'His dementia is acting up': Internet skewers Trump for bizarre new 'elections' claim

Donald Trump made a claim about elections in his latest interview that caused the internet to question his mental integrity.

Trump late Thursday night sat down for an interview with Fox News, during which Sean Hannity asked the president whether or not he foresees Venezuela with free and fair elections in the near future.

In what some have called a telling moment, Trump claimed that Venezuela "wouldn't know how to have an election," despite them having one very recently.

"Before we do that, it’s going to take a while. They wouldn’t even know how to have an election. We’re going to rebuild the oil—the oil infrastructure. We’re going to be in charge of it. We’re going to make a lot of money," he said.

This didn't sit well with political observers on social media.

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Former foreign correspondent Roland Ley said, "Not liberation, US colonization."

Former Navy wife Rebecca Clester chimed in with, "T

Sounds like Trump wants to run the country himself, replacing one dictatorship with another. https://t.co/XvWj304CsP
— WarMonitor (@TheWarMonitor) January 9, 2026