CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins is pointing out the vast discrepancy between President Donald Trump’s promises on the campaign trail and his more recent defense of the U.S. military action in Venezuela.
On Monday’s edition of CNN’s “The Source,” Collins presented side-by-side footage of Trump’s earlier pledges to steer the U.S. clear of foreign entanglements with that of a weekend press briefing in which he defended Saturday’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
“We will stop racing to topple foreign … regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with,” Trump says in one of the throwback clips, which dates back to shortly before he was first elected president in 2016.
He offered similar sentiments while campaigning for the presidency in 2024, as seen in a second clip in which he denounced “stupid foreign wars in countries that you’ve never heard of.”
As Collins points out, Trump also used his press briefing ― which took place Sunday aboard Air Force One ― to threaten the leaders of Mexico and Colombia. He also hinted at a U.S. invasion of Greenland “from the standpoint of national security.”
Watch a clip of “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” below.
“The questions are not ― when it comes to what’s next ― are not just limited to Venezuela, who’s running it, and what the future of that country is going to look like,” Collins pointed out. “We’ve also heard the president threatening several other nations just in the last 48 hours alone.”
The Trump montage aired moments before Collins’ interview with former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The Georgia Republican, who was previously one of Trump’s most stalwart supporters, deemed the president’s latest foreign policy moves “disturbing.”
“We can say thankfully that Maduro has been arrested, we can say we’re happy for the Venezuelan people, but we can also look to all the regime changes before — in Iraq and Libya and Syria — and we said the same things for the people of those countries,” Greene said.
She went on to note: “But then watched those countries fall into turmoil and civil war and we’ve watched the rise of ISIS and terrorism, and we watched U.S. troops remain in those countries for a very long time and many flag-draped coffins come home.”