"He got a taste of violence & clearly wants more. ...

Trump regime spokespeople have offered a range of explanations for the unprovoked and unnecessary violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty & international law. But Trump’s breathless enthusiasm for illegal violence, beamed to his home/entertainment hub for his personal delectation, is perhaps more telling than any post facto rationalization."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman
/13

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-venezuela-coup

"This is what happens when you are the obedient servant of a malignant narcissist, determined to please this felonious, failed businessman who’s easily bored by strategic planning and driven by whim, vengeance and a bottomless desire for money, power and attention."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman
/14

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/this-is-what-happens-when-america

"The thing about MAGA, though, is that the policies and rights and wrongs — intervening abroad or not, pardoning violent criminals or not, sexually abusing children or not — don’t actually matter. Ideology does not matter. Morals do not matter.

What matters: Domination. Subjugation. Abusing the less powerful simply because it feels good."

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #abuse
/18

throughline.news/p/the-plundering-imperial-presidency

"It’s all about Trump’s self-aggrandizing delusions. And it will accomplish nothing except to make America look even less trustworthy and weaker than it did before."

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #RealityTV
/17

"Trump’s self-image as the ultimate dealmaker explains why he was so ready to believe, falsely, that he controlled Venezuela. It also explains his insistence that by, as he imagined, seizing Venezuela, he had gained a valuable prize in the form of its oil. ...

It’s important to understand that the confrontation with Venezuela has nothing to do with the national interest."

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #RealityTV
/16

"Trump does what he wants, like one does with things one owns. You don’t ask your table what room it wants to be in and most employers don’t ask employees what tasks they want to do. In Trump’s mind he owns the country and its power. He won it fair and square in the 2024 election. Everything that stands in the way of that basic premise is an obstacle to be overturned."

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/20

"My point is that it’s a mistake to think there’s a 'real' reason mixed in with other subterfuges and rationales, or that it’s important to find out which one the 'real' reason is. It’s not that linear or logical."

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/22

"I don’t think there’s any actual reason we’re invading Venezuela or trying to decapitate its government or whatever we’re doing. I think there are two or three different factions in the government each pushing a very hostile policy toward Venezueala for differing reasons. Meanwhile, Trump thinks it’s cool and has a personal beef with Maduro."

Josh Marshall

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/21

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/brief-point

"Trump has always been drunk on fantasies of power. His entire rhetorical repertoire consists of frantic boasts and foolish words. … Trump is our president. He’s acting in our name."

~ William Kristol

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman
/38

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-and-foolishness-of-trump-foreign-policy

"Five years ago, almost to the day, Trump launched an assault on our Capitol, watched the battle on a screen as it unfolded in real time—just as he did during the Venezuela operation—and egged on his forces as they hunted our vice president.1 Maduro’s regime isn’t the first government Trump has tried to topple in our hemisphere. It’s the second."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman #Jan6
/39

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/which-countries-will-trump-invade-next-after-venezuela-maduro

"Five years ago, almost to the day, Trump launched an assault on our Capitol, watched the battle on a screen as it unfolded in real time—just as he did during the Venezuela operation—and egged on his forces as they hunted our vice president.1 Maduro’s regime isn’t the first government Trump has tried to topple in our hemisphere. It’s the second."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman #Jan6
/39

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/which-countries-will-trump-invade-next-after-venezuela-maduro

"Trump has always been drunk on fantasies of power. His entire rhetorical repertoire consists of frantic boasts and foolish words. … Trump is our president. He’s acting in our name."

~ William Kristol

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw #narcissism #megalomania #madman
/38

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-and-foolishness-of-trump-foreign-policy

"Overnight, in a press gaggle with reporters that I personally watched, Donald Trump threatened American intervention in six separate countries."

~ Aaron Parnas

See the hashtags below for a list of the six.

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #Congress #NSS #Colombia #Mexico #Greenland #Iran #Cuba #megalomania #narcissism #madman #DonroeDoctrine
/36

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-threatens-american-intervention?

"Overnight, in a press gaggle with reporters that I personally watched, Donald Trump threatened American intervention in six separate countries."

~ Aaron Parnas

See the hashtags below for a list of the six.

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #Congress #NSS #Colombia #Mexico #Greenland #Iran #Cuba #megalomania #narcissism #madman #DonroeDoctrine
/36

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-threatens-american-intervention?

"My point is that it’s a mistake to think there’s a 'real' reason mixed in with other subterfuges and rationales, or that it’s important to find out which one the 'real' reason is. It’s not that linear or logical."

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/22

"I don’t think there’s any actual reason we’re invading Venezuela or trying to decapitate its government or whatever we’re doing. I think there are two or three different factions in the government each pushing a very hostile policy toward Venezueala for differing reasons. Meanwhile, Trump thinks it’s cool and has a personal beef with Maduro."

Josh Marshall

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/21

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/brief-point

"Trump does what he wants, like one does with things one owns. You don’t ask your table what room it wants to be in and most employers don’t ask employees what tasks they want to do. In Trump’s mind he owns the country and its power. He won it fair and square in the 2024 election. Everything that stands in the way of that basic premise is an obstacle to be overturned."

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/20

"The U.S. president just went to war with another country and now will apparently occupy it for essentially no reason, with no warning and with public opinion overwhelming against all of it. Someone quipped on BlueSky last night that Trump hadn’t even taken the proper constitutional steps to lie the country into this war."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #Congress
/19

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/first-thoughts-on-trumps-excellent-venezuela-adventure

"The thing about MAGA, though, is that the policies and rights and wrongs — intervening abroad or not, pardoning violent criminals or not, sexually abusing children or not — don’t actually matter. Ideology does not matter. Morals do not matter.

What matters: Domination. Subjugation. Abusing the less powerful simply because it feels good."

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #domination #abuse
/18

throughline.news/p/the-plundering-imperial-presidency

"It’s all about Trump’s self-aggrandizing delusions. And it will accomplish nothing except to make America look even less trustworthy and weaker than it did before."

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #narcissism #violence #madman #RealityTV
/17