Althouse: "To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY."

November 29, 2025

"To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY."

Writes Donald J. Trump, on X, thanking us for our attention to this matter.

58 comments:

The Vault Dweller said...: I hope we don't invade Venezuela.; 11/29/25, 8:16 AM
rehajm said...: I could be wrong but I think he’s implying closing the airspace for those things means opening the airspace to drop other things?; 11/29/25, 8:19 AM
Freder Frederson said...: Isn't blockading a country's airspace (and ports for that matter) an act of war? Why hasn't he asked Congress for a war declaration, or at least an AUMF?; 11/29/25, 8:20 AM
Dave Begley said...: Fair warning.; 11/29/25, 8:22 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Nice to see him totally embrace the “Speak softly” part of the old maxim.; 11/29/25, 8:23 AM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: Jeez. Not again.; 11/29/25, 8:26 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Failing in his attempts to win the Nobel Peace Price by handing of Ukraine to Russia, Trump is going for the unusual strategy of starting a war to receive it.

Today he also pardoned the former president of Honduras who was jailed for 45 years for drug trafficking.

“The US president said Hernández had been "treated very harshly and unfairly" in a social media post announcing the move on Friday. Hernández was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import 400 tons cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.”

And yet he pretends this Venezuela thing is about drugs.

They really take their voters for complete dummies… And looking at the evidence so far, seemingly with good reason.

“It is a bold strategy, Cotton, lets see if it pays off for him.”; 11/29/25, 8:27 AM
Mr. Majestyk said...: "I hope we don't invade Venezuela"

If we do invade Venezuela, I hope he doesn't make it the 51st state. That would mess things up. Canada should be #51, Greenland should be #52, and THEN Venezuela can be #53.

Okay, everyone calm down. I'm just kidding.; 11/29/25, 8:27 AM
narciso said...: What exactly would the possums deliberate on,; 11/29/25, 8:28 AM
narciso said...: They forget their old scripts
https://t.co/lvf2Myr9GP; 11/29/25, 8:32 AM
Peachy said...: All bad things lead to the American Democratic Biden party.
coke up their noses and dirty money in their pockets.
Why they mad.; 11/29/25, 8:32 AM
The Vault Dweller said...: "Kakistocracy said...
Failing in his attempts to win the Nobel Peace Price"

When the Nobel committee awarded the most recent Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, that was the "International Community" saying Venezuela and the Maduro regime are on the outs.; 11/29/25, 8:32 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: “Stabroek Block”; 11/29/25, 8:32 AM
Mary Beth said...: Okay, everyone calm down. I'm just kidding.
11/29/25, 8:27 AM

I'm glad you included that so I didn't have to say that they'll need to become territories first. No one gets to go straight to statehood, especially Canadia.; 11/29/25, 8:34 AM
Peachy said...: Kak-a-phony does not remember that María Corina Machado - accepted the award and dedicated it to one... President Donald Trump.; 11/29/25, 8:39 AM
Kakistocracy said...: More distractions away from the Epstein scandal.; 11/29/25, 8:40 AM
Peachy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/29/25, 8:41 AM
Peachy said...: Hillary can take out Kaddafi... which caused regional destabilization.
But if we nudge the removal of a disgraced South American Socialist DICTATOR who impoverished his nation and who is essentially a destabilizing drug lord... -
the American left cry "no fair and boo hoo!"; 11/29/25, 8:42 AM
Jaq said...: Wow, you mean they shut down airspace when combat operations are underway? Whodathunkit? I thought that the proper procedure was to try any soldiers who are under the stress of the other side trying to kill them with aircraft, in absentia, and convict them then of war crimes! What will they think of next?; 11/29/25, 8:42 AM
Jaq said...: Trump should win the Nobel Peace prize for kicking MI-6 out of Bosnia, where they were attempting to start a civil war that was guaranteed to drag NATO and Russia into it, being on Russia's border.

Instead, the "Nobel Peace Prize" goes to a woman who was a "democracy fellow" at a Yale institute where future quislings are trained, and this winner of the "peace prize" has called for war against her own country.; 11/29/25, 8:46 AM
Cappy said...: If Tucker loves Maduro so much he can move there and defend the worker's state.; 11/29/25, 8:47 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Big problem for the Democrats' election strategy because they don't really think their victory is about better messaging.; 11/29/25, 8:49 AM
Jaq said...: I think that, like the Nobel Prize in literature, which was not awarded to Mark Twain or Philip Roth, not winning it is the greater distinction,; 11/29/25, 8:50 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. Somebody wants a deal ?; 11/29/25, 8:51 AM
Jaq said...: "If Tucker loves Maduro so much he can move there and defend the worker's state."

Right about the time the people baying for blood climb aboard troop ships for the invasion.; 11/29/25, 8:51 AM
Iman said...: Forewarned is foreskinned…; 11/29/25, 8:57 AM
The Vault Dweller said...: "Kakistocracy said...
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. Somebody wants a deal ?"

