The Trump PEACE Presidency

GRIFTERS GONNA GRIFT

One of the few arguments Trump supporters have leaned on for years is that he was “anti-war” — a dealmaker, willing to be friends and invite dictators and war criminals into the Oval Office if it meant peace.

So, how’s that working out? Let’s have a look, shall we?

Remember when Trump, while running for reelection, told oil executives to donate a billion dollars to him and promised they’d be “rewarded”? He appears to be offering them the largest oil reserve in the world, Venezuela. Will they take it? Or is this Trump’s new grift? Or both?

As you know, we enjoyed a day and half of 2026 before the United States launched an unprecedented military operation against Venezuela. U.S. forces carried out coordinated air and ground strikes in Caracas and elsewhere, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The operation, dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve, was executed without explicit congressional authorization framed by the administration as a policing action, a law enforcement operation, rather than a declared act of war.

If this were truly a law-enforcement-style arrest, the mission would be limited to:

· Apprehending Nicolás Maduro (and any accomplices)

· Bringing them to U.S. custody

· Returning control of the Venezuelan government to its legitimate domestic authorities. i.e. The true winners of the 2024 elections.

That is not what’s happening here.

Trump has publicly expanded the mission far beyond arrest, saying the U.S. may oversee governance and consider access to Venezuela’s oil resources for “stabilization” and “reconstruction.” That’s not stabilization. That’s regime management—the soft term for installing or steering a puppet government.

It’s very similar to what we did in Iraq when we named L. Paul Bremmer Head of the “Iraqi Provisional Authority,” a Viceroy. He dismantled the elite Republican Guard and the rest of the military and fired everyone in the Ba’ath party. That created a large resistance movement that eventually became ISIS. Today, Marco Rubio was named Venezuelan Viceroy. I shit you not.

So, here we go again. Government and oil are on the table. ISIS—and history—remind us how that experiment ends.

The problem, as history keeps reminding us, is that resistance to occupation and smash-and-grab economics is inevitable. This style of “deal-making” doesn’t work, largely because American companies don’t want to operate in active war zones. Iraq proved that. Afghanistan proved that. Venezuela will prove that.

Even now, Big Oil is hedging. Executives have floated the idea of sending teams to Venezuela in March — two months from now — a clear sign they have no idea what “next steps” look like, or whether stability will exist at all.

Let’s be clear: this is not about democracy or helping the Venezuelan people. I wish it were. This is might-makes-right politics — expanding American corporate power into one of the world’s deepest oil reserves. And, as always, Trump won’t be doing this for free. He wants something. Actually, he wants everything. I’ll explain.

For Trump, this isn’t just about drilling, refining, or export kickbacks. It’s about the power of currency.

Oil has been trading in petrodollars since Henry Kissinger engineered the system decades ago. Recent reports indicate that Venezuela and China shifted away from US dollar payments for oil and began settling oil purchases in Chinese Renminbi (Chinese Yuan), Euros and Rubles.

Undermining or destabilizing the Petrodollar system weakens global demand for the U.S. dollar itself. The Petrodollar system is why the dollar is “the world’s currency.”

Saddam, Gaddafi, and now Maduro tried to trade oil in Euros, Dinars, and Chinese Yuan. Look at what happened to them!

History shows that such moves constitute a red line for the United States.

But, this time, something is different. Yeah, you guessed it. Trump. You know why it’s different? Remember what Trump owns. Stablecoin, crypto, “alternative currency.” A new way to pay for oil.

Dictators have been pursuing a de-dollarization of the world’s currency for years. It hasn’t gone well for them. America has obliterated their countries. But now China and Russia are paying for oil in anything but dollars, organizing (BRICS) in favor of a multipolar currency system.

Trump isn’t just trying to outsmart the authoritarian world leaders organizing for a multipolar currency system. Trump wants de-dollarization because Trump wants what HE OWNS to be the world’s currency.

Here’s a way he can try to do that:

If Trump can create a political vacuum in Venezuela, dollar-backed stablecoins could become the new oil-trading tool — fast, opaque, and largely invisible to traditional banks. That flexibility lets tech billionaires, Trump’s inner circle, and the Trump family skim profits and steer wealth in ways normal oversight would catch. In other words, the alignment of crypto and political chaos isn’t accidental — it’s Trump planned chaos as a way to create a new tool for billionaires to steal.

This is not policy we can disagree on; this is a corruption model.

Once again, alignment between billionaires, heads of state, unimaginable wealth, the world’s most lethal military and a vacuum of sovereign authority in an oil rich nation hungry for change.

Right now, much of this is speculation. My speculation, but history suggests one thing clearly: Venezuela should prepare for a long war, not a quick “deal.” Empires that arrive promising order and profit usually leave behind resistance, instability, and wreckage — and call it peace on the way out.

Hey Venezuela meet President Donald J. Trump, The Peace President.