The President may have been in office less than a year, but he has already sent shockwaves internationally, making a lengthy list of threats and setting his sights on other countries.
Donald Trump sparks outrage after invading country and ‘kidnapping’ presidentEarlier this month, a military strike was launched on Venezuela, and President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured.
Later, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, and shared a photo of Maduro captioned: “Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima.”The President said the US would ‘run the country’ until a leadership transition could take place, while its oil companies would go into Venezuela.
Maduro declared he had been ‘kidnapped’ and remained president of Venezuela, as per Reuters.
“I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still president of my country,” Maduro said through an interpreter.
The move sparked outrage worldwide, with commentators stating that Trump’s invasion ‘sets a perilous precedent.’
“Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela… is blatantly illegal and sets a disturbing precedent… that tyrants worldwide will be eager to exploit,” American attorney and human rights activist Kenneth Roth wrote in The Guardian.
US urged to invade UK
Following the removal of Venezuela’s president, far-right agitator Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, went viral after making a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter).
In one post, he called on Trump to ‘free’ the UK, as well as calling Prime Minister Keir Starmer a ‘tyrannical dictator.’
He said: “We would now love America & president trump to free us from our tyrannical dictator @Keir_Starmer.”
Warning issued to America’s allies in wake of attack
When speaking to reporters on January 4 aboard Air Force One, the President threatened to attack five countries – and this included allies, per The LA Times.
US officials state they want to show the wider world what they are capable of, while forcing both Trump’s allies and foes to adhere to his demands.
Amid Trump’s insistence that the US ‘need Greenland,’ its Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has urged Washington to stop threatening a NATO ally.
Founded in the aftermath of World War II, the organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between 32 member states, with 30 in Europe and two in North America.
Nielsen told TV2 network (via Euronews.com): “If the United States decides to military attack another NATO country, then everything would stop – that includes NATO and therefore post-World War II security.”
Trump has been highly critical of NATO – in his first term, and at his first NATO summit, he criticized European allies for not spending enough, while also owing the US ‘massive amounts of money.’
WW3 fears as invasion sets ‘dangerous precedent’
The US’s actions have prompted concern and outrage – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated the raid ‘set an extremely dangerous precedent,’ and Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro called it ‘aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela and of Latin America,’ per