I've been wondering if Trump is ramping up pressure on Venezuela as a bargaining chip with China. Venezuela trades almost half it's Oil production to China. China has a strong interest in maintaining the status quo in Venezuela. The US attacks on Venezuelan boats in the Gulf are framed as attacking drug traffickers. This airspace closure is also framed as dealing with drug traffickers. Given China's history of the Opium wars and Britain trafficking drugs into China to weaken it, Trump telling China, "I have to do this because I need to protect my people from foreign drug corruption," is rhetorically a very powerful 'because' in negotiating with China. He conceivably get China to bargain more in trade to get the US to relent.; 11/29/25, 8:59 AM
Peachy said...: The Epstein scandal snared a bunch of Democrats.
ooops - Kaka loses again.

Kak tell us why Stacy Plaskett(D) was texting Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing with Trump's ex-lawyer? Tell us why Jeffrey Epstein was telling Plaskett(D) WHAT TO SAY...
'Good girl' - Jeffrey was please he had control over a Democratic - there to harm Trump as much as possible.

Epstein in on Team CORRUPTOCRAT; 11/29/25, 9:02 AM
Bob Boyd said...: The overwhelming US military power that has been assembled will likely prevent a war in Venezuela. Maduro will be shown the door and he will use it. Venezuelan soldiers won't fight and die in a battle they know they can't win only to prop up a greedy dictator and his narco cartel buddies. A new Venezuelan President will be elected in a legit election for a change.
The Cuban government won't last long after that. They're dependent on Venezuela.
Or something else entirely will happen because, unlike 99% of people on the internets, I could be wrong.; 11/29/25, 9:05 AM
Peachy said...: I think Tucker an Bill Kristol should join forces. perhaps some Cheney sprinkles on top.; 11/29/25, 9:06 AM
Peachy said...: Bob Boyd - I really hope you are right.
I've been waiting for the Castro family to burn in hell for decades.; 11/29/25, 9:08 AM
Peachy said...: and; 11/29/25, 9:08 AM
Paul said...: They are brazenly poisoning America with their drugs. Sending boats and makeshift subs as well as planes full of drugs. And the Venezuelan government is part of it.

If that is not a declaration of war, what is?; 11/29/25, 9:09 AM
Beasts of England said...: ’Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world.’

Of extra heavy crude, i.e., garbage.; 11/29/25, 9:11 AM
Aggie said...: "...More distractions away from the Epstein scandal. ..."

You know, it's funny you mentioned that. Just a little while ago, I was reflecting on the tens of thousands of documents that were the first trove of Epstein files, released a few weeks ago now, and since then..... crickets. Haven't gotten around to scanning them, word-searching 'Trump'? Or is the situation worse: Scans reveal all the wrong people being mentioned, and none of the right ones?; 11/29/25, 9:11 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: No Venezuela covets their neighbors’ offshore oil fields and wanted Chinese help acquiring it, hence the sudden invocation of the Donroe Doctrine.; 11/29/25, 9:12 AM
Kevin said...: Isn't blockading a country's airspace (and ports for that matter) an act of war? Why hasn't he asked Congress for a war declaration, or at least an AUMF?

Perhaps because, for now, he's not actively blockading it. We're not overflying the airspace and shooting down anyone who enters.

He's just saying they should act like it's closed, and if they choose to do so, so be it.

Trump is actually smarter than you. It would help your posts if you start with that in mind.; 11/29/25, 9:18 AM
Peachy said...: Hakeem Jeffares(D) begged Epstein for campaign money.
*crickets*; 11/29/25, 9:20 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Paul said...
“They are brazenly poisoning America with their drugs. Sending boats and makeshift subs as well as planes full of drugs. And the Venezuelan government is part of it.

If that is not a declaration of war, what is?”

In the event that legalities matter, trafficking isn’t a declaration of war.

It’s a criminal enterprise, and the U.S. already treats it as such—through federal law, DOJ prosecutions, sanctions, and interdiction operations.

A declaration of war is a legal act made by Congress under Article I of the U.S. Constitution, not a trigger happy egomaniac president or a drunken head of the DOD.

Criminal activity doesn’t automatically give them wartime authority or change the rules of engagement.

If we start calling every criminal act a ‘war,’ then police shootings become ‘acts of war,’ cartel busts become ‘warfare,’ and every agency becomes a combatant. That’s not how the U.S. government defines or authorizes military force.

But once you crown a king and accept him as king, we’ll….here we are.; 11/29/25, 9:32 AM
Achilles said...: "To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY."

This is not a good idea.

He should be going to congress first. Trump is listening to Neocons again.

Neither Rubio nor Vance will not win the general in 2028 if Trump starts a war with Venezuela.

