US President Donald Trump has shared a photo today (January 12), in which he is shown as the ‘Acting President of Venezuela’. This photo appears to be of an edited page of Wikipedia, in which Trump has been shown as ‘President of Venezuela’ till January 2026. It also mentions their actual official positions, the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

All this comes after Trump’s comments in which he said that the United States is working very well with the leadership of Venezuela. He also mentioned oil shipments and ongoing diplomatic talks as a sign of improving relations.

What did Trump say about the new leadership in Caracas?
When reporters aboard Air Force One asked Trump about his relationship with the new leadership in Caracas, he said everything was going very well in Venezuela. We are working very well with the leadership and will see how everything goes in the future. This question was asked after the US attack, which removed Nicolas Maduro from the post of leader of Venezuela.

Trump told that Venezuela had asked America to take a large consignment of oil. He said, ‘They asked us, can we take 50 million barrels of oil? And I said, yes, we can take it. Trump said that oil companies have shown a lot of interest in Venezuela. On the trust given to energy companies, Trump said that there is a guarantee that they will be safe, there will be no problems.

‘No more oil or money will go to Cuba from Venezuela’
He blamed the former American government for the past difficulties. He said that they had problems earlier because they did not have President Trump. Earlier in a social media post, Trump said that no more oil or money would go to Cuba from Venezuela and that the United States military would be involved in maintaining distance between the two countries.

Trump said Venezuelans no longer need protection from the gangsters and extortionists who have held them hostage for so many years. Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the world, and we will protect them.

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Venezuela is currently going through great political turmoil. The US Army has returned after carrying out military action in Venezuela, taking President Nicolas Maduro into custody. In such a situation, the command of the interim power of Venezuela has now been handed over to Delsey Rodriguez, a leader close to President Maduro, who is well known for her leftist ideology.

Delsey Rodriguez is the daughter of Jorge Antonio Rodriguez, a Marxist guerrilla who was infamous for kidnapping William Niehaus, an American businessman. Apart from this, Delsey’s elder brother Jorge Rodriguez is also considered very close to Maduro. Delsey Rodriguez partially completed her studies in France, where she specialized in labor law. After this, he rapidly reached high positions in the government of Nicolas Maduro, who is now taking charge of Venezuela as interim leader.

Rodriguez improved Venezuela’s economic condition

Rodriguez, 56, is also known as a leader who has built bridges with Venezuela’s economic elites, foreign investors and diplomats, presenting herself as a cosmopolitan technocrat with a global outlook in a military-dominated and male-dominated government.

Between 2013 and 2021, Venezuela’s economy has gone through a severe crisis. After this period, Rodriguez led market-friendly reforms, which gave the country some sense of economic stability before the US military targeted Maduro.

Additionally, due to the privatization of the country’s assets and relatively conservative fiscal policies, the Venezuelan economy was somewhat better positioned to withstand the Trump administration’s sanctions and blockade of oil tankers.

Rodriguez rejected Trump’s claim

Delsey Rodriguez addressed the nation through the government TV channel on Saturday (January 3, 2026). Regarding which President Trump claimed that Rodriguez has taken oath as the new President of Venezuela, but in his address, Rodriguez repeatedly said clearly that Nicolas Maduro is the only legitimate President of Venezuela. At the same time, even on the government TV channel, Rodriguez was shown as the Vice President of the country. As soon as his address ended, the government channel clarified that Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has made it clear that the President of Venezuela is still Maduro.

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