Sometimes you have to sip coffee slowly, while taking in the landscape.
About a month ago President Donald J Trump bombed Caracas, engaged the U.S. military with a direct firefight against Venezuela military & security forces, then snatched regime dictator Nicholas Maduro out of the country to face criminal charges in the United States.
Yesterday, Maduro’s replacement, President Delcy Rodriquez, stood on the steps to the Venezuela presidential office and publicly thanked Interior Secretary Doug Bergum for the kindness and support of President Donald Trump.
That reality represents a level of hemispheric ‘ultimate boss’ that boggles the mind. But wait, it gets better. There’s video (prompted):
Before going further to current events, let us remind ourselves of a few details.
Sandwiched between the Venezuela Maduro operation and the recent Operation Epic Fury in Iran, approximately three weeks ago, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth convened a gathering in Washington of all the defense chiefs and senior military officials from 34 Western Hemisphere countries.
As most of you will remember, securing the national security of the entire Western Hemisphere, was outlined in the national defense strategy document [SEE HERE] released by President Trump. In addition to setting the priorities for the United States focus, the report details the Trump administration perspective on the world as broken down into specific regions. The report is a brutally honest review of the current state of geopolitical benefits, risks and threats as they pertain to vital U.S. interests. The report outlines a critically renewed focus on the Western Hemisphere.
Now, back to Secretary Bergum’s visit.
At the same time as Interior Secretary Bergum is meeting with key government and private sector partners to discuss strategic mineral development (ie. deconflict dependency on China via independent development), oil production for U.S. hemispheric security (Iran output offsets), Venezuela announced the transfer of 1,000 kilos (more than a ton) of gold reserves for sale on the U.S. market {SOURCE}.
Venezuela needs stability. Hemispheric Boss President Trump wants Venezuela to have stability. Venezuela needs dollars and both the coordinated sale of Venezuela oil and Venezuela gold (47 tonnes in strategic reserve) will provide those dollars to retain stability and seed economic growth projects.
This coordinated approach secures the economic future of Venezuela and simultaneously secures the energy security of the Western Hemisphere while geopolitical operations continue in other regions, like the confrontation with Iran.
In essence, President Trump is isolating the Western Hemisphere from collateral economic damage that is likely to happen as the U.S. begins to take down the leading sponsors of global conflict. As things are in flux, the close and controlled partnership with Venezuela can offset/mitigate a lot of chaos.
While the ongoing Iran confrontation happens in the middle east, and in combination with the priority of the National Security Strategy, President Trump then convenes a meeting of hemispheric leaders in Florida this weekend.
The Latin-America meeting in Doral is being called the “Shield of the Americas Summit.” The Trump administration has made it a priority to assert dominance over the Western Hemisphere, where China previously built influence through massive loans and expansive trade.
Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced President Trump will host heads of state from “Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and maybe some others as well.”
So, let’s put it all together.
President Trump proactively secured the border, targeted narcotraffickers, confronted narcoterrorists, targeted Mexican drug cartel leadership, leveraged the DOJ to indict regional actors, pushed China out of control in the Panama Canal, took out Nicholas Maduro, took control of Venezuela oil production – both for the security of the U.S. and benefit of the Venezuelan people, removed the discounted oil benefit for China and reasserted stability in the Western hemisphere.
Then, with all that in place, he turned toward Iran…. but, proactively planned for a ‘Shield of the Americas Summit’ before the Iran operation began and scheduled it while Operation Epic Fury continues.
Jumpin’ ju-ju bones. That outline and timeline is not supposition; it is what took place.
And, yeah, we just watched “interim” Venezuela President Delcy Rodriquez react to what she is witnessing happening all around her.
Accepting all of this, I would not be in the least surprised to see President Rodriquez in Doral this weekend.
[SOURCE]
This my friends, is a level of strategic boss maneuvering beyond anything we have ever witnessed before.
[…] – “Interior Secretary Doug Burgum landed in Venezuela on Wednesday to begin talks about a potential rare earth minerals partnership, just weeks after the U.S. arrested former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
FOX Business exclusively joined Burgum on the trip. President Donald Trump‘s administration views Venezuela’s untapped resources as a potential alternative to relying on China for critical minerals, FOX Business has learned.
While in Venezuela, Burgum will also help expand the relationship between U.S. oil companies and the Venezuelan government. The secretary will meet with the current Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez to continue the growing relationship between the two countries.
