President Donald Trump on Friday praised Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado whereas explaining extra of his reasoning for not backing her to steer Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
“Well, if you ever remember a place called Iraq where everybody was fired, every single person, the police, the generals, everybody was fired, and they ended up being ISIS,” Trump instructed reporters whereas leaving the White House for Florida. “So, I remember that.”
Trump beforehand stated that Machado lacked the respect of her individuals to steer the nation.
Trump spoke positively about his assembly with Machado on Thursday, the place she introduced him along with her Nobel Peace Prize medal. “But I’ll tell you, I had a great meeting yesterday by a person who I have a lot of respect for, and she has respect, obviously, for me and our country, and she gave me her Nobel prize,” Trump stated.
Asked why he would need another person’s prize, Trump stated, “Well, she offered it to me. I thought it was very nice. She said, you know, ‘You’ve ended eight wars, and nobody deserves this prize more than, in history, than you do.’ And I thought it was a very nice gesture and, by the way, I think she’s a very fine woman, and we’ll be talking again,” he stated.