The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.
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As it was, over on Comedy Central, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart warned of potential long-term negative consequences, “Look, no one knows how this is going to work out. But based on the United States's track record, my guess is, we are going to be really happy about it for a couple of weeks, and then 30 years from now, there will be a Venezuelan leftist revolution, and the new government will point to this moment as the reason our embassy there is on fire, and it will absolutely ruin a Democrat's presidency. Generally, that's how this shit works.”
That would be easier to take seriously if Chavismo wasn’t already a leftist ideology. Still, Stewart would later welcome Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly to the program and, after lamenting his censure, lamented Democrats won’t do anything about it.
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. steve malzberg
