If ever in need of laughs, just call to mind Joe Biden. To quote him from June 2020:

“Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro.

“As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy.”

Ironically, Biden’s VP and planned successor may be the only person on earth other than Sean Penn and Danny Glover who regarded Maduro as having won his last election.

PJ Media notes that even before Trump dragged Maduro by the scruff of his neck to the USA to stand trial for drug smuggling, his administration had taken these steps among others:

• Put a $50 million bounty on this man’s head.
• Blown up all of his little drug boats.
• Issued sanctions upon sanctions upon sanctions on him and his family and his business interests.
• Declared his government a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
• Surrounded him with the largest military build-up the Caribbean Sea has ever seen.
• Seized his oil tankers with plans for more to come.
• Verbally threatened him on more than one occasion.
• Imposed secondary tariffs on countries importing Venezuelan oil or providing it with weapons.

Biden did have a $25-million bounty on Maduro. He can make the check out to Donald J. Trump.

Now that Trump has removed the tyrant from power, Democrats predictably take Maduro’s side:

This you? https://t.co/yMIJZF8LyN pic.twitter.com/VN8LmOxIaz

— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) January 3, 2026

On a tip from abcanc.