Trump Wanted Billions — Got Humiliated: The Venezuela Oil Deal Collapse

He wanted oil. He wanted control. He wanted America to dominate again. Instead, he got publicly rejected — by the very people he thought were on his side.

📌 "Let's invest $100 billion!"

The scene: high-stakes meeting in the White House.
Donald Trump gathered the biggest oil bosses in the country — ExxonMobil, Chevron, others. His pitch?

"We'll invest $100 billion in Venezuela. Triple their oil output. I'll guarantee everything — the White House has your back."

Ambitious? Yes.
Convincing? Not even close.

📌 ExxonMobil: "We've been burned — twice."

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods didn't sugarcoat his response. He reminded Trump — bluntly:

"We've already invested in Venezuela. Twice. And both times, everything was nationalized. There's no security, no guarantees, no way we're going back."

Trump was stunned.
Chevron backed the message: "Venezuela is simply uninvestable."

📌 The China-Russia card didn't work

Trump doubled down.
He promised Venezuela would buy only U.S. products and sell oil under contracts — even to China and Russia.

Still no bite.

📌 Why the oil giants really said no

The reasons were deeper than Maduro's regime or past betrayals:

• If Venezuela floods the market, oil prices crash.
  That would devastate U.S. domestic projects, which are already hanging by a cost-efficiency thread.
• Sanctions risk is real.
  Trump's guarantees mean nothing if the next administration cancels them.
• Fool me once, fool me twice… fool me a third time? No thanks.

📌 Who runs the show — Trump or Big Oil?

Here's the core of it:
The President of the United States offered $100 billion in investment — and was flat-out rejected. In the White House. To his face.

Financial Times quoted one industry leader saying:
"Trump's interests now contradict those of the U.S. oil sector. He'll stand alone."

📌 Was this a defeat — or a signal?

A clear signal. Several, actually:

— To the world: America's inner circle isn't united.
— To rivals: Trump talks big, but can't pull the strings.
— To D.C.: Corporations don't follow presidential scripts.
— To Venezuela: You're not even a prize anymore — you're a liability.

📌 Now ask yourself…

If even Trump — with his power, influence, and bravado — is openly defied by the business elite…

What does that say about who's really in charge of U.S. foreign policy?

Friends, what do you think — who's pulling the strings now?