Venezuela, Trump assaults Exxon and proclaims himself “interim president” | EUROtoday

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“I am inclined to leave Exxon out” of Venezuela’s oil wells, declared Donald Trump after the corporate’s CEO, Darren Woods, had expressed doubts in regards to the precise chance of coming into the nation throughout the assembly with the leaders of firms within the sector on the White House on Friday.

Without important adjustments to the financial, authorized and sectoral framework, Venezuela is presently “uninvestable”, Woods mentioned, underlining the hope that the Trump Administration may introduce the mandatory reforms along with the Venezuelan authorities. «I did not like their response. They’re being too good,” Trump commented last night. Exxon’s assets had been nationalized in Venezuela, for the second time, in 2007. The company had sued Caracas for 12 billion dollars but had managed to recover only a small part of the amount requested. Within two weeks, Exxon, already involved in a large project in Guyana, will send a technical ‘team’ to Caracas to assess the current state of oil assets.

Trump proclaims himself “interim president of Venezuela”

Meanwhile, the President of the United States Donald Trump, on his social platform Truth Social, has proclaimed himself interim leader of Venezuela starting from January 2026. In fact, Trump published a photo of himself on Sunday in which, among his roles, there is also that of “appearing president

features of Venezuela”, a number of days after the US army operation that led to the seize of the nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro.