Donald Trump reveals plans to run for president in another country
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Rhianna Benson
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Topics: Donald Trump, US News, News, Politics, World News
Believing himself to be so population in another nation, Donald Trump has threatened to run for presidency there.
The US leader held a press conference in the White House on Monday (6 Apr), where he reflected on his January capture of Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilla Flores.
The arrest was made by force as part of a middle-of-the-night military operation, after which Trump immediately placed Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez in charge.
Maduro with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.
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Discussing the takeover this week, Trump remarked that he'd likely poll rather highly in the South American country if he were ever to run there.
"The people of Venezuela, they say, if I ran for president of Venezuela," the Republican leader claimed. "I'm polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela, so after I'm finished with this, I can go to Venezuela.
"I will quickly learn Spanish. It won't take too long. I'm good at language, and I will go to Venezuela."
Trump went on to vow: "I'm going to run for president. But we're very happy with the president-elect that we have right now, the people that are running it."
Giving his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio - who speaks fluent Spanish, being the son of Cuban parents - a shout-out, the President gushed: "He’s got a language advantage over me, ‘cause I’m not learning your damn language.
"I don’t have time. I was okay with languages but I’m not gonna spend time learning your language. That much I won’t do."
Turning the conversation back to his abduction of Maduro, he claimed the operation was 'over in 45 minutes', claiming American forces have since obtained hundreds of millions of barrels of oil from the nation.
"We have great people running Venezuela," the father-of-five continued. "The relationship is good, and we are a partner with Venezuela, and we've taken hundreds of millions of barrels (of oil), already, (it) is in Houston, refined and out, and paid for that war many, many times over."
He went on to link the takeover of Venezuela to the US-Israeli conflict against Iran, claiming the outcome of the latter could be similar.
"To the victor belong the spoils… we haven't had that in this country probably in 100 years," Trump added.
Arguing that the obtainment of oil could repay the cost of expensive military operations, he continued: "It paid for that war many, many times over."