Burgum is the first member of Trump’s Cabinet to leave the country since the U.S. launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran on Saturday.” (read more)
WOW!
Things looking up! Thank you POTUS!
SD your writing
Sends a tingle down my spine!! Seriously. Uplifting our spirits sir! Thanks a ton…..of gold!
Still waiting for the Epic Fury against The Swamp that voting for Trump was supposed to drain….and waiting…and waiting…
Meanwhile, your cheese has been moved.
Now that is funny …..
You apparently haven’t grasped the opposition he is fighting. Have you renewed you CofC membership yet this year? Don’t want to be left out on the Lisa Murkowski and John Thune campaign solicitations.
PDJT has pulled the plug of the swamp drain. He now needs to get out the plunger to get everything to go down.
Broom! Fly away on your broom!
Respectfully, I think you are missing the big picture. THIS IS how you deal with the swamp. It is hard to see it up close, paddling in the mangroves. But if one pulls up to 30,000 feet it becomes apparent that the edges are moving. It’s getting smaller.
47’s method is not to “drain” the swamp per se, but to change the focus. Instead of pumping like crazy, prosecuting alligators, 47 is changing the entire landscape surrounding the swamp, leaving the swamp as little more than an irrelevant backwater of political grift, passe social wokiness, permanently frustrated ambitions to rule the world, and Trump hate.
The swamp, my dear sir, is rapidly being morphed into an old man sitting on the porch wondering where his world went and yelling “get off my grass.”
Yup.
Sort of like starving a cancer.
If you don’t feed it, it will shrink.
Great analogy, Trapper! I can hear my dad now, “get your bikes off my grass!”
Well said…
Great take thanks!
…at this rate it won’t be a swamp much longer…more like an evaporating pool of stagnant filth…glimmering with those strangely luminescent rainbow colors you see on the carcass of a dead fish rotting in the moonlight…
…no doubt, genuine satanic evil will be part of life on earth until LORD Christ drops the Final Big Hammer…until then, men like Donald J Trump and those who support him will serve to highlight the evil…when evil rises they will cut the heads off those snakes…
P.S. President Trump should refrain from referring to those who handled Biden’s presidency as “idiots & eggheads.” They are evil. They are evil, darkly intelligent, evil servants of the Evil One, Satan. Call them what they are: evil.
‘He who laughs last, laughs best.’
– Anonymous
Hold your water, Buddy; we’re winning.
I am as well and as frustrated as others – I GIVE HIM A PASS (but none to the others – we should channel our distaste to the others – and of course the Trumpo Haters)
Look at what Sundance lays out – each of these is more than presidents have done in a complete term!
President Trump proactively secured the border, targeted narcotraffickers, confronted narcoterrorists, targeted Mexican drug cartel leadership, leveraged the DOJ to indict regional actors, pushed China out of control in the Panama Canal, took out Nicholas Maduro, took control of Venezuela oil production – both for the security of the U.S. and benefit of the Venezuelan people, removed the discounted oil benefit for China and reasserted stability in the Western hemisphere.
Then, with all that in place, he turned toward Iran…. but, proactively planned for a ‘Shield of the Americas Summit’ before the Iran operation began and scheduled it while Operation Epic Fury continues.
Jumpin’ ju-ju bones. That outline and timeline is not supposition; it is what took place.
And 27 people upvoted this. Do some of you actually ever read what Sundance posts here? It’s called prepping the battlefield and the enemy is China.
We’re PRAISING THE LORD ALMIGHTY for these Amazing Happenings!
” ‘Not by might nor by power, but by MY SPIRIT,’ says THE LORD ALMIGHTY.'”
Zechariah 4:6 (NIV)
AMEN, AMEN, & AMEN
Continued BLESSINGS
Amen to that, junebug.
I do not trust Delcy Rodriguez or her brother Jorge. They are snakes. They are devout socialists. They are playing the game with DJT since they know his time will run out. Their father was a rebellious socialist who was captured, tortured, and killed in 1970’s by Carlos Andres Perez. He nationalized oil companies in 1976 as well. When he became president again, in Feb 1992, Hugo Chavez tried an unsuccessful coup to oust him.
