The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.
On ABC, Jimmy Kimmel quipped that “President Trump said his New Year’s resolution this year is peace on earth, and that lasted for just under two days. If you are wondering how bad these Epstein files are for Trump; turns out they're ‘invade Venezuela bad.’ This is literally the plot of the movie Wag the Dog. The president gets caught in a sex scandal, so he attacks a smaller country to distract us, and here we are, distracted.”
A bit later, the noted foreign policy non-expert unleashed another dud, “And of course China is very excited about all this. They've been looking at Taiwan like it's a tasty little piece of dim sum, and now anything goes. You can just take what you want. It all seems very—it's almost comic book crazy.”
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
