🚨 Trump Just Admitted That America Will Be a Colonial Power in Venezuela for YEARS to Come. It's All So Evil.

This isn’t foreign policy. It’s colonial plunder—said out loud, on the record, in the Oval Office.

Trump just went on the record with The New York Times and admitted what so many of us already knew: the United States doesn’t just want to “influence” Venezuela. Trump believes America will control it—for years—and take its oil.

That is colonialism. That is imperialism. That is theft and piracy with a flag on it.

Before I break down what Trump said and why it should shake the world, please become a member today. I keep this work free for the world—for readers in Gaza, for students in public schools, for families living in deep poverty, for elders on fixed incomes—because a smaller circle of people who can afford it chooses to carry the cost. Please click here to become a member and please click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member. Your support keeps this work free for them, and even for you when you can’t afford to pay.

Now let’s deal with what Trump just confessed.

“Only time will tell.”
That’s what Trump told The New York Times when asked how long the United States intends to control Venezuela.

Then he was asked again, more directly: three months? six? a year? longer?

Trump answered: “I would say much longer.”

And then he said the part no empire ever says this plainly unless it believes it is untouchable:

“We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil.”

Family, that is not a “gaffe.” That is not “colorful language.” That is the mission statement.

A U.S. president is openly describing resource extraction from another country as the outcome of a military operation. He is describing Venezuela as if it is a property the United States can manage, harvest, and profit from.

That is the definition of imperialism.

And since Trump’s people love to play dumb, let’s define these terms plainly—once—so anybody can understand them.

Imperialism is when a powerful nation uses force, threats, sanctions, or economic control to dominate weaker nations—their politics, their economy, their leaders—because it serves the empire’s interests.
Colonialism is when that domination becomes even more direct: treating another people’s land and resources like property—to be taken, managed, and exploited—often with “security” and “transition” as the cover story.

Now read Trump again: “I would say much longer.”
Read him again: “We’re going to be taking oil.”

That is colonialism said into a microphone.

And if you’re wondering why the world is responding with outrage, it’s because the world isn’t confused about what this is. The world has seen this movie for centuries. The only difference is the names and the cameras.

Trump is describing the United States as Venezuela’s “political overlord.” That phrase appears in The New York Times report, and it is exactly right. Because an “overlord” is not a partner. An “overlord” is a ruler.

What makes this moment even more dangerous is that Trump is not talking about a short emergency window. He is talking about years. He is talking about indefinite control over selling the oil. He is talking about a “three-phase plan” that begins with dominance and ends whenever he decides it ends.

And he admits the control is backed by the permanent threat of U.S. military force—an armada offshore and “only time will tell” as the timeline.

That is a hostage situation at the national level.

Now, Trump will try to justify this with the oldest lie in the colonial book: “We’re doing it for you.”

The New York Times reports him saying: “We will rebuild it in a very profitable way.” Then he claims: “we’re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need.”

Listen to that logic: we bombed you, seized your leader, now we’ll take your oil, and we’ll give you some money back, so please call it help.

That is not generosity. That is a mugging.

If somebody holds you down, takes your wallet, and then hands you back a few dollars and says, “See? I’m helping you,” that’s not charity. That’s humiliation.

And Trump keeps repeating the core insult at the center of it all: he says Venezuela “took the oil from us years ago.”

He is referring to nationalization of facilities built by American oil companies.

But that sentence is a confession too: Trump believes Venezuela’s oil belongs to the United States.

And once you accept that logic—once you accept that other countries’ natural resources are “ours” because American companies once profited there—you have accepted the end of sovereignty.

That’s the point I need Americans to understand.

It is not controversial to say: Venezuela’s oil does not belong to the United States.
It does not belong to Donald Trump.
It does not belong to Chevron.
It does not belong to any American corporation.

It belongs to the Venezuelan people.

And if the United States is “taking oil” after a raid that killed large numbers of people, that’s not “oversight.” That’s not “transition.” That’s plunder.

It’s piracy with press credentials.

And the New York Times also includes a detail that should haunt every American taxpayer: Trump is reveling in the “success” of a mission that “appears to have killed about 70 Venezuelans and Cubans, among others,” while other reports in recent days have suggested the death toll could be higher.

Whether the number is 70 or closer to 100, it’s the same moral reality: people died so Trump could brag about a “clean” operation and announce corporate control of oil.

