{"id":355027,"date":"2025-12-17T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355027\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:41:09","slug":"watch-we-want-it-back-trump-demands-venezuela-return-land-oil-rights-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355027\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018We want it back\u2019: Trump demands Venezuela return \u2018land, oil rights\u2019 to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan government seized assets from some American oil companies after the country nationalized oil fields in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Trump\u2019s remarks in the video player above.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Wednesday assailed his White House predecessors for not pushing back against Venezuela earlier and stated that his intention is \u201cgetting land, oil rights, whatever we had\u201d returned by the government in Caracas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-live-white-house-holds-briefing-after-trump-administration-seizes-oil-tanker-off-venezuela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: White House says Trump administration plans to \u2018seize\u2019 oil from tanker taken off Venezuela coast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Trump said: \u201cThey took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn\u2019t watching. But they\u2019re not going to do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want it back,\u201d he added. \u201cThey took our oil rights \u2014 we had a lot of oil there. As you know they threw our companies out, and we want it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n                    A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"invite_body\">\n                    Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/give.newshour.org\/page\/88646\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=pbs_news_sept_2025_article&amp;supporter.appealCode=N2509AW1000100\" class=\"donation-link ga-click-funding ga-click-ender-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    Donate now<\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan government seized assets from some American oil companies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-355027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}