To Venezuela's opposition leaders...

Take that with a ton of salt because Trump also recognizes McDonald's as safe and good-for-his-diet food.

Hey Bone Spur, your dodges aren't going to work.

...the shutdown isn't going away

...try to focus past combing your hair

...get off the golf course

...and do your job.

No mention that Maduro is failing with the same thing the Democrats are trying to push on us here. Socialism doesn't work!!

He did this because the Koch brothers do not like Maduro.

Can someone just Photoshop a MAGA hat on Maduro? About half of the democractic party will start calling for Maduro's assassination if they see that.

Wait a moment.

So you can just choose who to recognize as President despite the outcome of an election. You can just claim that the opposition candidate is truly the president?

You can do that?

Asking for a friend

The UN reports that as many as 3 million people have fled from Venezuela. The danger is that the regime actually gets stronger when so many of its opponents have left the country.

Interesting how Trump says we should mind our own business and let each country run its affairs, but let's totally take down the Venezuelan govt, BTW, think OIL and $$$, Absolutely true that the Venezulean "socialist" experiment has been a total disaster and needs to move on, but I fear the forces that drove her to going that way will quickly return courtesy of the US, Venezuela didn't do the right thing when US oil companies were there and all that oil wealth went mostly to the rich. Maybe Pence can do the Christian thing and help make that better this time (oops, not with Trump as president, sorry),

I agree with this move, it gives more influence towards the opposition who at this point are the only ones who can turn things around for Venezuela. This is a country that is sitting on a vast amount of oil reserves yet don’t have the resources to feed their own people.

It's about time we handle that nuisance.

Why is it up to Trump to decide who should govern a South American nation?

Actually agree with Trump on this one. Could be a first.

Maybe trump should worry about the poor AMERICAN HOSTAGES trump is holding!
Instead of sticking his nose in other countries business. Considering trump is failing so miserably!
SHUTDOWN TRUMPS SHUTDOWN!

Do you remember when the word of our president used to mean something to the world? Now we just get eye rolls, laughter and I'm ignoring you now type responses.

Let Venezuela straighten out Venezuela. Trump's "illegitimate" remarks are laughable and hypocritical. He loves dictators and murderers- ask his buddies in Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Russia, etc.

Ahh, Drumpf. Making America deplorable - for the very first time.

This is the distraction the donald is looking for. While he turns America into an S-Hole country.

Wrong move! Making more enemies isn't the way to get along in a shrinking world. Bad Trump! Bad Trump!

Trump should visit Venezuela right now.

What, no cute tweet from Cortez?
I thought she was the self proclaimed poster child for Nicolas Maduro?

If being President of Venezuela doesn’t work out for Mr. Maduro, he has a very promising future in the Democratic party in the US.

Funny how every Republican president finds a way to war with an oil country

Has Putin sent bombers back to Venezuela? That will be Trumps patriot or Russian operative test.

Trump's so-called election and popularity are as farcial as Maduro's. It is NOT a function of the Presidency to decide for a foreign nation, however, who IS President. This fraud still thinks he's a monarch.

Trump will move SOCOM headquarters to Palm Beach so that he can oversee the "Operation Just Because" invasion from Bunker-a-Lago.
Mr. Trump Goes To War.

Drumpf can't come anywhere near running THIS country, what makes him think he has the right to criticize other leaders (no matter how bad they may be).

I officially recognize Dr Jill Stein as the President of the United States of America.

I guess the State of the Union is great. Can we bomb Maduro or just have Donnie fall "in love" with him.

All options are on the table....Unfortunately the table is in a conference room and we don't have the key until the janitorial staff returns to work.

" Nicolas Maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power." There are also dictators with legitimate claims to power.

Maduro has used the old "National Emergency" bit before to bypass the legislature... just like Trump has been threatening lately.

U.S. President Donald Trump declared Nicolas Maduro's presidency "illegitimate"
Sounds like another case of the 'pot and kettle'

Funny, I thought Maduro would be Trump's kind of guy. After all, he sure seems to like other tyrant dictators.

Perfect, without a shot fired, just blow gently and he'll fall over. Maduro can always force his way over the border and apply for amnesty here though, then run for Congress. He has experience and the Democrats are trying to sell the same socialist paradise with resentment, despite the fact that "Americans want to walk their dogs, not eat them."

Distract away, Drumf. We're still lookin' at you, punk.

Trump should be careful...The day may come when the people here have had enough and start "Speaking Out"against him.

Dont believe Trump is the least interested in the plight of Venezuelan people. He is under pressure from American oil companies which contributed heavily to the GOP and whose oil facilities have been nationalized and/or plundered by the Venezuela dictators.

Guess who the richest women is in Venezuela?
Hugo Chavez's daughter. Mmmm, how could this happen under Socialism.

December 1989, GHW Bush launched Operation Just Cause to pull down Noriega in Panama.
Trump will launch "Operation Just Because" to get Maduro.
Finally, he'll have his own war.

All of it is according to oil!

Does Trump recognize the Fleet of Russian Bombers docked in Venezuela ? They broke the Monroe Doctrine of governments coming to this Hemisphere to set up War Bases . Trump has his head up his Butt about a Wall < Bombers will fly over them ,he is a Russian Traitor SELLING OUT AMERICA .Trump is playing games with the WALL, AMERICA IS SHUT DOWN AND RUSSIA IS SETTING UP IN SOUTH AMERICA ,THEY CAN STRIKE AT ANY TIME WHILE AMERICA IS SHUT DOWN BY TRUMP WHO IS A CO CONSPIRATOR WITH RUSSIA ,A RUSSIAN SPY IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

I wonder if Trump recognizes where he is at when he wakes up every day?

Trump is going to invade Venezuela after asked by the opposition.

Nice distraction, if you can get it.