When it came time later in 2003 after Chavez had been elected and the population wanted him out, he dragged his feet for a year to hold the recall vote. He contracted with a small Venezuelan company named Smartmatic with offices in Sunnyvale CA and Boca Ratón FL to manufacture the computerized voting systems, hardware and especially software. Delcy’s boyfriend, Anzola, was the cofounder of Smartmatic. Jorge Rodriguez was head of Chavez’s National Election Council.
Smartmatic machines flipped the vote for Chavez and Jimmy Carter was there to sanction the vote for him. Later, Anzola said openly that there were flaws in the software. Speculation was that it was a payment for services issue. Anzola was in a plane crash shortly after takeoff, taken to the hospital, visited by Delcy, Jorge and Diosdado Cabello, Chavez’s right hand man an narco trafficker. Anzola died during that visit.
I could go on but the Rodriguez’s are evil people but smart and kno how to manipulate people. Maria Corina Machado knows this and must have advised MR and DJT. Hold your friends close and your enemies closer.
4D chesssss
Let’s hope JD and Marco can carry the torch and outlast the socialists there, after 2028
Needs to be a lot sooner, still midnight whiskaways going on down there courtesy of Diosdado & Co…..Delcys Stepfather was The Jackal
Amen Amen
Thank you for the background. I commented below about all the talk of Rodriguez and her brother being leaders of Cartel de Los Soles before and near the time of Maduro’s arrest. Suddenly, she’s being touted as the leader who stepped up to save Venezuela.
I hope our cooperation with her is about more than just claiming a win in Venezuela. We have a nasty habit of taking out one bad leader and replacing them with someone worse.
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article314385695.html
Rodriguez is listed behind Maduro on the list of alleged leaders of Cartel de Los Soles on Wikipedia (I know, I know). It is, at a minimum a widespread rumor.
bgtomli~~
She can risk playing the Maduro game if she wants.
My money is on The Best. President. Ever.
Yes–they were bigger Cartel players than Maduro.
But PDT has it.
God bless our leader.
God bless our country.
God bless our hemisphere! ❤️🙏
It amazes me how easily people fall into the trap 🪤 that there is no plan in place. Donald Trump is not a caricature. He is a highly intelligent, patriotic strategist.
❤️🤍💙
MNN BREAKING…
* JUDGE BOASBERG RULES THAT NICOLAS MADURO MUST BE TURNED OVER TO THE QUALITY LEARING CENTER SO HE CAN RECEIVE THE SAME SOMALI ATISM TREATMENT THAT WORKED SO WELL FOR JOE BIDEN
”I’ll see you in Cogitive Behavioral Therapy class, Nick–oh, and Hunter asked if you could front him an eight-ball until he sells some more artwork.”
Well said. 😎
President Trump just got another new title. BOTH (Boss of the Hemisphere)😁
BOTH GOAT!
That language is unnecessary.
Besides, you meant asshoe.
Ahhh….so?
He can use whatever language he wants….sheesh.
I tell him not to say it and then i say the same thing–just a joke, Paul.
“One if by land, two if by sea, 81 million if by Fox’s Decision Desk!”
May not be necessary but is true and funny.
Trump officials broker massive U.S.-Venezuela gold deal
The gold deal requires state-owned company Minerven to furnish 650 to 1,000 kilos of Gold Dore bars to the commodities trader Trafigura, according to one of the sources.
The contract calls for 98% final gold content, the source said.Trafigura will shepherd the gold to U.S. refineries under a separate arrangement with the U.S. government, that source said.U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who arrived in Venezuela Wednesday to discuss oil and mineral opportunities, helped shepherd the gold contract.
https://archive.ph/1ZHhP#selection-379.6-379.62
Hmmm…
Wouldn’t it be lovely if President Trump might edge us towards a gold standard?
We didn’t invade Venezuela. The rest was accurate.
Pretty strong rhetoric.
But spot on.
The truth is powerful.
I know he wishes he had another 20 years to live. The next president is going to be living in a huge shadow. If he is smart, he will have Trump play a huge part in the future after he can’t run again.
I see serious physical deterioration in Trump in the last few years. Not surprising for a man who has burnt the candle at both ends his entire adult life and basically eats like crap
I hope he can be hale and hearty til 1929 .. but I dont think he will live very long into the 2030’s. And he won’t be able to play this role you want for very long
If he takes enough golf outings, he can make it to 2040s 😉
Surprised not to see Guatemala.