And Trump’s posture about those deaths tells you everything. The Times reports he compared the Venezuela operation to a “Jimmy Carter disaster” and said he worried it could end up like a failed mission that destroyed an administration. He didn’t speak like a man haunted by the human cost. He spoke like a man haunted by the political cost if the operation looked incompetent on television.

That is governance by dominance and optics, not law and morality.

Now let’s talk about the law, because this isn’t only evil—it is illegal.

International law—specifically the UN Charter—prohibits aggressive war and recognizes sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the inviolability of borders. You can’t just decide you’re going to seize another country’s leader, control its economy, and extract its resources because you “feel it’s necessary.”

You can’t do it and then pretend the rest of the world is obligated to treat it like “justice.”

But here is the hard truth you said earlier, and it keeps proving itself every hour:

International law is being treated like toilet paper.

We have been watching that collapse for more than two years in Gaza.

Gaza has taught the world something devastating: when the powerful decide law is inconvenient, they ignore it. The UN holds meetings. People write statements. The courts get bullied. And the killing continues.

Now the same lesson is being stamped into Latin America: the U.S. can seize a head of state, declare itself in charge, and begin extracting wealth—and the rest of the world can scream while the empire keeps moving.

This is why so many people feel like the rules are dying. Because the rules are dying when they aren’t enforced.

And in the same New York Times report, Trump makes it clear he is willing to keep the threat of more force hovering, refusing to say what would prompt him to put U.S. forces on the ground.

He won’t tell you where the line is because he doesn’t want a line. A line is a restraint. Trump wants discretion.

That’s what empires want: the ability to escalate whenever they choose, while everyone else is forced to guess.

And the most nauseating part is that Trump describes Venezuela’s interim government—made up of former loyalists to Maduro—as “giving us everything that we feel is necessary.” He’s describing an arrangement where leaders inside Venezuela comply under pressure because the alternative is violence.

That’s not partnership. That’s coercion.

That’s what imperialism looks like in the modern era: not always direct occupation, but control by embargo, threat, and conditional permission.

And it’s not only Trump talking like this anymore.

Stephen Miller went on CNN and described sovereignty as “international niceties,” then explained what domination looks like: “we set the terms and conditions” and “they need our permission” to do commerce. Denmark’s prime minister is now warning that a U.S. attack on Greenland could end NATO. The language of empire has spread from fringe to mainstream.

And Trump is treating it like a victory lap.

Family, I want to talk to the Christians in my audience for a moment, because so many American Christians have been trained to see empire as “order,” and power as “blessing,” and conquest as “security.”

This is not security. This is sin.

This is theft on a national scale.

This is what the Qur’an and the Bible both warn about: rulers who believe they own what belongs to the people, and who dress greed up as righteousness.

And to my Muslim family: this is a moment for moral clarity. The Prophet ﷺ taught us that oppression is darkness upon darkness. He also taught us to speak the truth, even when it’s costly.

What Trump is doing to Venezuela is oppression dressed as law.

What makes me furious isn’t only the colonial language. It’s the way so many politicians will pretend this is complex when it’s not.

There is nothing complex about a president saying, “We’re going to be taking oil.”

There is nothing complex about “oversight that could last for years.”

There is nothing complex about a country becoming a “political overlord.”

That’s a confession.

And if Americans don’t reject it, we’ll be complicit in it.

Because don’t forget: this is being done in our name and with our taxes. The bombs and the embargoes and the armadas and the “permission” to do commerce—this is our government treating the world like its private property.

We can’t claim to be a free people while cheering as our leaders create colonies.

And I’m going to say one last thing that matters:

The cheering crowds argument is propaganda.

Yes, some Venezuelans are celebrating. There are always people who celebrate the fall of leaders. There are always people who celebrate when power shifts. That does not make foreign seizure lawful.

If someone kidnapped Trump tomorrow and hauled him overseas, millions of Americans would cheer. That doesn’t mean the kidnapping becomes legal or moral.

Legality is not measured by applause. It’s measured by law, sovereignty, and human rights.

And Trump just told you he doesn’t care.

So yes, I’m angry. And I’m saying it plainly: this is theft. This is piracy. This is imperialism. This is colonial rule with better branding. And it is drenched in blood.

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And if you can, forward this to three people who still believe America can do no wrong. Let them read Trump’s own words and try to defend it.

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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