A reporter from Venezuela did not mince words when President Trump asked how the people of her home country are doing, saying things in the South American nation are “pretty bad.”
Taking a final question during a press conference in New York City, Trump called on a woman from VPI TV, based in Caracas. “Wow,” Trump said when he learned where she was from. “How are you doing over there?”
“Pretty bad,” the woman replied. “Our situation is pretty bad. But we are fighting.”
Trump agreed, saying Venezuela was “one of the great countries and one of the richest countries not so long ago, 15 years ago. It’s incredible.”
He later offered Venezuela as an example of the ruin that socialism can bring upon a nation, and asserted the importance of avoiding such a fate for the U.S. “Socialism will never happen in the United States, it can’t happen in the United States.”
Earlier in the same press conference, Trump alleged that the Democratic Party had been overtaken by far-left “socialists,” to whom House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had become subservient amid their push for his impeachment.
