Name: Trump Kidnaps President Maduro, Targets Venezuelan Oil & Ditches "America First" | The Daily Show
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Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona will be joining us.

Now, just today, just today, the senator had his rank stripped and his retirement pay docked by the Secretary of Defense, War Pete Hegseth Homelander.

I will ask him if he knows we do not pay our guests.

But let's get right to the big story, ladies and gentlemen.

This weekend, President Trump and an elite team of Delta IV special operators removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power.

They're actually friends and quite frankly, I think business partners.

I believe these two have more of a heated rivalry.

No, I'm talking about the now former president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who was reverse iced and imported.

Look, I know that clip makes him seem benign, almost kind of comical, but.

But the truth is Maduro oversaw a repressive regime that impoverished his nation, silenced dissent, and killed thousands.

But his iron rule and a cappella terror came to an end on Friday night when US Special forces raided Caracas, Venezuela's only city as far as we know, and

snatched Nicolas Maduro out of his bedroom, apparently before he could even sleep.

His aura ring must have been like, you had a bad night.

And as it unfolded, Donald Trump was overseeing it all from a secure location.

I don't want to be a dick or a nitpicker, but

is this the most secure location in Mar a Lago?

Behind the curtain, you throw up in front of the catering kitchen.

This is a matter of utmost national security.

Dessert's gonna have to come out through the service entrance.

That was me acting as though I was coming out of that.

But obviously, despite the makeshift command center, this was a highly technical and complex operation that required months of training and preparation.

After months of work by our intelligence teammates to find Maduro and understand how he moved, where he lived, where he traveled what he ate, what he wore, what?

Well, that does explain this photo from the raid.

Daphne, we debated before the show, is it mildly racist that we gave him a Chihuahua?

Is that because, basically we were saying, like, is that because Chihuahuas from Mexico, this is Venezuela.

And I thought, well, so there is some nuance to it, but still mildly racist.

Now, obviously, this is actually a very fraught moment.

It is highly unusual for any government, any sovereign nation to violate the airspace and territory of another sovereign nation and hit the grab and go on their president.

Explaining it will require the deft hand of an accomplished statesman.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the President of the United States addressing the nation in this solemn, solemn moment.

The United States armed forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela.

Or if you look back to the Jimmy Carter days, there were different days.

Whether it's in Washington, D.C. where we have a totally safe city, Restaurants are opening.

They're walking their daughters, they're walking their children, their wives.

Restaurants are opening all over Washington, D.C.

So in closing, if we hadn't grabbed Maduro, you'd still be taking Ubers to Ruth's.

Chris, unless you think I'm making our president look cavalier in this moment, here's Trump describing how he experienced this consequential operation.

I mean, I watched it literally like I was watching a television show, and

then I flipped over to see who was on Kimmel.

I mean, can you believe he still gets to interview Millie Bobby Brown?

Anyway, back to abducting the President of Venezuela.

Look, no one knows how this operation is going to work out, but

based on the United States track record, my guess is we're going to be really happy about this for a couple of weeks.

And then 30 years from now, there will be a Venezuelan leftist revolution, and

the new government will point to this moment as the reason our embassy there is on fire, and

it will absolutely ruin a Democrat's presidency.

And remember, the reason MAGA was so high on Donald Trump was that he was the guy who wasn't going to get involved with this kind of shit anymore.

And we don't want to be the world's policeman.