Trump reveals to The Post secret 'discombobulator' weapon was crucial to Venezuelan raid on Maduro

[riversedge]

Source: The Post





By Steven Nelson, Emily Goodin and Marisa Schultz

Published Jan. 24, 2026, 8:08 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON —.............

Trump boasted that the mysterious weapon “made [enemy] equipment not work” when US helicopters swooped into Caracas on Jan. 3 to arrest Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on federal drug and weapons charges — without losing a single American life.

“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said during an exclusive interview in the Oval Office.

“I would love to,” the president added, before confirming its use in the stealth operation.

“They never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.”......................

Read more: https://nypost.com/2026/01/24/us-news/trump-reveals-to-the-post-secret-discombobulator-weapon-was-crucial-to-venezuelan-raid-on-maduro/

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Well, Trump gave the Post the interview so I will have to post it.
It is news --about this new weapon isn't it??--
or maybe he has talked about it previously to other media????

Trump reveals to The Post secret ‘discombobulator’ weapon was crucial to Venezuelan raid on Maduro

Published Jan. 24, 2026, 8:08 a.m. ET
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— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-01-24T15:51:41.534Z

President Trump told The Post that a secret new weapon that he calls “the Discombobulator” disabled Venezuelan defenses during the Jan. 3 US raid on Caracas. Tamara Beckwith / NY Post

[Raven123]

1. Wow. Wonder if they tested the discombobulater on Trump. Might explain some things

[GreenWave]

2. More likely Venezuelan spies and turncoats.

[SergeStorms]

3. Probably an EMP of some sort.

Electromagnetic pulse. It would raise holy hell with anything electronic.

[drmeow]

9. That was my thought! nt

[frogstar0]

4. If true.....

Yet another national security breach by TACO. Yet another reason he is unfit for office.

[riversedge]

7. IMO, Trump said a lot about a secret weapon he was not suspose to talk about!!!

[Ocelot II]

5. So I guess the secret weapon isn't secret any more,

and I have to wonder whether it's being used on Trump.

[mpcamb]

6. " I'm not allowed to talk about it". You just DID , Fat Lips!!

Is there any wonder about trump's ability to keep secrets??
Other than about his relationship with the World's Best-Known Pedophile.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. I wonder where we got the Discombobulator?

[Javaman]

10. More confabulation

By dementia in chief

[Shipwack]

11. On a more serious note...

This would explain a lot. I was surprised by how smoothly things went.

I have no doubt that our Special Forces units are good. However, there is a difference between doing an operation in some remote village in an underdeveloped nation, and snagging a world leader from his palace in the interior of the country.

Why weren’t the helicopters detected? Why weren’t anti-aircraft measures deployed? Venezuela isn’t some poor failed nation-state… They might not have a huge state of the art military, but defensive systems are cheaper than tanks and helicopters.

[RussBLib]

12. I agree

I hate to give Trump credit for anything, but that was a smooth operation. Credit likely goes to our military using SCIENCE to create a sonic weapon that disorients its human targets. I wonder if there was any cooperation with our mission on the part of the VZ military? Lots of VZ’s were pretty tired of Maduro.

[SWBTATTReg]

13. A secret 'discombobulator' weapon?

More than likely, they either had tRUMP call them or replay one of tRUMP's stupid speeches on an endless loop, prior to kidnapping the guy...

[FakeNoose]

14. They only gave Chump the fewest details possible, because they knew he would blab it all

I'm sure he was on the phone to Putin the minute he got out of the "top secret" security meeting.

"Discombobulator" ...

[vanessa_ca]

15. Havana Syndrome

Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome

CNN Expansion DC - November 2021, Shoot ID: 1089822 , 11/15/2021, Natasha Bertrand
Natasha Bertrand
Updated Jan 12, 2026

The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting US spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.

A division of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, purchased the device for millions of dollars in the waning days of the Biden administration, using funding provided by the Defense Department, according to two of the sources. Officials paid “eight figures” for the device, these people said, declining to offer a more specific number.

The device is still being studied and there is ongoing debate — and in some quarters of government, skepticism — over its link to the roughly dozens of anomalous health incidents that remain officially unexplained.

-snip-

The device acquired by HSI produces pulsed radio waves, one of the sources said, which some officials and academics have speculated for years could be the cause of the incidents. Although the device is not entirely Russian in origin, it contains Russian components, this person added.

-snip-

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politics/havana-syndrome-device-pentagon-hsi

[Blumancru]

16. Well since he likes to name things for himself....

How about…
The Sphinctrinator
The Stupifier
The Pendejo Device
Anyone got some others?