Trump declares himself Venezuela’s ‘acting president’ in online post after Maduro ouster
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President Donald Trump posted a doctored Wikipedia image calling himself 'Acting President of Venezuela' after U.S. forces seized dictator Nicolás Maduro in January strikes.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
Trump said Jan. 3 that the U.S. would run Venezuela until a safe transition could occur, and he told The New York Times in an interview published Wednesday that he anticipated that the U.S. would oversee Venezuela "much longer" than six months or a year. Even so, he did not share a more detailed estimated timeline.
The social media post also comes as the Trump administration has sought to reassert U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere, and has claimed it’s revived the Monroe Doctrine, rebranded as the "Don-roe Doctrine," which originally sought to limit European influence in Latin America and to protect U.S. influence in the region.
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