President Donald Trump said U.S. oil companies will invest billions to upgrade the country's aging oil infrastructure.

On November 2, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair that land strikes in Venezuela would require the approval of Congress. She said that if Trump “were to authorize some activity on land,

The president, who claimed to oppose involvement in “nation building,” also said the U.S. would “run” Venezuela for an indefinite period.

It’s got nothing to do with drugs, said a defiant Nicolás Maduro, hours before his alleged capture by the United States.

JD Vance was absent from Trump's briefing on Maduro capture due to security concerns. Venezuelan leader taken into U.S. custody in major operation.

The New York City mayor called Saturday's U.S. military operation in Caracas an "act of war" that violates both "federal and international law."

The president, who has been lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, warned a foreign adversary that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go.”

Democrats raised constitutional concerns and said the Trump administration had misrepresented its goals in Venezuela, while most Republicans cheered the action.

The photo, posted to Trump's social media network Truth Social, shows Maduro in a gray sweatsuit, holding a water bottle and wearing what appeared to be sound-suppressing earmuffs and a dark covering over his eyes.