One dance too many': Insiders say Maduro's 'public dancing' was final straw for Trump

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17. Insiders Spill on Trump's Weird Reason for Ordering Strike on Maduro

trump's feelings were hurt by Maduro being a better dancer

Insiders Spill on Trump’s Weird Reason for Ordering Strike on Maduro 🕺

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President Donald Trump ordered the capture of Nicolás Maduro after a trivial grievance pushed him over the edge, according to insiders.

Sources told the New York Times in a piece published Sunday that it was the Venezuelan leader’s dancing that was Trump’s breaking point.

Trump had been irritated about Maduro’s nonchalance in the face of escalating tensions between the two countries.

But the final straw came when Maduro stood up to dance to an electronic remix of his own speech, “No War, Yes Peace,” while at the opening of the International School for Women’s Leadership in Maracay, northern Venezuela, in late December.

Trump viewed Maduro’s dancing as “mocking” the U.S., which had days earlier carried out a strike on a dock in Venezuela that the president said was for drug trafficking, two sources told the Times.

Maduro may have been mocking trump but trump is NOT the US