{"id":427839,"date":"2026-01-24T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427839\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:22:09","slug":"trump-says-us-used-discombobulator-weapon-in-maduro-raid-not-allowed-to-talk-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427839\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US used \u2018discombobulator\u2019 weapon in Maduro raid: \u2018not allowed to talk about it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Donald Trump said US military forces used a weapon that he referred to as \u201cthe discombobulator\u201d during the US operation in Caracas to remove Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from power earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe discombobulator. I\u2019m not allowed to talk about it,\u201d Trump said in an interview with the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He said the weapon made enemy equipment \u201cnot work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThey never got their rockets off,\u201d Trump said, according to New York Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThey had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The White House did not immediately respond to a request for additional information about the weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said US military forces used a weapon that he referred to as \u201cthe discombobulator\u201d during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,83190,203335,162030,12,86484,48638,33824,3,18231,203334,23860,203336,644,21,19,22,20,25,203337,24,130867],"class_list":["post-427839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-caracas","tag-celia","tag-chinese-rockets","tag-donald-trump","tag-january","tag-maduro","tag-new-york-post","tag-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-operation-absolute-resolve","tag-russian","tag-the-discombobulator","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-military-forces","tag-usa","tag-venezuelan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427839","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=427839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}