Donald Trump has suggested US taxpayers could reimburse energy companies for repairing Venezuelan infrastructure for extracting and shipping oil.
Trump acknowledged that
“a lot of money” would need to be spent to increase oil production in Venezuela after US forces ousted its leader, Nicolšs Maduro,
but suggested his government could pay oil companies to do the work.
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it,
and the…
Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/trump-us-taxpayers-oil-firms-venezuela-investment
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p44#a260106p44
He's just whining because they won't change the name to Trumpflix. 😏
And it will be too much competition for state-run media outlet Paramount / Skydance
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/08/trump-netflix-warner-b…
" #Conservatives" are fine with some forms of #WealthTransfer. YAY for #FlowUp economics, the billionaires version of
Trump's team races to come up with a Greenland takeover plan -- here's what's at stake (Sam Meredith/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/greenland-trump-takeover-bid-denmark-what-happens-next.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p13#a260108p13
There is no clear provision in the #Nato treaty for #expelling a country,
though its preamble does commit the US and other allies
“to live in peace with all peoples and all governments” and
“to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples”
– wording once intended to be u…
Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment;
President says a ‘tremendous amount of money’ will need to be spent repairing country’s infrastructure
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/trump…
Inside Trump's transformation of the Kennedy Center (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/06/politics/trump-kennedy-center-takeover
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p65#a251206p65
Thune dismisses prospect of military seizure of Greenland (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5675323-thune-dismisses-greenland-military-takeover/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p133#a260106p133