Washington– President Donald Trump said that the United States had used a secret weapon He called it “the disintegrator.” To disable Venezuelan equipment when the United States arrested Nicolas Maduro. Trump too He renewed his threat to launch military strikes on the ground against drug cartels, including in Mexico.
Trump made the comments in an interview Friday with the New York Post.
The Republican president was commenting on reports that the United States possesses a pulsed energy weapon, saying: “The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it.”
He added that the weapon made Venezuelan equipment “non-functional.”
“They never fired their missiles,” Trump said in the interview. “They had Russian and Chinese missiles, and they never fired one of them.” “We came in and they pushed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set up for us.”
Trump had previously said when describing the raid on Maduro’s compound that the United States turned off “almost all the lights in Caracas,” but did not detail how this was achieved.
The president also indicated that the United States will continue its campaign of military strikes and could expand it from South America to North America as the administration tries to target drug cartels.
“We know their ways. We know everything about them. We know their homes. We know everything about them,” Trump said. “We will strike the cartels.”
When asked if the strikes could happen in Central America or Mexico, Trump said: “It could be anywhere.”
On Friday, the United States carried out a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first such action since Maduro’s arrest.
This represents at least 36 known boat raids in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since early September that resulted in at least 117 deaths.
Trump She said the United States removed the oil on board Seven oil tankers connected to Venezuela were seized but did not reveal where the ships are now.
“I’m not allowed to tell you,” Trump said. “But let’s put it this way, they don’t have any oil. We take the oil.”
During the interview, the president also said he was still trying to figure out where to hang the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, which she awarded to him earlier this month. The award was leaning on a statue in the Oval Office.
Trump As he told the newspaper The framework of the Arctic security agreement he concluded with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte would give the United States ownership of the land where the American bases are located.
“We will get everything we want,” Trump said. “We have some interesting conversations.”
Much of the potential deal remains unclear. The leaders of Denmark and Greenland said the island’s sovereignty was non-negotiable, and a NATO spokesman said that Rutte, in his talks with Trump, had not proposed any “sovereignty compromise.”
President He said he wouldn’t go to the Super Bowl He called it a “terrible choice” for Bad Bunny and Green Day’s performances in the game. He attended last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans.