VENEZUELA: “I used to say, and I meant it, but I didn’t know it had such meaning, that we could be a Venezuela too. Venezuela 15 years ago, was a very wealthy country and a very, very wealthy country, prosperous, talked about all over the world, one of the wealthiest and just looked like it had a tremendous future. And then all of a sudden, they went with a different ideology and right, now we send water, we send food, they don’t have anything. They don’t have medicine…
That country is a total disaster. It could happen. It could happen, because if you look at some of these people that you see with the storefronts and breaking down and the riots and everything that’s going on, it’s the same ideology. That’s what happened with Venezuela. One day it was gone, it was just gone. And so, it could happen here.”
-Donald Trump via Fox Business, “Trump holds ‘Latinos for Trump’ roundtable in Florida,” YouTube.com, Sep. 25, 2020