President Donald Trump claimed during his Veterans Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday that the United States “won the war in 48 minutes” in Venezuela, calling it one of the most stunning displays of military power the world has ever seen.
“We built it during my first administration. We used it a little bit,” Trump said of the U.S. military. “Now, in Venezuela, we won the war in 48 minutes, and in one of the most stunning displays of military dominance and power the world has ever seen. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.”
The claim came in the same passage of the remarks in which Trump said the United States is taking billions of dollars of oil out of Venezuela and has already paid for the cost of the war many times over. “To the victor belong the spoils, they used to say,” he said. “But you can say it again with us under this leadership.”
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