You know Trump did something well when even liberal media outlets cannot deny it. In this case, the editorial board of the Washington Post, an outlet that loves to hate Trump, called the Venezuela operation an ‘unquestionable tactical success.’
Those are amazing words coming from the Post.
This is a newspaper that used to employ Jennifer Rubin, who suffered from a legendary case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Washington Post piece is behind a paywall but FOX News has details:
Washington Post praises Trump’s Venezuela operation as ‘unquestionable tactical success’
The Washington Post editorial board praised President Donald Trump’s military operation in Venezuela as an “unquestionable tactical success” in an editorial Saturday.
“President Donald Trump’s decision to capture [Maduro] on Saturday is one of the boldest moves a president has made in years, and the operation was an unquestionable tactical success,” the board wrote.
The editorial was titled “Justice in Venezuela.”
“The next step is ensuring that this triumph sets Venezuela up for stability rather than chaos,” the piece continued.
The editorial board noted the success proved America’s military and intelligence capabilities remain “second to none,” adding, “This is a major victory for American interests . . .
“Maduro’s removal also sends an important message to tinpot dictators in Latin America and the world: Trump follows through,” the board wrote. “President Joe Biden offered sanctions relief to Venezuela, and Maduro responded to that show of weakness by stealing an election.”
The paper assessed, “Trump offered Maduro several off-ramps. He could have retired and lived a luxury lifestyle in Moscow or Minsk. Instead, he will probably die in prison. It’s an all-time miscalculation.”
Other legacy media outlets are not doing as well on this. ABC News, for example, claimed that this could lead to terror attacks.
NewsBusters reported:
With so little known at the time regarding the overnight U.S. military operations inside Venezuela resulting in the successful capture of dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife (without a single loss of American life), the Saturday morning broadcast network news shows were relatively uneventful on the bias front, except for a few mind-numbingly stupid hot takes.
ABC unsurprisingly contributed the biggest early whopper thanks to a Good Morning America report that speculated without evidence that taking action against a dangerous dictator could trigger terror attacks inside the United States.
Watch the video:
Without evidence, ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ had a segment speculating the U.S. military actions in Venezuela could lead to terror attacks on American soil by drug cartels or anyone angered by Nicholas Maduro’s capture pic.twitter.com/zarQ5I5rXD
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 3, 2026
The media coverage of this in the coming weeks will be something to watch, but they cannot deny that what Trump has done a great thing that will be felt throughout history.
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