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“Garbage”: How Trump Used to Talk About Venezuelan Oil
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January 9, 2026
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1:42Now PlayingTrump spent years hating on Venezuela’s “horrible” oil. What changed?
Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump called the country’s crude “horrible,” “tar,” “the dirtiest stuff you can imagine,” and the “worst oil probably anywhere in the world.” But, less than two years later, President Trump has framed his move to depose Nicolás Maduro in large part as a move to seize this “garbage” oil.
His reservations about the quality of the fossil fuels he plans to acquire have disappeared. Instead, the president has suggested he may be willing to send in more US troops to keep control of it and that he’s not “afraid of boots on the ground.” Gone, too, are Trump’s warnings that Venezuelan heavy crude will pollute the air in American communities when it’s refined stateside.
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