Trump styles himself as 'Venezuela's acting president' in Truth Social post with Fake Wikipedia Page

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Trump has repeatedly asserted that the United States will "run" Venezuela, despite its interim President Delcy Rodríguez insisting that no foreign power was governing her country.

US President Donald Trump has referred to himself as "acting president of Venezuela" in an image of a mock-up of a Wikipedia page on his Truth Social account on Monday morning.

The post, which has been liked more than 24,000 times, is the latest in a string of claims that Trump and Washington are in charge of the South American country following the 3 January capture of Nicolás Maduro.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/12/trump-calls-himself-venezuelas-acting-president-in-truth-social-post

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1. so he is now a raging socialist?

I mean, he thinks he replaced Maduro, but not the rest of the government of Venezuela... and they are still very much a socialist / communist dictatorship... so, as head of the new government, he is responsible, right?

[Tadpole Raisin]

2. Everything he does is fake

Fake Times magazine cover
Fake peace prize(s)
Fake diplomas
Fake manhood
Fake Presidency

If there is reincarnation I hope he comes back as a person who he would believe was the lowest form of human - that covers a lot - but remembers who he was in his previous life.

That or a door mat.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. MaddowBlog-With 'acting president of Venezuela' boast, Trump isn't helping his own cause

“This was a law enforcement operation” was a nice talking point for the White House, but it had a shelf life of one day.

With ‘acting president of Venezuela’ boast, Trump isn’t helping his own cause - MS NOW

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— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2026-01-12T19:46:39.938Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/with-acting-president-of-venezuela-boast-trump-isnt-helping-his-own-cause

Immediately after Americans learned that Donald Trump had deployed U.S. forces to bomb Venezuela and capture Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of State Marco Rubio relied heavily on a specific phrase in response to a variety of questions, calling the incursion “a law enforcement operation.” He added, as part of a description of the administration’s foreign policy, “We didn’t occupy a country.”

Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, used an identical line, telling representatives of the Security Council, “This was a law enforcement operation.”

That is, because Maduro was facing federal criminal charges in the United States, the administration was within its rights simply to enforce the indictment, take the Venezuelan leader into custody and bring him to court like any other criminal defendant.

The military, according to the argument, was simply there to protect the officers conducting the arrest.....

All of this helped set the stage for Sunday, when Trump used his social media platform to promote an image that described him as the “acting president of Venezuela,” which came on the heels of the Republican saying that his administration is “in charge” of the South American country.

Trump posts that he’s “Acting President of Venezuela”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-12T01:25:18.958Z

“This was a law enforcement operation” was a nice little talking point for the White House, but as it turns out, it had a shelf life of a single day.

If this was NOT a law enforcement operation, then trump needed to notify congress