President Donald Trump made this statement in a 60 Minutes interview aired on November 2, 2025, amid heightened U.S. tensions with Venezuela over narcotics trafficking and regime stability.
President Trump explicitly agreed that Maduro's days as president "are numbered," while emphasizing that he does not anticipate a full-scale U.S. war, framing the pressure as targeted actions like recent naval strikes on Venezuelan vessels suspected of drug smuggling.
This comes during a period of escalating U.S. actions against Maduro's government, including:
October 2025 naval operations
Covert CIA involvement
Diplomatic signals
Maduro has dismissed these as U.S. "fabrications" aimed at invasion, drawing parallels to past interventions in Latin America.
Do you anticipate a US intervention before the year ends?
