Burgum Tells Cabinet Trump Will Get Venezuela Statue
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- Doug Burgum told Trump at a White House cabinet meeting that he believes Venezuela will erect a statue honoring him, comparing Trump to independence hero Simón Bolívar as 'the liberator of a country' and noting Venezuelans wear NBA jerseys
- Trump claimed the January US raid that captured Nicolás Maduro was 'win-win' for both countries and suggested he might run for president in Venezuela against interim leader Delcy Rodríguez, saying 'they love me in Venezuela'
- Trump launched personal attacks on California Governor Gavin Newsom — a potential 2028 presidential candidate — mocking his public acknowledgment of dyslexia, calling him 'Gavin Newscum' and saying he doesn't want 'a person with mental disability' as president
- Trump boasted about taking a cognitive test three times and 'acing' it, claiming a doctor told him 'I've never seen anybody get 'em all right; I've been doing the test for 20 years'
- Trump claimed Iran has been 'beat to shit' in what the article describes as the first cabinet meeting since the war in Iran broke out, and accused British PM Keir Starmer of a 'shocking' lack of support
- Burgum, who recently visited Venezuela with oil and mining executives, said media were allowed to visit Miraflores Palace — Venezuela's equivalent of the White House — for the first time in 20 years and cited encouraging signs for US businesses and oil production
Why it matters: The first cabinet meeting since the war in Iran began featured a US cabinet secretary pitching a foreign statue for Trump in Venezuela — a country the US attacked in January — while Trump openly mused about running for office there and mocked a political rival's dyslexia on camera, drawing comparisons to North Korean-style flattery.
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