President Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s new leader with a grim fate far worse than ousted dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Trump, who said just hours after arresting Maduro and his wife in Caracas that he preferred hardline socialist Vice President Delcy Rodriguez as Maduro’s successor rather than the country’s opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, appeared to change his tune on Sunday morning.
Now, the commander-in-chief says if Rodriguez ‘doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,’ Trump told The Atlantic.
As for the country’s future, Trump said: ‘You know, rebuilding there and regime change, anything you want to call it, is better than what you have right now. Can’t get any worse.’
Maduro is currently languishing in a New York federal jail after being taken in by US authorities on drug trafficking charges on Saturday.
The Republican leader also addressed rumors that he plans to take over Greenland next.
‘We do need Greenland, absolutely,’ Trump told the outlet, adding that the Danish territory is ‘surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.’
His comments on Greenland come just after Katie Miller, the wife of Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Steven Miller, shared a controversial post seemingly calling for the US to take the Arctic island over.
