{"id":36097,"date":"2026-01-06T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=36097"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:45:35","slug":"trump-appoints-overburdened-marco-rubio-interim-president-of-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/trump-appoints-overburdened-marco-rubio-interim-president-of-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Appoints Overburdened Marco Rubio Interim President Of Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211; Following the U.S. arrest of former Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, President Donald Trump announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been appointed Interim President of Venezuela, effective immediately, in addition to the sixty-nine other positions Marco is currently overseeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked at the list of candidates, and honestly, none of them have Marco\u2019s energy,&#8221; Trump told reporters inside of the Oval Office, with Rubio dressed in a Venezuelan uniform standing behind him. &#8220;Marco is fantastic. He\u2019s already doing the State Department, he\u2019s doing the National Security thing, he\u2019s running the Archives, which is a mess, by the way, very dusty, he&#8217;s overseeing ten other departments after I fired the directors, and now he\u2019s going to run Venezuela. Just until we find a guy. Maybe two weeks. Maybe four years. We\u2019ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/trump-orders-airstrikes-on-nigeria-after-finally-snapping-over-nigerian-scam-emails\/\">Trump<\/a> went on to say that Marco Rubio will also be in charge of the Department of Agriculture, the NASA budget, will assist in Homeland Security, given ICE detail, and will stand in for the president whenever he needs a body double.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re also considering removing the leaders of Cuba, Columbia, and Brazil for security reasons,&#8221; Trump added as Rubio trembled. &#8220;And we don\u2019t want to rush into finding new leaders until we find the right ones. Until then, we&#8217;ll probably have Marco run those countries in the meantime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to help manage the immense workload, the White House has also appointed Rubio as his own deputy, aide, secretary, and housekeeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211; Following the U.S. arrest of former Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, President Donald Trump announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been appointed Interim President of Venezuela, effective immediately, in addition to the sixty-nine other positions Marco is currently overseeing. &#8220;I looked at the list of candidates, and honestly, none of them have Marco\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,1113],"class_list":["post-36097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-rated-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}