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Trump's old 'can't believe we left Iraq without oil' post surfaces after Maduro captured
short by Shalini ojha / on Sunday, 4 January, 2026
An old X (formerly Twitter) post by US President Donald Trump, reading "I still can't believe we left Iraq without the oil", has surfaced after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was captured by US military. The X post is dated January 24, 2013. Trump announced that major US oil companies would move into Venezuela, which has the world's largest oil reserves.