 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump-Starmer Bilateral 1 time
…the Congo being released into the United States. Prisons opened up in Venezuela and many other countries pouring into the United States. And I couldn't…
Sep 14, 2025 Other 4 times
…know exactly what's happened. A lot of drugs are coming out of Venezuela. A lot of Tren de Aragua. They're trying to get out, but…
…them. I think they're probably considered worse. And we don't like what Venezuela is sending us. Whether it's their drugs or whether it's their gang…
…boat traffic. I can't imagine why. Well, we'll see what happens. Look, Venezuela is sending us their gang members, their drug dealers, and drugs. It's…
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 3, 2025 Meeting 5 times
…do this." We have to protect our country, and we're going to. Venezuela has been a very bad actor. They've been—as you know, they…
…of them very quickly, but they're out of here. They're gone. But Venezuela has been very bad, both in terms of drugs and sending some…
…out—you don't know this, but they emptied out their prisons in Venezuela, and they emptied them out into the United States of America, and…
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 26, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…they went into this gang—I think it was Tren de Aragua, Venezuela—and they weren't nice to this group of people. They were—the…
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…
Aug 11, 2025 Press conference 1 time
…our country illegally. They shouldn't have been allowed in. They come from Venezuela. They come from all over the world. We're going to get them…
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…I think that we have a lot of people acting—we have Venezuela acting up in a different way. They're sending—they continue to send…
…rebuff to our border. They continue to send drugs into our country—Venezuela. They've been very nasty, and we can't let that happen. But we…
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…