Donald Trump

Late last night and early today, at my direction,

The United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela.

This was one of the most stunning, effective, and powerful displays of American military might and competence ever.

In American history, it was dark and it was deadly.

The first attack was so successful, we probably don't have to do a second, but we're prepared.

We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.

And it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about.

We can't take a chance if somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind.

We're not going to let that happen.

The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot, by a real lot.

They now call it the Donro document.

We sort of forgot about it.

We don't forget about it anymore.

Under our new national security strategy, American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again.

We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure.

and start making money for the country.

President Trump said he watched the capture of the Venezuelan leader in real time from a room in Mar-a-Lago.

In an interview on Fox News, Trump said there were few injuries but no deaths, at least on the U.S.

side.

Trump said the U.S.