Vance or Rubio will either be primaried out to someone who promises to not start foreign wars or he will lose in the general because millions stay home.; 11/29/25, 9:32 AM
Achilles said...: Bob Boyd said...

The overwhelming US military power that has been assembled will likely prevent a war in Venezuela. Maduro will be shown the door and he will use it.

This isn't how we are supposed to be doing things.

People are upset that the Constitutional process is not being followed.

Congress has a fucking job and they need to do it. They need to stop hiding behind the filibuster bullshit. Trump is going to destroy this movement because he is not making Congress do their job.

I think the Constitution was doomed to fail because of the weakness of men. You can't "emergency action" a hostile move like this. Especially when it is Mexico that is sending most of the drugs, not Venezuela.; 11/29/25, 9:36 AM
rehajm said...: sa·ber-rat·tling: overtly and often exaggeratedly threatening actions or statements (such as verbal threats or ostentatious displays of military power) that are meant to intimidate an enemy by suggesting possible use of force

Thank you Webster…; 11/29/25, 9:37 AM
Achilles said...: Cappy said...

If Tucker loves Maduro so much he can move there and defend the worker's state.

Oh here we go again.

Calling people who don't want the President to start unilateral wars traitors is a really fucking stupid idea unless you are a Democrat that wants to watch over half of MAGA walk away from Trump.; 11/29/25, 9:38 AM
rehajm said...: …or if you prefer a more Trumpian term: locker room!; 11/29/25, 9:39 AM
Achilles said...: Peachy said...

I think Tucker an Bill Kristol should join forces. perhaps some Cheney sprinkles on top.

I absolutely expected this retard to abandon the Constitution at the first chance to start a new war without Congress.

I also expected the dishonest traitor democrat bullshit.; 11/29/25, 9:40 AM
Achilles said...: Dave Begley said...

Fair warning.

For what?; 11/29/25, 9:41 AM
D.D. Driver said...: This is not a good idea.

Part of Trump's allure (even as a hater) was that he really was America First and was the only antidote to the neocon foreign policy. I think he is old and feebleminded and we are getting Bidened again. Tell me when regime change has ever worked out well for American soldiers and the taxpayers who love them.; 11/29/25, 9:43 AM
Freder Frederson said...: He should be going to congress first.

Well, that's a first! Achilles and I agree on something.; 11/29/25, 9:48 AM
Money Manger said...: For an interesting visual, go to the map of current international airline traffic—flights now in the air. As always the airspace over North America is very full; with a big doughnut hole over the country of Venezuela.; 11/29/25, 9:51 AM
narciso said...: Sochins rosneft investment is going to be discounted heavily; 11/29/25, 9:52 AM
Peachy said...: Did Achilles just call Trump a "retard"? cool.; 11/29/25, 9:54 AM
Peachy said...: Achilles asks - "for what?"
You tell us- Trucker-Owens-Fuentes know it all.; 11/29/25, 9:55 AM
Achilles said...: The Vault Dweller said...

I've been wondering if Trump is ramping up pressure on Venezuela as a bargaining chip with China. Venezuela trades almost half it's Oil production to China. China has a strong interest in maintaining the status quo in Venezuela. The US attacks on Venezuelan boats in the Gulf are framed as attacking drug traffickers. This airspace closure is also framed as dealing with drug traffickers. Given China's history of the Opium wars and Britain trafficking drugs into China to weaken it, Trump telling China, "I have to do this because I need to protect my people from foreign drug corruption," is rhetorically a very powerful 'because' in negotiating with China. He conceivably get China to bargain more in trade to get the US to relent.

There is a right way to do this and a wrong way to do this.

I agree that this is what the War Trump has started is all about. It is a good idea. It makes sense to have friendly democratic regimes to our South who aren't shipping discounted Oil to China.

But saying it is about drugs when almost all of the drugs are made in Mexico is not a good plan. Everyone knows that most of the drugs are made in Mexico so everyone knows that this is a pretense.

One of the main problems that people have with democrats is being forced to lie about things like men being women.

Now we are being forced to lie about a pretense for war. This is not how to handle this. Trump is listening to Rubio and the neocons too much. If he just came out and said we want cheaper oil for the US and fuck China and Maduro he would get a lot more support.; 11/29/25, 9:58 AM
Big Mike said...: Well, so much for Trump getting a Nobel Peace Prize.; 11/29/25, 10:01 AM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/29/25, 10:01 AM
Achilles said...: Peachy said...

Did Achilles just call Trump a "retard"? cool.

Everyone on this board knows who the retard is. You can't make a serious argument. Go sit down in a corner somewhere.

Go read the Constitution and look up the part where Congress has an enumerated power to declare war while you are at it.; 11/29/25, 10:01 AM
Ampersand said...: Public support is not optional.; 11/29/25, 10:05 AM
Peachy said...: Achilles - You're the flip side of Inag.; 11/29/25, 10:12 AM