💭🤡 ❗️  🇲🇽   The cartels are running Mexico. Something’s going to have to be done with Mexico, — Trump💭🎤 Reporter: Could the U.S. end up administering Venezuela for years?💭 Trump: It wouldn’t cost us anything — the money coming out of the ground is substantial 🛑 We lost no aircraft; everything came back. One helicopter was hit pretty hard, but we got it back;🛑 We will govern the country until a safe, proper, and reasonable transition takes place (Trump did not specify a timeline);🛑 We have the greatest oil companies in the world — the biggest, the greatest — and we’re going to be very much involved in the future of Venezuela’s oil industry📰 🇨🇳   I have a very good relationship with Xi, and there’s not going to be a problem. They’re going to get oil. We’re going to allow people to have oil💭 Reporter: What was Maduro doing?💭 Trump: He was in a fortress.📰 His house had steel doors and a reinforced safe room, but he was rushed before he could reach it. We brought blowtorches for the steel — never needed them🛑 Maduro wanted to negotiate at the end, and I didn’t want to negotiate. I said, "No, we got to do it." He tried hard to make a deal; I said no.;🛑 The US will remain in Venezuela as long as needed for an orderly transition of power.