No Brazil
ruh roh
Brazil is BRICS.. LULA da Silva is still waiting his marching orders from China.
Our President should have the support of 99.9% of the American people! It is truly sad that the Left is so easily brainwashed and manipulated that they can’t see the forest for the trees. Thank you Sundance too, for giving us all a little glimmer of what is behind the curtain, so we can more fully appreciate our great POTUS Trump!
My favorite words of the day……… “Shield of the Americas Summit.”
I’d like to hear Noem’s personal, ‘unshielded’ remarks on her position change…..seems like a vital position to me., especially given the critical nature of the new assignment.
What an amazing 15 months of work!!!
And it’s why the paid antagonists are in rage mode while Congress’s Uniparty critters clutch their pearls.
Meanwhile, they still refuse to pass the SaveAct…..they are telling us who they are and we still have fellow Americans buying the BS propoganda by the MSM talking heads.
You could tell Rodriguez was genuinely happy and excited.
Gloomy day—as I’m reading this article, the sun breaks thru the clouds and shines thru my east window—sure does portend better days. Thanks for the article, Sundance.
Dang!
I cannot keep up with reading about all that President Trump does, so I cannot begin to imagine what it would be like to actually do the work he does — and I’m 10 years younger than he is.
Super groovy, all of it.
President Trump, GOAT.
I had to mow the lawn and haven’t seen the news yet, have the surviving Mullahs picked another replacement for AyahaToeTag Khamenei?
Now it is time to secure the vote to ensure the dems do not take congress, give Americans economic hope!
Again……..what a Great President we have…..God Bless him and keep him safe and healthy through all he is doing for not just us…..but all people everywhere!
Even if they don’t realize it…….or like some in our own country….who don’t want it or appreciate it!
Or…..are even against it……of who we could consider to be the enemy within!
Am I right that the gold pin the Interim President of Venezuela is wearing on her lapel is an outline of the nation of Venezuela with neighboring nation Guyana included within it’s borders? This has been a ploy by Venezuela to claim this oil-rich nation as it’s own. Is this being done on purpose in front of the American delegation and the media cameras?
From Prudhoe Bay to Tierra del Fuego, let’s create a shield around everyone, cut American drug use, destroy the cartels, and create a viable middle class in every country. However each country wants that to look like!
Thank you Sundance! You always bring three the big picture into focus.
What does all this mean for Cuba? Just wondering?
The man is a genius. Offer freedom instead tyranny. Jobs instead of starvation. Hope instead of despair.
Takes the gold Maduro stole from the Venezuelans and uses it to help them rebuild the economy. I pray the world appreciates this man.
Wonder where is the “I didn’t vote for this” crowd!!
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It’s too bad most Americans only hear what a reckless, discombobulated idiot Trump from their news sources.
That said, there was a lot of talk before and after the Maduro arrest about Delcy Rodriguez and her brother being leaders of the largest drug cartel in the Americas and being Maduro’s puppet-masters. Some of that talk was here in the Treehouse. I’m now wondering if those were false rumors or if our Administration is helping more powerful criminals than Maduro run Venezuela to claim a win. Or perhaps for a more noble purpose that isn’t yet apparent.
Hard to believe that was just a month ago! It is astonishing how much the world has changed for the better in that month.
Saw a bit that said that PDJT was going to put Noem in charge of the operation.
Noem will become a special envoy for a new security initiative called the “Shield of the Americas,” which Trump said will be unveiled Saturday.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/03/05/noem-out-republican-senator-in-as-new-homeland-security-secretary/
Yes, I believe those who are snarking about the Noem/Mullen re-assignments are missing the picture.
I wouldn’t count Noem out at this point.
A3C part of the strengthen Americas…
Unreal.
No wonder they tried to kill him.
PDJT is the most “radical” President since Jackson.
Shades of Teddy Roosevelt
Don’t forget to add into the Hemispheric Boss Moves timeline the upcoming expiration of USMCA and renegotiation as separate bilateral agreements.
Also the separation of Greenland from Europe’s sphere over to North America where it belongs.
Also the tightening choke-hold over Cuba’s regime.
Considering that the majority of the ‘western hemisphere’ is Spanish speaking, the appointment of Marco Rubio becomes even more fortuitous.
What about the ,
SNOW MEXICANS ?
(Canada 🇨🇦👀)
God Bless Donald Trump!