CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins is pointing out the vast discrepancy between President Donald Trump’s promises on the campaign trail and his more recent defense of the U.S. military action in Venezuela.
On Monday’s edition of CNN’s “The Source,” Collins presented side-by-side footage of Trump’s earlier pledges to steer the U.S. clear of foreign entanglements with that of a weekend press briefing in which he defended Saturday’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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“We will stop racing to topple foreign … regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with,” Trump says in one of the throwback clips, which dates back to shortly before he was first elected president in 2016.
He offered similar sentiments while campaigning for the presidency in 2024, as seen in a second clip in which he denounced “stupid foreign wars in countries that you’ve never heard of.”
As Collins points out, Trump also used his press briefing ― which took place Sunday aboard Air Force One ― to threaten the leaders of Mexico and Colombia. He also hinted at a U.S. invasion of Greenland “from the standpoint of national security.”
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Watch a clip of “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” below.