John Bolton - Venezuela the 51st State - Governor Carney, Call Donald About 52

I woke up this morning thinking Donald Trump just made Venezuela the 51st state. Too bad, Canada, you had your chance. Happy New Year! - John Rocha Today's Aftershow: - President Trump's decision to remove Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from power - What's going to happen with Venezuela now that Donald Trump has control of the largest oil reserves in the world? - Why Canada should call Mar-A-Lago and ask Donald Trump if Canada can be 52. - Canada should be 52 because you might need the United States before too long because, wow, what a weekend it has been.

00:00:00.000 You know, I woke up this morning thinking Donald Trump just made Venezuela the 51st state.

00:00:06.600 Too bad, Canada. You had your chance.

00:00:12.080 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 345 AM, Sunday, January the 4th. I hope you're having a

00:00:17.460 great start to your Sunday, a great weekend, and a great start to your new year as well. Here with

00:00:22.480 the big blue mug of coffee this morning. I appreciate you being here. I really do.

00:00:26.800 And I woke up this morning. I'm chuckling a little bit because you almost have to laugh.

00:00:32.640 I'm chuckling this morning because at 2, 2.30, I'm looking at the news, which is dominated right now

00:00:37.940 by what happened with Donald Trump, the American military, and Venezuela. Just astounding.

00:00:44.180 And how things have changed. And I'm laying there around 2.30 thinking, you know what? Donald Trump

00:00:49.580 just made Venezuela the 51st state. That's what I was thinking this morning. And I was thinking,

00:00:56.400 you know, maybe, maybe Canada, not Alberta. I still want to become independent. Okay. I still

00:01:02.200 want an independent country. I think we can do better by ourselves. But maybe Canada should be

00:01:06.320 on the phone with Mar-a-Lago today asking Donald Trump if Canada can be 52 because you might need

00:01:12.960 the United States before too long because, wow, what a weekend it has been. It's just think of this.

00:01:19.620 This article ran just on December the 31st in Al Jazeera. U.S. imposes more sanctions on tankers

00:01:28.820 transporting Venezuelan oil. The sanctions come amid President Trump's pressure campaign that

00:01:33.560 critics say is aimed at toppling Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro. And now apparently he's in New York

00:01:39.160 City in chains with his wife after being hauled out of their bed the other night, pretty much without

00:01:44.040 bloodshed and transported to the United States of America. It's astounding. This has happened

00:01:48.600 in just a couple of days. Now, for the most part, people are saying this is a good thing.

00:01:54.860 There's a communist dictator running Venezuela. The people there are being treated very poorly

00:02:00.460 because that's what happens when you get socialist communist country. Other than people like

00:02:04.280 Momdani, who's the mayor of New York City, who's a communist himself and wants to turn New York into

00:02:10.140 Venezuela. Most people think this is a pretty good thing. He's freed up millions of Venezuelans from 1.00

00:02:15.520 communist rule. But now Donald Trump has control of the largest oil reserves in the world. What does

00:02:22.980 this mean for Canada and my province of Alberta right now? And no doubt he's surely pissed off the

00:02:27.880 Russians and the Chinese who have been feeding the economy and Maduro to get access to their oil.

00:02:34.060 They no longer have access to that. And here's some questions for you. What happens next? Now,

00:02:42.920 Warren Kinsella, great article in the Toronto Sun today. I'll put a link in the description to all

00:02:48.300 of these stories. Let me find it here for you. There you go. Trump's decision to capture of Maduro,

00:02:52.500 the right move. But now what? Having now efficiently removed the evil despot from power, what is Trump

00:02:57.960 going to do with Venezuela? Well, you know what he's going to do with Venezuela? Look at this.

00:03:02.740 This is in Politico. And this ran yesterday. Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies

00:03:09.720 on Venezuela. The White House has told companies they must rebuild Venezuela's crude pumping

00:03:14.540 infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas. So this oil is going to end up

00:03:21.780 on the market. They're only pumping apparently about 30% of what they can right now. And if all that oil

00:03:27.600 ends up on the market, Donald Trump's going to ship this stuff around the world and likely take a lot of

00:03:32.560 it to the United States, why would he need Alberta anymore?

00:03:40.540 Meanwhile, we've got a leader of this country who's concerned about climate change. Do you think

00:03:45.800 Donald Trump gives a damn about climate change now that he has control of the largest oil reserves in

00:03:52.680 the world? This article right here, Lori Goldstein published yesterday, Canada's climate targets were

00:04:00.000 always a fantasy. Prime Minister Mark Carney has correctly admitted that the federal government

00:04:05.660 will not achieve its 2030 and 2035 industrial greenhouse gas emission targets under the climate

00:04:11.140 strategy of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. We have too much regulation, not enough action.

00:04:16.140 Carney wants more action on this.

00:04:18.020 Costing federal taxpayers more than $200 billion and funding 149 government programs administered by 13

00:04:30.600 federal departments, the plan was expected to achieve at best half of its promised emission cuts.

00:04:35.760 And all they care about is cuts to emissions. What is this actually doing for the environment?

00:04:39.940 But here's the thing, folks. How much oil is the United States going to need from Alberta when it's

00:04:45.940 got its own oil reserves, it looks now, in Venezuela? This is going to have a massive impact on Alberta's

00:04:51.660 oil and our oil prices. And the people out east who have been sitting out there collecting money from

00:04:57.900 the bank account that is the west might have their bank account cut off. So you might want to call

00:05:02.360 Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and ask if you can be 52.

00:05:08.320 Meanwhile, my province and my premiers had to sign a memorandum of understanding with Mark Carney

00:05:14.460 to try to negotiate perhaps maybe a pipeline to the west coast and pretty soon it might not even matter. 0.91

00:05:20.860 We've been standing around for decades with our dick in our hands talking about climate change and the 0.91

00:05:25.840 whole world has been turned upside down. What do you think is going to happen when the largest oil 0.86

00:05:29.780 reserves end up on the market? Oil prices will drop, probably devastate the economy here in Alberta

00:05:35.380 because of the dithering of Mark Carney and the Liberals and all of the eco-wackos who are out east. 0.95

00:05:41.660 And what else is going to happen? Emissions are going to go up. What do you expect to happen?

00:05:48.140 Donald Trump is going to unleash the largest oil reserves in the world. They're going to go up.

00:05:53.960 And what have we been preached for years and years here in Canada by people like Mark Carney and the EU

00:05:59.660 and the UN? Don't you think talk like that should end now? And don't you think Canada should be

00:06:09.480 announcing a pipeline today to the west coast and have it built by spring? Because if we don't act

00:06:15.560 fast, the horse is going to be out of the barn. Is the United States going to need Alberta oil when

00:06:23.420 it's got all those reserves in Venezuela? They just seized it over the weekend, folks.

00:06:27.000 Maybe Alberta should just say, Universal Declaration of Independence and leave now 1.00

00:06:31.680 and not go down with the sinking ship. And maybe, Mark,

00:06:36.740 you should get on the horn with Trump and ask him about 52nd State.

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John Bolton - January 04, 2026

Venezuela the 51st State - Governor Carney, Call Donald About 52

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